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Iginio Ugo Tarchetti · Italian
A landmark Italian psychological novel of obsessive love, illness, beauty, and destructive desire.
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Iginio Ugo Tarchetti · Italian
A landmark Italian psychological novel of obsessive love, illness, beauty, and destructive desire.
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Antonio Fogazzaro · Italian
A major Italian novel of spiritual reform, religious tension, love, and modern Catholic crisis.
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Denis Diderot · French
Un roman-dialogue vif sur hasard, liberté, récit interrompu, amour et philosophie des Lumières.
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Alexandre Dumas · French
Un grand roman historique sur les Valois, les guerres de Religion, le pouvoir et la survie.
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Théophile Gautier · French
Un récit égyptien fastueux mêlant archéologie imaginaire, amour ancien, mystère et exotisme romantique.
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Ramón del Valle-Inclán · Spanish
La obra central del esperpento: Madrid nocturno, pobreza, literatura, política y deformación trágica.
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George Sand · French
Un roman de formation sur violence familiale, amour, éducation morale et transformation intérieure.
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Thomas Love Peacock · English
A witty Gothic satire of melancholy, Romantic excess, literary fashion, and philosophical gloom.
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Camilo Castelo Branco · Portuguese
A Portuguese romantic novel of wealth, conscience, suffering, religious feeling, and moral redemption.
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Iginio Ugo Tarchetti · Italian
Racconti scapigliati di inquietudine, allucinazione, morte, desiderio e fantastico nero.
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Shen Fu · Italian
Una versione italiana del memoir cinese su amore coniugale, vita quotidiana, viaggi e memoria.
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Ramón del Valle-Inclán · Spanish
A Spanish modernist novella of memory, desire, decline, and the decadent voice of the Marqués de Bradomín.
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Charlotte Lennox · English
A comic novel about romance reading, imagination, gender expectations, and social misunderstanding.
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Henry Mackenzie · English
A classic sentimental novel about sympathy, moral feeling, poverty, illness, and social vulnerability.
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Matthew Gregory Lewis · English
A sensational Gothic novel of temptation, secrecy, supernatural terror, and moral collapse.
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Elizabeth Gaskell · English
Gaskell’s social novel confronts gender judgment, work, motherhood, religious conscience, and Victorian respectability.
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Robert Louis Stevenson · English
A swift historical adventure of disguise, rebellion, revenge, and divided loyalties during the Wars of the Roses.
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William Makepeace Thackeray · English
Thackeray’s historical novel follows Henry Esmond through family secrets, political conflict, war, and the age of Queen Anne.
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William Makepeace Thackeray · English
A satirical rise-and-fall narrative of an Irish adventurer chasing fortune, marriage, rank, and European glamour.
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Robert Louis Stevenson · English
Stevenson’s dark Scottish romance follows rival brothers, Jacobite intrigue, exile, piracy, and corrosive family obsession.
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James Fenimore Cooper · English
Cooper’s frontier novel follows Templeton, Judge Temple, Natty Bumppo, and conflicts over land, law, settlement, and wilderness.
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Thomas Hardy · English
Hardy’s woodland novel studies love, class, marriage, rural labor, and emotional loss in the Wessex village of Little Hintock.
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Virginia Woolf · Portuguese
Virginia Woolf’s modernist study of family, art, grief, memory, and time in a Portuguese BooksWhale edition.
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Adalbert Stifter · German
Stifter’s Alpine novella follows two children lost in snow between mountain villages, turning a simple journey into a luminous study of nature, fear, faith, and communal rescue.