If you are looking for some great classic books to add to your reading list, take a look at these curated by the Readplot review team.
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
Manzoni’s novel takes in the story of two young lovers trying to be together and sets it against a broader backdrop of 17th-century Italian life. The Betrothed is considered by many to be the most extraordinary novel ever written in Italian. This book is on the verge of being forgotten by casual readers, but it’s entertaining, socially and scientifically progressive for its time, has incredibly moving, beautifully-written passages on bread riots and the plague, and it has the best surprise trope-subversion at the end.
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Immense yourself in the dazzling breadth of Woolf’s imagination in this short but powerful novel and follow Orlando from the court of Elizabeth I to a celebrated poet in the 20th century. What is it to be a woman? Woolf's modernist novel is so fresh even 90 or so years later. Gender fluidity before the term was even coined. And a history of literature as a backdrop.
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