The Dark Flower
6 best books like The Dark Flower (John Galsworthy): Home of the Gentry, The Man Who Planted Trees, The Family of Pascual Duarte, Löwensköldska ringen / Charlotte Löwensköld, Two on a Tower, Happy People Read and Drink Coffee
| Author | Ivan Turgenev |
| ISBN | 0140442243 |
"Home of the Gentry" is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published in the January 1859 issue of "Sovremennik". It was enthusiastically received by the Russian society and remained his least controversial and most widely-read novel until the end of the 19th century. It was turned into a movie by Andrey Konchalovsky...
The Man Who Planted Trees
| Author | Jean Giono |
| ISBN | 1570625387 |
Simply written, but powerful and unforgettable, The Man Who Planted Trees is a parable for modern times. In the foothills of the French Alps the narrator meets a shepherd who has quietly taken on the task of planting one hundred acorns a day in an effort to reforest his desolate region. Not even two world...
The Family of Pascual Duarte
| Author | Camilo José Cela |
| ISBN | 1564783596 |
For fans of Spanish miserablism set in a heartless deterministic universe (i.e. this one), Pascal Duarte is the brief novel for you. Duarte’s confession, written from prison, is a beautiful recounting of a life of violent poverty and aimless murder, told in simple and frequently moving prose. Cela’s...
Löwensköldska ringen / Charlotte Löwensköld
| Author | Selma Lagerlöf |
| ISBN | 9100107433 |
Selma Lagerlöf does not disappoint! In "the Löwensköld ring" we have a proper ghost story of an old captain haunting an old mansion after a ring is stolen from his grave. In "Charlotte Löwensköld" we have an arrogant young man, who drives the love of his life into the arms of another. It is well-written,...
Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful youth Swithin St Cleeve, her social inferior and ten years her junior. The tower in question is a monument converted into an astronomical observatory where together the lovers 'sweep the heavens'. Science...
Happy People Read and Drink Coffee
| Author | Agnès Martin-Lugand |
| ISBN | 1602862842 |
Diane seems to have the perfect life. She is a wife, a mother, and the owner of Happy People Read and Drink Coffee, a cozy literary cafe in Paris. But when she suddenly loses her beloved husband and daughter in a tragic car accident, the world as she knows it instantly vanishes. Trapped and haunted by her...
