18 books like New-England tale

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La fête du mais Thomas Tryon · 1969 · ★ 3.5 · 415p · ≈ 13h · Moderate It was almost as if time had not touched the village of Cornwall Coombe. The quiet, peaceful place was straight out of a bygone era, with well-cared-for Colonial houses, a white-steepled church fronting a broad Common. Ned and Beth Constantine chanced upon the hamlet and immediately fell in love with it. This was exactly the haven they dream of. Or so they thought. For Ned and his family,… Shares: New england, Social life and customs

Volevo i pantaloni Lara Cardella · 1989 · ★ 3.0 · 118p · ≈ 3h · Moderate The ironic tale of a 12-year-old Sicilian girl who decides to show her independence by flouting convention, in this case by wearing trousers and flirting with boys. When she is caught kissing, the parents punish her by sending her to another village to live with an uncle, unaware he molested her when she was younger. Shares: Girls, Bildungsromans, Social life and customs

The snow-image, and other tales Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1851 · ★ 5.0 · 254p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Short stories. Shares: New england, Social life and customs

Hotel Paradise Martha Grimes · 1996 · ★ 3.6 · 462p · ≈ 15h · Moderate 1st book in Emma Graham series Shares: Girls, Bildungsromans

The peppered moth Margaret Drabble · 2000 · ★ 3.3 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate "It is 1912 and Bessie Bawtry is a small child living in Breaseborough, a South Yorkshire mining town. Unusually gifted, she sits quietly and studies hard, waiting for the day when she can sit the Cambridge entrance exam and escape the kind of life her ancestors have never even thought to question. Her parents are in awe of her - who is this swan-child, is she a freak? (Where did she get her… Shares: Bildungsromans, Social life and customs

Wish You Well David Baldacci · 2000 · ★ 4.1 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Precocious 12-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives inthe hectic New York City of 1940 with her family.Then tragedy strikes--and Lou and her younger brother,Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on theirgreat-grandmother's farm in the Virginia mountains.Suddenly Lou finds herself coming of age in a newlandscape, making her first true friend, and experiencingadventures tragic, comic, and… Shares: Girls, Bildungsromans, Social life and customs

Midnight Whispers V.C. Andrews · 1991 · ★ 3.9 · 440p · ≈ 14h · Moderate HAPPY AND INNOCENT, DAWN'S DAUGHTER CHRISTIE HAS GROWN UP IN THE SAFEST, MOST LOVING OF HOMES... Yet Christie can't help feeling as if a dark cloud hovers over Cutler's Cove... a cloud whose origins lie in her family's troubled history, and the many questions no one, not even Dawn, will answer. Only one person can always chase away her blues: Gavin, Daddy Jimmy's young and handsome… Shares: Orphans, Bildungsromans

Mona in the Promised Land Gish Jen · 1996 · ★ 3.9 · 303p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Unhappy with her own ethnic group, Mona Chang, a Chinese-American, decides to become a Jew. After all, if one has to live as a minority, choose the best. A witty look at ethnicity, multiculturalism and the melting pot. By the author of Typical American. Shares: Girls, Bildungsromans

Clayhanger Arnold Bennett · 1910 · 415p · ≈ 13h · Challenging This coming-of-age story set in the Midlands of Victorian England follows Edwin Clayhanger as he leaves school, takes over the family business and falls in love. Bennett wrote it in 1910 at the Royal Albion Hotel, Brighton, and in Lausanne. Edwin Clayhanger's father, Darius, has risen from an extremely poor background, which Bennett repeatedly returns to, to become a prominent printer in Bursley.… Shares: Bildungsromans, Social life and customs

No Thoroughfare Charles Dickens · 1800 · ★ 3.6 · 106p · ≈ 3h · Challenging No Thoroughfare is a stage play and novel by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, both released in December 1867. Shares: Orphans, Social life and customs

The Minister's Wooing Harriet Beecher Stowe · 1800 · 427p · ≈ 14h · Challenging From the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a domestic comedy that examines slavery, Protestant theology, and gender differences in early America.First published in 1859, Harriet Beecher Stowe's third novel is set in eighteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, a community known for its engagement in both religious piety and the slave trade. Mary Scudder lives in a modest farmhouse with her widowed mother… Shares: New england, Social life and customs

No name Wilkie Collins · 1862 · ★ 4.1 · 561p · ≈ 18h · Challenging No Name is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction, Wilkie Collins. A country gentleman is killed in an accident and his wife dies shortly after him. The blow is double for their daughters, who discover that they were born before their parents were married. Their sudden illegitimacy robs them of their inheritance and their accustomed place in society. Shares: Orphans, Social life and customs

Twice-Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1800 · ★ 3.9 · 242p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Twice-Told Tales is a short story collection first published in two volumes by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The stories had all been previously published in magazines and annuals, hence the name. Contains: The Gray Champion Sunday At Home The Wedding Knell The Minister's Black Veil The Maypole of Merry Mount The Gentle Boy Mr Higginbotham's Catastrophe Little Annie's Ramble Wakefield A Rill From the… Shares: New england, Social life and customs

Shelter Jayne Anne Phillips · 1994 · ★ 3.7 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate In a West Virginia girls' camp in July 1963, a group of children experience an unexpected rite of passage. Shelter is an astonishing portrayal of an American loss of innocence as witnessed by a drifter named Parson, two young sisters, Lenny and Alma, and a feral boy. Like Buddy, the wide-eyed boy so at home in the natural bower of the forest, Lenny and Alma are forever transformed by violence, by… Shares: Girls, Bildungsromans

The wind in the rose-bush Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman · 1903 · ★ 4.2 · 148p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Six ghost stories from small-town 19th century America. Shares: New england, Social life and customs

Whistling past the graveyard Susan Crandall · 2013 · ★ 4.1 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Determined to get to Nashville to find her mother in 1963, nine-year-old spitfire Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home, eventually accepting a ride from a Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby. In 1963, determined to get to Nashville to find her mother, nine-year-old spitfire Starla runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home. … Shares: Girls, Bildungsromans

Coming of age in Samoa Margaret Mead · 1924 · ★ 3.5 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Challenging The classic anthropological study describes what it was like in the 1920s for girls growing up in the culture of the Samoan Islands, offering provocative insights into such topics as childhood, gender roles, and culture. Shares: Girls, Social life and customs

Judith Paris Hugh Walpole · 1931 · 782p · ≈ 26h · Challenging Covering the years 1771 to 1822 and set partly in Revolutionary Paris, and partly in romantic Cumbria, Judith Paris is the story of the two very different men who love Walpole's most delightful heroine. Daughter of Francis Herries and Mirabell Starr, Judith was described on publication as "the most delightful of Walpole's heroines." As impetuous, impulsive and passionate as her father, she is… Shares: Bildungsromans, Social life and customs

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