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- JamesAbdulla recommends Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
- P_S_Patrick recommends The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal, "These two books have a fair bit in common, though much is different between them too. They both are set in Italy and are concerned with court and family (see more) life, with politics, and the state of the country at the time they were written. The Charterhouse is set mainly in the north, around Milan, Parma, and Lake Como, near the Swiss border, in the first half of the 19th Century. The Leopard is set in the South, much of it in Sicily, starting over halfway through the 19th Century and ending in the next one. Stendhal writes dramatically about adventures and high emotions, whereas Lampedusa is far less baroque about it and writes with greater reserve and elegance. Together these books complement each other and give the reader a reasonably balanced view of Italian life over around a 100 years. Readers are likely to prefer one book over the other, but I am sure that if they enjoyed one they are very likely to enjoy the other. There are passages in the Charterhouse that outshine the best in the Leopard, but I prefer the latter due to it being nearer to perfection when taken as a whole."
- roby72 recommends Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann
- roby72 recommends I vicere by Federico De Roberto
- Eustrabirbeonne recommends Shakespeare by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- Eustrabirbeonne recommends The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
- Eustrabirbeonne recommends The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
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