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Books like The Professor

12 books with a reading profile close to The Professor by Charlotte Brontë. Thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

Agnes Grey

by Anne Brontë

Also thought-provoking · romance, literary

Agnes Grey follows the daughter of an impoverished clergyman who seeks financial independence by working as a governess for landed families.
2

Paul and Virginia

by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

Also thought-provoking · romance, literary

Bernardin de Saint-Pierre narrates the lives of two children raised according to the laws of nature on the remote island of Mauritius.
3

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

romance, literary

Catherine Morland, a sheltered seventeen-year-old with a vivid imagination fueled by Gothic novels, travels to Bath under the chaperonage of the Allen family.
4

Emma

by Jane Austen

romance, literary

Emma Woodhouse is a wealthy, restless young woman living in the village of Highbury who occupies her time by orchestrating the romantic lives of her neighbors.
5

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

Also thought-provoking · romance, literary

In the aftermath of a successful military campaign, the Prince of Aragon and his soldiers visit the estate of Leonato in Messina.
6

Ruy Blas

by Victor Hugo

Also thought-provoking · romance, literary

In seventeenth-century Spain, Don Salluste de Bazan seeks revenge against Queen Maria de Neubourg after she exiles him for refusing to marry a lady-in-waiting.
7

Lady Chatterley’s Lover

by D.H. Lawrence

Also thought-provoking · romance, literary

Constance Chatterley is a young woman married to Clifford, a baronet paralyzed from the waist down in the First World War.
8

The Painted Veil

by W. Somerset Maugham

Also thought-provoking · romance, literary

In 1920s Hong Kong, Kitty Fane enters a loveless marriage with Walter, a reserved bacteriologist, to escape her demanding mother.
9

Corinne

by Germaine de Staël, Isabel Hill

Also thought-provoking · romance, literary

Set against the backdrop of an eighteenth-century Grand Tour, this novel centers on the intense intellectual and emotional connection between Lord Oswald Nelvil, a grieving Scottish aristocrat, and Corinne, a celebrated…
10

La dame aux camélias

by Alexandre Dumas fils

romance, literary

Set in mid-19th-century Paris, this novel recounts the tragic affair between Armand Duval, a young bourgeois lawyer, and Marguerite Gautier, a high-class courtesan known for her constant companion camellias.
11

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

Also thought-provoking · romance, literary

Frederic Henry, an American paramedic serving with the Italian army during World War I, experiences the collapse of the front following the retreat from Caporetto.
12

Maurice

by E.M. Forster

Also thought-provoking · romance, literary

Maurice Hall is a middle-class young man who goes to Cambridge, where he falls in love with Clive Durham, a fellow student.

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