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A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen
13 days •
ⓘ 1879 • Arriving “like a bomb” in Victorian society, Ibsen’s play portrays the hypocrisy of marriage and celebrates individuality over the prescribed roles society hands down.
The Life of Jesus
Ernest Renan
27 days •
ⓘ 1863 • Renan's controversial historical account of Jesus.
The Red and the Black
Stendhal
60 days •
ⓘ 1830 • Driven to leave his humble beginnings behind, Julien Sorel finds the only way to rise in society's ranks is through deceit, hypocrisy, and crime.
The Revolt of the Angels
Anatole France
27 days •
ⓘ 1914 • The angel Arcade, fallen and confined to Earth, is driven to revolution by love.
Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser
61 days •
ⓘ 1900 • Seeking her fortune and the realization of her American Dream, Caroline Meeber leaves her rural home for Chicago. The big city threatens to destroy both her and those around her.
Swann's Way
Marcel Proust
61 days •
ⓘ 1913 • The first volume in Proust's In Search of Lost Time. An apparently fragmented narrative, bouncing between an older narrator and his younger self as he discusses sleep, love, and memory.
Victory
Joseph Conrad
44 days •
ⓘ 1915 • Axel Heyst, adrift in Indonesia, cuts himself off from humanity, but soon finds his life turned upside down when he rescues a woman, Lena, from the evil Schomberg.
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
235 days •
ⓘ 1869 • Follow the fates and fortunes of five Russian families as they live through the violence and upheaval of Napoleon's invasion in this epic masterpiece.
Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson
25 days •
ⓘ 1919 • A cycle of stories set in a small pre-industrial town. The central figure is reporter George Willard who gains the confidence of the residents.
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