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Books like Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos is about seduction as power, social performance, revenge and cruelty. 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.
- The Sorrows of Young Werther
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Classics
The Sorrows of Young Werther is an epistolary novel — told almost entirely in letters from the protagonist to his friend Wilhelm — about a young man of artistic sensibility who falls devastatingly in love with a woman already promised to another.
Read the summary → - The Red and the Black
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Stendhal · Classics
The Red and the Black follows Julien Sorel, the son of a provincial carpenter and the most self-consciously ambitious character in the French novel, as he attempts to rise through the social hierarchy of post-Napoleonic France by any means available to him.
Read the summary → - Siddhartha
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Hermann Hesse · Religion & Spirituality
Siddhartha is Hermann Hesse's 1922 novel of spiritual seeking, written at a time when Hesse was deeply studying Buddhist and Hindu texts.
Read the summary → - The Bell Jar
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Sylvia Plath · Memoir
The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel, published in January 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, one month before Plath's death.
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.
Read the summary → - Candide
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Voltaire · Classics
Candide is a young man raised in a Westphalian castle on the philosophy of his tutor Pangloss: that everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
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