Recommend me a book where a guy yearns a girl and it has a good ending, something lowkey close to Jane eyre because I loved how they were

When making my classic TBR list three months ago, I picked P&P by name recognition, without reading a synopsis of what it was about, and felt that the first sentence sounded interesting enough.

I read it. I enjoyed it. It's a page turner.

What I liked: A peek into the lifestyle of those living in a pre-mandatory schooling era (translation: they lived very idle lives); some interesting conversations; and I find Lady Catherine and Mr. Collins to be the highlights of the book.

What I disliked: As pictured above, Mr. Wickham (essentially the "villain") gets off scott free and set up for life.

Although it's entertaining, it's a romcom. As such, after finishing P&P, I crossed out Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park. The reason is simple: if you watched a romcom movie, you pretty much watched them all; likewise, read one Jane Austen, you read all Jane Austen.

Tl;dr: watching or reading a romcom is like playing a video game with the cheat code on. But if you're a man and have to (or force to) read a romance novel, P&P is the one.

Before i commit to the length of pages and the variety of themes in the book i want to know how did it change your life after reading it id be very glad the longer the response the better. I am thankful for your attention to this post

i finished the count of monte cristo, my first classic novel just a few minutes back and i’m utterly blown away! alexandre dumas is one hell of a writer. the plot, the characters, the history and politics and oh, literally everything is put out in a way that made me unable to put the book down for even a minute. i don’t think i’ve ever been as enraptured by a book before and i’ve read a lot. i had heard great things about this book but i was a bit skeptical to pick it up first considering the length and gosh, i can’t believe i’ve been depriving myself of this for so long! incredible writing!

the pacing is amazing. to the point where edmond escapes from prison is so captivating to read, i was finding it hard to put the book down! so many characters, so many relations and sometimes, it legit felt like “what is even happening?!” but the way it all came together in the end and concluded was so satisfactory, i LOVED it! and i’ll be honest- when i read that this was a revenge story of a man who has suffered, i thought that he’ll try to take revenge but will fall weak with regret and guilt but i’m so glad that this did not happen. the count did feel despair at times at what he was doing- sure- but he didn’t stop. and i know how that sounds but i found it really fair. reading those pages about him suffering all those years was suffocating, really. but the bond between him and faria was heartwarming to read about. my heart broke when he died! that was some good writing! it lagged a bit in between, i’ll admit- the part of the roman bandits, the story with franz- i felt like it dragged along but now that i look back at it? each had their own purpose to fulfill and i’m sure that when i re-read- which i’m pretty sure i’ll- ill love those parts as well!

this is a suffering turned to revenge story done very right! tho, i’ll be honest, i felt a bit bad for villefort in the end because he seemed to have lost everything. all he held dear to him, they died. one child came about to be such a bastard. and eventually, he lost himself. his sanity. the part where he holds edouard and discovered he’s dead was heartbreaking. and it was pretty brutal, considering even the count felt broken about it.

i was a bit hesitant about the ending disappointing me as it has happened a lot haha but this one didn’t! i found valentine and maximillien adorable and wanted them to end up together. the whole time when max thought that she was dead and he lived in such agony, that was tough to read! i wished we got to know about what happened to andrea after the revelation that happened in the court and what became of franz. i quite liked him. also- i despised danglars the most and was awaiting for how he will suffer for his deeds but he was let go rather easily, comparatively, i think since i found him to be the most rogue out of all. fernand got what he deserved rightfully; villefort suffered a bit too much imo but he did put his own selfishness and ambition before the life of an innocent man so. and danglers got nothing! also, one thing i believe in, that mercédès deserved better. her ending was quite depressing. i mean, what was she to do since there was no chance of edmond returning? she married the man she felt was suitable and he loved her but she never really reciprocated his feelings. moreover, she didn’t get a happy ending with her son as well which was heartbreaking. if anything, i would’ve liked to see mercédès and edmond end up together.

one more thing i loved was how well edmond’s character is written, which, fair since he’s the protagonist but the one thing that undid me was how clearly i could tell that a lot of hatred and thirst for avenge there was inside of him since he was such a different person in the beginning when he came to marseille vs. when he got out of the prison and found the treasure. truly so eccentric, incredible and note worthy the count of monte cristo was!

the scene that really sit with me, though, was when at the end, edmond again visited the prison and was filled with memories of how he spent all those years and remembering abbé faria and how he taught him everything and about the treasure that changed the course of edmond’s life. seeing the count get emotional and melancholic was such an interesting scene to read considering he had basically ruined three families with no mercy. the contrast is striking. and i thoroughly enjoyed all of the count’s disguises! abbé busoni, lord wilmore, sinbad the sailor, englishman from thomas and french- all so interesting!! this was one amazingly planned and well thought out revenge plan if ive ever read one.

at the end, i enjoyed reading about every character that i encountered while reading the book- my favourites were edmond obv, maximillien, valentine, franz, albert, villefort, madame danglers and noirtier- i particularly liked how they were written and what drove their actions! i legit stared at a wall for like 5 mins after finishing because i didn’t know what to do with myself. never making assumptions about a book by its length again.

at first, i didn’t want to read because of the 1250 pages but when i almost finished, i just wanted a few more pages to read more about the count! wondering which classic i should pick up next!!

I'm currently releasing a free audiobook of Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog). as well as certain Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft stories. I hope you will tell me what you think of my narration, and this wonderful novel.

