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Books like The story girl

Loved The story girl by Lucy Maud Montgomery? 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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    Jennie Gerhardt

    Theodore Dreiser · 1911 · Romance

    Dreiser's second novel and his own personal favorite features an impoverished heroine who, in simply trying to make her way in the world, inadvertently defies a host of social conventions.

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    Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford love story

    Sir Max Beerbohm · 1911 · Romance

    That old bell, presage of a train, had just sounded through Oxford station; and the undergraduates who were waiting there, gay figures in tweed or flannel, moved to the margin of the platform and gaze

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    Daddy-Long-Legs

    Jean Webster · 1912 · Romance

    From poor lonely orphan to sophisticated young woman — Jerusha Abbott can hardly believe her good fortune. All her life Jerusha has lived at the drearyJohn Grier Home for orphans. Now that she's seven

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    Marie

    H. Rider Haggard · 1912 · Romance

    This is the first in a trilogy about the adventures of Allan Quartermain that he wrote in his later years and were published after his death by a friend of his. Marie was a young Dutch girl living in

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    Desert Gold

    Zane Grey · 1913 · Romance

    A border town like Casita is no place for a drifter - especially a rich man's son looking for adventure. From the moment Dick Gale steps into the stinking, sun-baked hellhole of gambling and corruptio

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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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    The Lone Star Ranger

    Zane Grey · 1914 · Romance

    Buck becomes a Texas outlaw when he kills a man in self-defense. His troubles don’t end there, though. When he is seen trying to rescue a young girl being held prisoner in Mexico, he incurs the anger

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    The Street of Seven Stars

    Mary Roberts Rinehart · 1914 · Romance

    From the book:The old stucco house sat back in a garden, or what must once have been a garden, when that part of the Austrian city had een a royal game preserve. Tradition had it that the Empress Mari

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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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