Literary fiction · Similar reads
Books like The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is about aestheticism and moral decay, vanity and the soul, art and life. 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 Portrait of a Lady
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Henry James · Literary fiction
Isabel Archer is an intelligent, independent young American woman who arrives in Europe convinced that she wants nothing more than to be free — free from convention, from the pressure to marry, from the enclosures that other women seem to accept without complaint.
Read the summary → - Frankenstein
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Mary Shelley · Literary fiction
Victor Frankenstein, a young Swiss scientist obsessed with the secrets of life, creates a living being from assembled human parts and then immediately abandons it in horror at what he has made.
Read the summary → - Homage to Catalonia
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George Orwell · Memoir
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's firsthand account of fighting in the Spanish Civil War, which he joined in late 1936 as a volunteer with the POUM militia — a Trotskyist revolutionary organization that was later suppressed by the Soviet-backed Stalinist wing of the Republican forces.
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 → - A Farewell to Arms
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Ernest Hemingway · Literary fiction
A Farewell to Arms is set during the First World War in northern Italy and follows Frederic Henry, an American serving as a lieutenant in the Italian ambulance corps, who falls in love with Catherine Barkley, a British nurse.
Read the summary → - A Fine Balance
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Rohinton Mistry · Literary fiction
A Fine Balance is set in an unnamed Indian city during Indira Gandhi's Emergency of 1975–1977, a period of suspended democracy, forced sterilization, and slum clearances that is barely taught in the West and barely taught in India.
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