Books like Charlotte Löwensköld
In 1830s Värmland, the lively Charlotte Löwensköld is engaged to her cousin Karl-Artur, a fiercely pious young clergyman, and one careless remark about money sets both their lives on a different course.
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Synnøve Solbakken
In a Norwegian mountain valley, Thorbjørn, a quarrelsome farmer's son, loves Synnøve, the gentle girl of the neighbouring farm, but her pious parents won't hear of a match until he learns to master his temper.
Lucky Per
Per Sidenius, the rebellious son of a provincial Lutheran pastor, goes to Copenhagen to become an engineer with a grand scheme of canals and harbours, and wins a rich Jewish family's daughter.
A Simple Story
In a small Galician town at the turn of the century, Hirshl, the son of a prosperous shopkeeper, falls for his poor orphaned cousin Blume, who works as a servant in his parents' house.
A Room with a View
A young woman visits Florence and discovers that passion and spontaneity offer more than the propriety she was raised to value.
The Red and the Black
Julien Sorel, the ambitious son of a carpenter in Restoration France, schemes his way from tutor in a provincial mayor's household to the seminary and the salons of Paris, seducing and calculating his way up.
The Story of Gösta Berling
A defrocked, drunken priest joins the band of cavaliers living off the mistress of a great Värmland estate, and their year of revels brings ruin and redemption to the district.
Sense and Sensibility
Left with little money after their father's death, the Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, face heartbreak and fortune-hunters in Regency England.
Jerusalem
A revival movement splits a farming parish in Dalarna, and a group of villagers sells their ancestral farms to follow its preacher to a religious colony in Jerusalem.
Wanderers
An ageing writer takes to the road as a labourer in rural Norway, working on farms and estates, and falls under the spell of a captain's wife at one of them.
Washington Square
Catherine Sloper, the plain, dutiful heiress of a brilliant New York doctor, is courted by a charming young man her father is certain wants only her money.
Love in a Fallen City
Stories of love and money in Shanghai and Hong Kong in the 1940s; in the title novella, a divorced woman goes to Hong Kong to win a rich playboy, and the Japanese attack.
Paradise Reclaimed
Steinar, a poor, upright Icelandic farmer, gives his daughter's beloved pony to the King of Denmark and later leaves his family to follow a Mormon missionary to Utah.