Literary fiction · Similar reads
Books like Ulysses
Ulysses by James Joyce is about identity, consciousness, modern dublin. 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.
- Dubliners
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James Joyce · Short stories
Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories set in Dublin in the early twentieth century, published in 1914 after nearly a decade of rejections and publisher disputes over its frank treatment of Irish life.
Read the summary → - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce · Literary fiction
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man traces the intellectual and spiritual development of Stephen Dedalus from early childhood to the edge of adulthood, when he leaves Ireland to pursue life as an artist.
Read the summary → - Steppenwolf
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Hermann Hesse · Philosophy
Steppenwolf is Hermann Hesse's most psychologically intense and formally inventive novel, published in 1927 at a time of personal crisis.
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 → - 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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