Books like West with the Night
12 books with a reading profile close to West with the Night by Beryl Markham. Clear-cut; a moderate read.
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A Moveable Feast
memoir, narrative
Ernest Hemingway recounts his early years as an aspiring writer living in Paris during the 1920s.
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2
O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather
narrative, classic literature
Alexandra Bergson, a Swedish-American immigrant in late nineteenth-century Nebraska, inherits her father’s struggling farm amid a harsh prairie landscape.
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3
The Old Curiosity Shop
narrative, classic literature
Nell Trent lives in a London warehouse filled with dusty antiquities, cared for by her grandfather.
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4
Evangeline
narrative, classic literature
Set in 1755 during the Expulsion of the Acadians, this epic poem follows the separation of two lovers, Evangeline Bellefontaine and Gabriel Lajeunesse.
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5
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
Also clear-cut · narrative, classic literature
This collection centers on Ebenezer Scrooge, a parsimonious financier in Victorian London who views charity as a waste of resources.
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Susan Lenox
narrative, classic literature
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise follows an illegitimate girl born into a rigid Midwestern environment.
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7
The Red Badge of Courage
narrative, classic literature
Henry Fleming is a young Union private during the American Civil War who enlists with romanticized visions of heroic combat.
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8
Hamlet: Screenplay, Introduction And Film Diary
narrative, classic literature
This volume provides the complete shooting script for Kenneth Branagh’s 1996 film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy.
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9
Empire Falls
narrative, classic literature
Miles Roby manages the Empire Grill, a greasy spoon in a decaying Maine logging town owned by the wealthy Whiting family.
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10
My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
narrative, classic literature
Jim Burden moves to the Nebraska frontier to live with his grandparents, where he befriends Ántonia Shimerda, the eldest daughter of Bohemian immigrants.
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Blue Highways
memoir, narrative
After losing his teaching job and his marriage in the same day, William Least Heat-Moon outfitted a Ford Econoline van to navigate the United States exclusively via backroads—the thin blue lines on old Rand McNally maps.
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12
The Enchanted April
narrative, classic literature
Living in the persistent grey of 1920s London, Lotty Wilkins and Rose Arbuthnot answer a classified advertisement for a month-long rental at an Italian castle.
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