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The Wishing Well by Vivian Porter, Vivian Porter

Did not finish book. Stopped at 54%.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Who was the moral man? Who was the moral woman? The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done but among things willed.

She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations to anybody but herself.

The two halves of an approximately perfect whole did not confront each other at perfect moment; part and counterpart wandered independently about the earth in the stupidest manner for a while, till the late time came. Out of which maladroit delay sprang anxieties, disappointments, shocks, catastrophes - what was called a strange destiny.

Race by Toni Morrison

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emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

All things in her are flux and anticipation. But her blackness is static and dread.

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

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emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.5

Some persons hold, that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the heart.

People must be amused.....they can't be always working, nor yet they can be always a learning.

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

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challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? N/A
Loveable characters? N/A
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

The world is an oyester, but you don't crack it open on a mattress.

Why must everybody conquer the world?

Miller’s presentation of Time in the plot

He moved from one moment of the present, to another moment of the past, so smoothly without breaking the overall scene.

This is a beautiful way of presenting time as having a fluid nature.

Willy's character also portrays this fluidity of time, as what he had in the past comes back and makes him grieve and hallucinate in the present, and thus marks a tragedy in his future.

White Nights (Penguin little black classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? N/A
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

> *I create entire love stories in my dreams.*
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> *You talk as though you were reading from a book.*
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> *I'm a dreamer; I have so little real life.*
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> *Now in my head thousands of valves have opened and I must set loose this river of words.*
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The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

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emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced