18 books like Volevo i pantaloni

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New-England tale Catharine Maria Sedgwick · 1822 · ★ 3.2 · 297p · ≈ 9h · Challenging The Early American Women Writers series offers rare works of fiction by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women, each reprinted in its entirety, each with a foreword by General Editor Cathy N. Davidson, who places the novel in a historical and literary perspective. Written in 1822, A New-England Tale is the first of the many novels, tales, and short magazine pieces Catharine Sedgwick published… Shares: Girls, Bildungsromans, Social life and customs

The Catholic School Edoardo Albinati · 2019 · ★ 3.5 · 1280p · ≈ 42h · Moderate "A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacre"-- Shares: Italy, Bildungsromans

Twilight in Italy D. H. Lawrence · 1916 · 310p · ≈ 10h · Challenging In these impressions of the Italian countryside, Lawrence transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty. "Twilight in Italy" is a vibrant account of Lawrence's stay among the people of Lake Garda, whose decaying lemon gardens bear witness to the twilight of a way of life centuries old. Shares: Italy, 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

Cristo si è fermato a Eboli Carlo Levi · 1946 · ★ 4.0 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Challenging It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi?a doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters?was confined as a political prisoner because of his opposition to Italy?s Fascist government at the start of the Ethiopian war in 1935. While there, Levi reflected on the harsh landscape and its inhabitants, peasants who lived the same lives their ancestors had, constantly… Shares: Italy, Social life and customs

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

The Family Mario Puzo · 2001 · ★ 3.8 · 418p · ≈ 13h · Moderate What is a family? Mario Puzo first answered that question, unforgettably, in his landmark bestseller The Godfather; with the creation of the Corleones he forever redefined the concept of blood loyalty. Now, thirty years later, Puzo enriches us further with his ultimate vision of the subject, in a masterpiece that crowns his remarkable career: the story of the greatest crime family in Italian… Shares: Italy, Social life and customs

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

Pictures from Italy Charles Dickens · 1846 · ★ 3.5 · 125p · ≈ 4h · Challenging From the book:If the readers of this volume will be so kind as to take their credentials for the different places which are the subject of its author's reminiscences, from the Author himself, perhaps they may visit them, in fancy, the more agreeably, and with a better understanding of what they are to expect. Many books have been written upon Italy, affording many means of studying the history of… Shares: Italy, 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

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

The last song Nicholas Sparks · 2009 · ★ 4.2 · 390p · ≈ 13h · Moderate 1 bestselling author Nicholas Sparks's new novel is at once a compelling family drama and a heartrending tale of young love.Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alientated from her parents, especially her father...until her… Shares: Girls, Bildungsromans

Storia della bambina perduta Elena Ferrante · 2000 · ★ 4.5 · 614p · ≈ 20h · Moderate Ostatni tom bestsellerowej serii, którą otwiera Genialna przyjaciółka. W skład tetralogii wchodzą również Historia nowego nazwiska oraz Historia ucieczki. Wszystkie powieści odniosły międzynarodowy sukces i zostały docenione także w środowisku pisarskim. Elenę i Lilę łączy niełatwa więź oparta na miłości, nienawiści, zazdrości, dominacji i podległości. Wspólnie wychowywały się na przedmieściach… Shares: Italy, Social life and customs

The Portrait of a Lady Henry James · 1881 · ★ 3.8 · 634p · ≈ 21h · Demanding Young American Isabel Archer charms European society, but falls prey to the machinations of a calculating older woman. Shares: Italy, Social life and customs

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