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Books like The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo is about fate and predestination, desire and obsession, outcasts and society. 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.
- Les Misérables
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Victor Hugo · Classics
Jean Valjean is paroled after nineteen years in prison — five for stealing bread, fourteen more for escape attempts — and finds that the law, in the person of the relentless Inspector Javert, will never truly release him.
Read the summary → - The Alchemist
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Paulo Coelho · Religion & Spirituality
The Alchemist is a Brazilian novel first published in 1988 and translated into 80 languages, making it one of the most translated books in history.
Read the summary → - Madame Bovary
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Gustave Flaubert · Classics
Emma Bovary is a doctor's wife in provincial Normandy who believes, with absolute conviction, that real life should feel like the romantic novels she devoured as a girl.
Read the summary → - All Quiet on the Western Front
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque · History
All Quiet on the Western Front follows Paul Bäumer, a young German soldier who enlists with his classmates during the First World War after being swept up in patriotic speeches.
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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