Books like Near to the Wild Heart
A young woman's interior world unfolds through impressionistic fragments of memory and sensation.
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Mrs Dalloway
On a June day in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway walks through London buying flowers for her party, while a shell-shocked veteran, Septimus Smith, moves towards his own crisis, and the novel maps their inner lives hour by hour.
To the Lighthouse
A family vacations at a Scottish lighthouse, and the passage of time between two visits reveals everything about love, art, loss, and the impossibility of reaching the things we yearn for.
The Passion According to G.H.
G.H., a well-off sculptor in Rio de Janeiro, goes to tidy the room her maid has just left, finds a cockroach in the wardrobe, and in the hours that follow loses hold of everything she thought she was.
The Hour of the Star
A self-conscious narrator tells the story of Macabéa, a poor girl adrift in Rio.
Ancient Tillage
André, who has run away from his family's farm, is brought home by his older brother, and tells in a torrent of language why he left.
Dom Casmurro
Bento Santiago, an embittered old lawyer in Rio de Janeiro, sets down the story of his love for his childhood sweetheart Capitu, and of his suspicion that she betrayed him.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A young Irishman moves from Catholic boyhood through intellectual rebellion to artistic exile, constructing himself word by word into the writer he'll become.
Short Letter, Long Farewell
A young Austrian writer travels across America, from Providence to California, followed, or so he believes, by his estranged wife, who has left him a note telling him not to look for her.
The Left-Handed Woman
A young woman in a suburb of Paris, after a sudden illumination, asks her husband to leave and begins to live alone with her eight-year-old son.
Rosshalde
On the estate of Rosshalde, the celebrated painter Johann Veraguth lives estranged from his wife, his one joy their small son Pierre, as a friend urges him to leave for India.
Crooked Plow
Two sisters on a Bahian plantation share a tongue-cutting accident in childhood and grow into opposite lives bound by the land and its spirits.
Malina
A woman living in Vienna with a silent man named Malina and loving a violent one named Ivan writes her own disappearance in a book that is part novel, part score.