18 books like The Europeans

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Heartbreak House George Bernard Shaw · 1919 · ★ 3.7 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Published in 1919, Heartbreak House is an examination of the failings of the European leisure classes before World War I—failings that author George Bernard Shaw blamed for the war, and that he predicted would quickly lead to another, longer war. The play is set in an English country house, where representatives of every type of English society have gathered at the home of the seemingly-mad… Shares Upper class, Facsimiles, Manuscripts

The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner · 1929 · ★ 3.9 · 335p · ≈ 11h · Moderate In many ways this was an experimental novel, using several differing narrative styles. Divided into four parts, the author relates the same episodes from four different viewpoints, using a different style for each. The story concerns various members of a Southern family, once wealthy landowners but now struggling to maintain their reputation. Shares American Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts, Brothers and sisters

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

The Friends of Eddie Coyle George V. Higgins · 1972 · ★ 4.0 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Eddie Coyle is a small-time punk with a big-time problem - who to sell out to avoid being sent up again. Eddie works for Jimmy Scalisi, supplying him with guns for a couple of bank jobs. But a cop named Foley is onto Eddie, and he's leaning on him to finger Scalisi, a gang leader with a lot to hide. And then there's Dillon, a full-time bartender and a part-time contract killer pretending to be… Shares Massachusetts, Boston

The Town William Faulkner · 1957 · 371p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Flem Snopes goes on to higher things in Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha's county seat. Shares American Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts

Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1933 · ★ 3.8 · 399p · ≈ 13h · Moderate A psychiatrist, Dick Diver, treats and eventually marries a wealthy patient, Nicole. Eventually, this marriage destroys him. Shares American Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts

Intruder in the Dust William Faulkner · 1948 · 247p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Using his preferred stream-of-consciousness style the author tells a story of a black farmer in Mississippi accused of murdering a white man. Shares American Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts

The Billion-Dollar Molecule

The Billion-Dollar Molecule Barry Werth · 1994 · ★ 4.0 · 445p · ≈ 14h · Moderate The Billion-Dollar Molecule raises the curtain on the fascinating and tumultuous drama of a radically new start-up pharmaceutical company. That company, Vertex, is trying to design a lifesaving new drug that - if it works - will prove the potential of a brand-new drug-making technique and also fulfill the vision of Vertex's founder and chairman, Joshua Boger, one of the most promising scientists… Shares United States

Absalom, Absalom!

Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner · 1936 · ★ 4.0 · 321p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him." Shares American Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts

The Judas Goat

The Judas Goat Robert B. Parker · 1978 · 181p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Private eye Spenser returns to take on the terrorists who killed his client's wife and daughters in a London bombing, chasing them across Europe to the Montreal Olympics and a devastating climax. Shares Massachusetts, Boston

God Save the Child

God Save the Child Robert B. Parker · 1974 · ★ 4.0 · 185p · ≈ 6h · Moderate New York Times bestselling author of the Spenser series of crime thrillers - Book 2 in the series -Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears. Everyone thinks he's run away -- until the comic strip ransom note arrives.  It doesn't take Spenser long to get the picture -- an affluent family seething with rage,… Shares Massachusetts, Boston

Sanctuary William Faulkner · 1931 · ★ 3.6 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Lee Goodwin es acusado de asesinato. El escenario del crimen es una casa oculta entre los árboles que alberga una destilería ilegal. Allí viven, entre otros, Ruby, una mujer que ha renunciado a todo por Lee, y Popeye, un sádico gánster marcado por una infancia terrible. El abogado Horace Benbow lucha para que Goodwin no sea juzgado por ser quien es, sino por los actos de los que le acusan. Para… Shares American Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts

As I Lay Dying William Faulkner · 1915 · ★ 3.7 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Written in stream-of-consciousness style with multiple narrators, the story follows a journey wherein the family of a dead woman try to transport her body to her birthplace in Mississippi in accordance with her wishes. When a ford across a river is flooded they are forced to take a roundabout route and it becomes a desperate race to complete their mission before the body begins to decompose. Shares American Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts

Proserpine & Midas Mary Shelley · 1922 · ★ 3.4 · 54p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Shares Facsimiles, Manuscripts with this book.

Sudden Mischief

Sudden Mischief Robert B. Parker · 1998 · 274p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Brad Sterling - former Harvard football player, ne'er-dowell, and Susan Silverman's long-out-of-touch ex-husband - is, by all appearances, a successful businessman. But when he is charged with sexual harassment in the course of running a vast fund-raiser called Galapalooza, he turns to Susan for help. Though Brad denies the charge, he's desperate, behind in alimony and child support to other… Shares Massachusetts, Boston

The Widening Gyre

The Widening Gyre Robert B. Parker · 1983 · ★ 4.0 · 183p · ≈ 6h · Moderate The adoring wife of a senatorial candidate has a smile as sweet as candy and dots her "i's" with little hearts. A blond beauty, she is the perfect mate for an ambitious politician, but she has a little problem with sex and drugs -- a problem someone has managed to put on videotape. The big boys figure a little blackmail will put her husband out of the race. Until Spenser hops on the candidate's… Shares Massachusetts, Boston

Johnny Tremain Esther Forbes · 1943 · ★ 3.7 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Johnny Tremain, a young apprentice silversmith, is caught up in the danger and excitement of 1775 Boston, just before the Revolutionary War. But even more gripping than living through the drama of Revolutionary Boston is the important discovery Johnny makes in his own life. Shares Massachusetts, Boston, United States

This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920 · ★ 3.6 · 252p · ≈ 8h · Moderate This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twenty-three years old. This semi-autobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant fame. Now, readers can enjoy the newly edited, authorized version of this early classic of the… Shares American Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts

Presidents for Kids

Presidents for Kids Presidents For Kids · 2025 Shares United States with this book.

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