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series16 books1961

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Historical fiction, reflective in tone.

“There's no ongoing plot connecting the pieces; Orsinia functions more as a shared place and history than a series with continuing characters.”
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TrilbyNovel

George du Maurierstandalone novel1894

About art and artists and music, set in big city.

“Trilby is set in the 1850s in an idyllic bohemian Paris.”
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The MartianNovel

George du Maurierstandalone novel1897

Reflective in tone, about friendship.

“Written in long descriptive passages with very little dialogue and many digressions, the book had considerably less success in its time than its predecessor, the popular Trilby.”
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VilletteNovel

Charlotte Brontëstandalone novel1853

Emotional and reflective in tone, about identity and loneliness.

“After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the fictional Continental city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance.”
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FlatlandSeries

series2 books1884

Science fiction, set in otherworld.

“Ian Stewart's 2001 Flatterland follows a descendant of that narrator on a tour of stranger geometries, from curved and multidimensional space to relativity, as a knowing homage to Abbott's original.”
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A Little PrincessNovel

Frances Hodgson Burnettstandalone novel1905

Emotional in tone, about coming of age and class conflict, set in british isles.

“All three versions tell the story of Sara Crewe, a wealthy young girl and the prize student of a private London boarding school who is reduced to poverty and forced to endure the life of a servant under the school's cruel headmistress.”
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