Books like The Charterhouse of Parma
Fabrice del Dongo, a young Italian nobleman, runs off to fight for Napoleon at Waterloo, then makes his way through the court intrigues of Parma, love affairs and a famous imprisonment.
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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.
Sentimental Education
A young man in Paris during the 1848 revolution pursues love, ambition, and political ideals, and watches all three dissolve into mediocrity and regret.
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 Late Mattia Pascal
Unhappily married and in debt in a small Ligurian town, Mattia Pascal wins a fortune at Monte Carlo and, reading of his own death in the newspaper, decides to start a new life under a new name.
A Farewell to Arms
An American ambulance driver and a British nurse fall in love on the Italian front in World War I, and the war grinds their happiness to nothing.
After the Divorce
When Costantino is sentenced to prison for a murder he didn't commit, his wife Giovanna, under a new law allowing divorce, takes a richer husband in their Sardinian village.
The Leopard
In 1860, as Garibaldi's troops land in Sicily, Prince Fabrizio of Salina watches the aristocratic world he was born into give way to the new Italy, and arranges his nephew's marriage to the daughter of a rich upstart.
Confessions of Zeno
Zeno Cosini, a Trieste businessman, writes out his life for his psychiatrist, his last cigarettes, his choice of the wrong sister to marry, his father's death, in a comic confession that keeps missing the point.
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.
The Betrothed
Two Lombardy peasants are prevented from marrying by a local tyrant and spend the novel finding each other again across plague, war, and the politics of 17th-century northern Italy.
Iceland's Bell
At the end of the seventeenth century, under Danish rule, Jón Hreggviðsson, a poor farmer accused of killing the king's hangman, wanders Iceland and Europe while a scholar collects the country's ancient manuscripts.
Creation Lake
An American spy infiltrates an eco-commune in rural France, and her mission unravels as she's drawn into the group's ancient, unsettling philosophy.