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Books like Tom Jones
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding is about prudence versus goodness, class and hypocrisy, fortune and providence. 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.
- Robinson Crusoe
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Daniel Defoe · Classics
Robinson Crusoe is the fictional memoir of an Englishman shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island for twenty-eight years.
Read the summary → - Gulliver's Travels
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Jonathan Swift · Classics
Gulliver's Travels presents itself as the plain memoir of Lemuel Gulliver, an English ship's surgeon who undertakes four extraordinary voyages.
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 → - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · History
Sapiens traces the full arc of human history from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa roughly 70,000 years ago to the present.
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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