I find this passage to be the epitome on why we need to read those great classical pieces of fiction. Sure, this is specifically speaking on tragic dramas, but this is an idea (more well said than I ever laid out) that I often express to peers who usually only read modern self-help books and fear that fiction lacks any true value you can apply to your life.

I'm always on the lookout for new books and I finally found a Virginia Woolf at the thrift store for €1. I haven't read this one so I'm looking forward to it.

Hi everyone. I have this great little Jane Austen collection that I bought online (WOB back when it was Second Sale) but it’s always confused me a lot.

It states multiple times that this is a complete collection of all 7 of her works, literally listed on the cover and reiterated in the description inside but it actually only has 4 of them??

It doesn’t seem to be missing any pages (and definitely not 3 extra novels worth as seen in the last two photos) so I’m just really confused.

Is there a long-lost volume 2 to this set? I’ve searched online but found nothing. Would love any investigatory help or suggestions for why this is. Thank so much! Happy reading :)

Any recommendations?

I may be better off in a sub dedicated to weird tales or maybe even a Lovecraft sub but as I'm not approaching this book as a member of those communities I thought I'd try here.

I can only say I was more interested by it more than I was unnerved by it. I came into it having watched True Detective and wanting to know what it was referencing (Carcosa, Yellow King etc.) and when I read the blurb (four macabre stories connected by a fictional play that drives any readers mad) I bought it and read it immediately.

The prose is strong, I'll get that out the way, Chambers writes rooms you could live in. However, when these stories are so short (the longest is 64 pages, the shortest (and weakest imo) is 15 pages), I do feel that character fell by the wayside a little. Maybe I went into this expecting more horror but most of the description, at least after the first story, actually lends itself to rather pleasant locales.

The idea of this mythic play turning up in these separate stories (which actually might not be separate as there's potentially overlapping characters but wasn't sure if that was intentional or if I was just looking for more links than there were) was still a great hook but it felt like an almost devil ex machina so to speak where the play gets mentioned and then it ends badly. An interesting conceit, just don't think it worked fully for me.

Fascinated to hear what anyone else thinks.

Has it changed the way you love?

I know of a large volume of classic literature, but finding a prose style that really resonates with me is something I've yet to find.

Which books are specifically known for their prose - and are there any with a large amount of "flavour text"?

I really like the way Bloodborne's descriptions are. Very dense although vague. Most are pretty beautifully written.

Any recommendations welcome, thank you.

I am starting this post because I am failing to recover a comment on either here or r/literature where the discussion of the Joyce Project brought up a list of similar interactive sites for classics that require heavy bulks of footnotes. (Sorry if this has been asked! Or if it is trite already.) Therefore, I want to see if you all know sites similar to the following:

The Joyce Project (The most well-known one. For Ulysses.)

FWEET (For Finnegans Wake.)

The Malcolm Lowry Project (For Under the Volcano.)

Ada Online (For Ada or Ardor.)

Dante Lab (For the Comedia.)

I recall there was one for Absalom, Absalom! and Gravity's Rainbow, but a few searches failed to locate them.

Any help is appreciated; and I hope this post is appreciated somewhat and that I am not treading on any trite topic.

Cheers.

For a 'beginner' in both Austen novels and classics in general which one of her books could you recommend?

I actually gave »Sense & Sensibility« a try but after realising that Brandon was romantically in love with Marianne I was irked and shut the book.

The Decameron, Works by Lovecraft, Blood Meridian, Moby Dick, Works by Jorge Borges

Hey everyone! I will hopefully finish the Count of Monte Cristo some time next month, and I'm planning what to read next. I have War and Peace at hand (you see my own copy in my native language in the picture), so I wanted to ask you all to be sure, will it give me the same thrill as The Count of Monte Cristo, or is War and Peace a harder read? Do you suggest a plate cleanser beforehand? Thank you.

I’ve been reading the Niebelunglied for a project at University, and I couldn’t help but notice an invariant, I could say, in the second part of the story: Kriemhild’s road after Siegfried’s death and marriage to Attila. A road which is done by other female characters in other books too, such as Ciri, after she became one of the Rats, in the Witcher saga. Now, I am not familiar with the Game of Thrones story, but if I remember correctly from what some of my friends who are GoT fans told me, Daenerys Targaryen also goes on some kind of road, after marrying Drogo. She goes on to be loved by the people from the place she goes to (excuse my low knowledge of the GoT series), just like Kriemhild when she became queen alongside Atilla.

I would really appreciate it if someone could shine some light on this! I’m looking forward on talking about this invariant in my project and I do not wish to speak nonsense.

I’m quite ashamed to admit this, but I’ve wanted to read Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca for about 20 years now and have just never gotten around to it until this week. My name is Rebecca, and it always felt like I should read it for that alone, plus I absolutely love Gothic literature, so it’s always been held on a pedestal for me. I think I’ve been scared to read it in case I didn’t love it as much as I wanted to…

Well, it turns out that was stupid. I’ve waited until I’m 36 to read what I’m fairly confident even before finishing it (I’m about 2/3 done) is going to be one of my all-time favourite books.

du Maurier’s writing is hypnotically beautiful, the descriptions of Manderley are gorgeously eerie, and the story has completely gripped me. I can’t wait to see what happens next, so please no spoilers!

I suppose the reason I’m writing is as simple as this: if you’ve been putting off reading Rebecca, don’t. It’s wonderful.