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Books like The Enchanted April

Loved The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from romance, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

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    Aaron's Rod

    D. H. Lawrence · 1922 · Romance

    An amateur musician leaves a coal mining town in the English Midlands, going first to London and later to Florence.

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    To the Last Man

    Zane Grey · 1921 · Romance

    "This is the classic story of a deadly feud between cattlemen and sheepherders in the Tonto Basin of Arizona in the late years of the 1800s that gave substance to one of the legendary conflicts of the

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    Lady Susan

    Jane Austen · 1925 · Romance

    Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marriage for herself, while attempting to push her daughter into a dismal match. A magnificently crafted no

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    Night and Day

    Virginia Woolf · 1919 · Romance

    Night and day, Virginia Woolf's second novel, is both a love story and a social comedy in the tradition of Jane Austen; yet it also questions that tradition, recognizing that the goals of society and

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    The U.P. Trail

    Zane Grey · 1918 · Romance

    From the book:In the early sixties a trail led from the broad Missouri, swirling yellow and turgid between its green-groved borders, for miles and miles out upon the grassy Nebraska plains, turning we

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    Anne of the Island

    Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1915 · Romance

    New adventures lie ahead for Anne Shirley as she packs her bags, waves goodbye to childhood, and heads for Redmond College. With her old friend Prissy Grant waiting in the bustling city of Kingsport,

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    Seventeen

    Booth Tarkington · 1915 · Romance

    A reminiscence of America’s youth, Seventeen takes place in turn-of-the-20th-century Indianapolis. In this innocent story we learn that people dealt with the same affections and outlooks then as they

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    The "genius"

    Theodore Dreiser · 1915 · Romance

    Dreiser's semi-autobiographical novel about a young man's unhappy marriage, adulterous relationships, and struggle to retain his artistic integrity.

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    The Song of the Lark

    Willa Cather · 1915 · Romance

    Determined to leave behind the dull values of her small hometown, an opera singer devotes increasing amounts of energy to developing her art.

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    Platero y yo

    Juan Ramón Jiménez · 1914 · Romance

    Platero y yo es una obra lírica escrita por el escritor y Premio Nobel de Literatura (1956) español Juan Ramón Jiménez, que recrea poéticamente la vida del asno Platero, su inseparable amigo de niñez

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