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Persuasion by Jane Austen is about second chances, regret and constancy, class and social change. 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.

  1. Pride and Prejudice
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    Pride and Prejudice

    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.

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  2. Sense and Sensibility
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    Sense and Sensibility

    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.

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  3. A General Theory of Love
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    A General Theory of Love

    Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon · Psychology

    A General Theory of Love is a 2000 book by three psychiatrists at the University of California, San Francisco — Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon — who set out to explain love scientifically without stripping it of its significance.

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  4. Man's Search for Meaning
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    Man's Search for Meaning

    Viktor E. Frankl · Psychology

    Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's account of his years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and the psychological theory he developed from that experience.

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  5. Bleak House
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    Bleak House

    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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  6. Candide
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    Candide

    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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