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A Farewell to Arms
Frederic loves Catherine in Italy until desertion leads to Switzerland and stillbirth.
2,502-word summary · 11 min read
classics + romance
17 books tagged both “classics” and “romance”.
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Mansfield Park
Fanny Price loves Edmund amid Crawfords theatricals at Mansfield.
2,389-word summary · 11 min read
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Janie Crawford tells Pheoby about Eatonville life with Logan Killicks, Joe Starks called Jody, and Tea Cake.
2,230-word summary · 10 min read
The Sun Also Rises
Jake Barnes drifts through Paris bars and Pamplona bullfights with Brett Ashley and a wounded generation.
3,187-word summary · 14 min read
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Surgeon Tomas loves Tereza yet keeps mistresses, while artist Sabina and professor Franz test freedom around the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague.
2,427-word summary · 11 min read
Love in the Time of Cholera
Florentino waits fifty years for Fermina: youth letters, a marriage to Urbino, hundreds of affairs, and a river trip where old love gets a last hearing.
2,204-word summary · 10 min read
Great Expectations
Orphan Pip chases wealth and Estella through London fog and prison ships.
2,117-word summary · 9 min read
Persuasion
Anne Elliot, twenty-seven and unmarried, meets the sailor she once refused when his fortunes rise.
2,063-word summary · 9 min read
Rebecca
A shy bride at Manderley learns she competes with Maxim's perfect dead wife Rebecca.
2,008-word summary · 9 min read
Emma
Emma Woodhouse matchmakes Harriet Smith in Highbury while missing Mr Knightley beside her.
3,369-word summary · 15 min read
Gone with the Wind
Scarlett O'Hara schemes through the Civil War and Reconstruction, from Tara to burning Atlanta, chasing Ashley while Rhett waits and watches.
2,049-word summary · 9 min read
Sense and Sensibility
Elinor hides her heart and Marianne shows all of hers after the Dashwoods lose Norland, with Edward, Willoughby and Brandon circling.
1,936-word summary · 9 min read