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Books like Emma
Emma by Jane Austen is about self-delusion and growth, class and condescension, female autonomy. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Pride and Prejudice
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Jane Austen · Classics
Pride and Prejudice opens with one of the most famous sentences in English literature and immediately establishes its ironic mode: a truth universally acknowledged turns out to be a social pressure universally imposed.
Read the summary → - Sense and Sensibility
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Jane Austen · Classics
Two sisters, dispossessed by the legal mechanics of entail after their father's death, move to a smaller house in Devonshire with reduced means and reduced prospects.
Read the summary → - Emotional Intelligence
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Daniel Goleman · Psychology
Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence, published in 1995, made a widely influential argument: that the cluster of abilities involved in managing emotions — self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, and social skill — predicts life outcomes at least as well as IQ, and possibly better in many domains.
Read the summary → - Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
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Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
Daniel Goleman · Psychology
Daniel Goleman's follow-up to Emotional Intelligence shifts focus from the inner world to the social.
Read the summary → - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck · Psychology
Carol Dweck's central claim is simple but far-reaching: people hold one of two basic beliefs about their own abilities.
Read the summary → - Bleak House
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Charles Dickens · Classics
Bleak House is organized around the interminable Chancery case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce — a legal dispute over a will that has been grinding through the Court of Chancery for decades, consuming the fortunes and lives of everyone attached to it.
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