8 livros parecidos com Maurice
Onde Vivem os Monstros
This is an inspired children's book about a boy's passage through tempestuous aspects of life.
Max, a naughty little boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails to the land of the wild things, where he becomes their king.
Temas em comum: Community pick
O Dançarino da Dança
One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic remembrance of things past -- and still poignantly present. It depicts the adventures of Malone, a beautiful young man searching for love amid New York's emerging gay scene. From Manhattan's Everard Baths and after-hours discos to Fire Island's deserted parks and lavish orgies, Malone looks high and…
Temas em comum: Homosexuality, Gay men
A Lua e a Sixpence
The Moon and Sixpence is a fictional novel heavily influenced by the life of French painter Paul Gauguin. The novel is told first-person, dipping episodically into the mind of the artist. Charles Strickland is an English stock broker, who leaves everything behind him in his middle age to live in defiant squalor in Paris as an artist. His genius is eventually recognized by a Dutch painter.
Temas em comum: England in fiction, British and irish fiction, England
O Mistério de Edwin Drood
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final, uncompleted novel by Charles Dickens. John Jasper is a choirmaster who is in love with one of his pupils, Rosa Bud. She is the fiancee of his nephew, Edwin Drood. A hot-tempered man from Ceylon also becomes interested in her and he and Drood take an instant dislike to one another. Later, Drood disappears, and as Dickens never finished the novel, Drood's…
Temas em comum: England in fiction, British and irish fiction, England
O Viajante Desinteressado
A collection of seventeen sketches which grew out of Dickens' insomnia. He took long walks through London at night and his observations resulted in these sketches.
Temas em comum: British and irish fiction, English literature
Torres de Barchester
The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 2: Barchester Towers
Written as a sequel to "The Warden", this is the second book of the Barsetshire novels. Described as humorous, this wonderful novel that interweaves power, love, greed, and deceit in Barchester.
Barchester Towers (1857) is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire, the work in which, after a ten-year apprenticeship, Trollope…
Temas em comum: England in fiction, British and irish fiction, England
O Legado de Caim
At the request of a person who has claims on me that I must not disown, I consent to look back through a long interval of years and to describe events which took place within the walls of an English prison during the earlier period of my appointment as Governor.
Temas em comum: England in fiction, British and irish fiction, England
Grandes Esperanças
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a bildungsroman; a coming-of-age story). It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from…
Temas em comum: Criticism and interpretation, Coming-of-age, British and irish fiction