L. M. Montgomery
The Blue Castle: what to read next?
Books close in genre, era, author or reading level, to read in bilingual editions.
Elizabeth von ArnimThe Enchanted AprilFour English women, tired of their monotonous lives, decide to rent a villa in Italy for a sunny getaway. Far from their routines, they discover a space of freedom where their personalities evolve and assert themselves. Between initial tensions and unexpected bonds, each…Same genreSame era
L. M. MontgomeryAnne of Green GablesAnne Shirley, a lively and imaginative orphan, is mistakenly sent to Marilla and Matthew, a brother and sister who were expecting a boy to help on the farm. Despite her blunders and passionate temperament, Anne gradually wins their hearts and those of the people around her.…By the same authorSame genreSame era
Maria DaviessBluegrass and BroadwayIn Kentucky, young Patricia Adair must save Rosemeade, the family home where her grandfather lives. She writes a play drawn from her great-grandmother’s love letters. In New York, the producer Godfrey Vandeford buys it without reading it: he wants it to fail, to teach his star…Same genreSame era
Sewell FordTorchy and VeeSeventeen linked comic stories, told by Torchy in the everyday speech of New York. Once a red-haired office boy, now private secretary to the president of a large company, Torchy is married to Vee and has a baby. The stories take place in 1918 and 1919, in New York and its…Same genreSame era
Alice RiceBilly Goat HillAn American novel. In Kentucky, early in the twentieth century, the old Thornwood mansion stands on Billy-goat Hill, a hill that the nearby city is slowly taking over. Colonel Bob Carsey lives there with his daughter, nicknamed Miss Lady, a free and joyful girl who has educated…Same genreSame era
Frances BurnettThe Secret GardenMary, a solitary and spoiled child, is sent to live in a large isolated estate after a family tragedy. There she discovers an abandoned garden, locked for years, which gradually becomes a refuge and a place of transformation. By exploring this secret space, she changes…Same genreSame era
Alfred OllivantOne WomanAn English novel, the second part of “a Romance of Sussex”. In 1908, in a seaside town in the south of England, Ruth, a former housemaid, marries Ernie Caspar, a working man who raises little Alice, born before their marriage, as his own daughter. The years pass: more children…Same genreSame era
Sabahattin AliMadonna in a Fur CoatAn unremarkable clerk, hired out of pity by a firm in Ankara, shares an office with Raif Efendi, a translator nobody knows anything about. When this man, old before his time, falls ill, he asks the young clerk to burn a black notebook, then lets him read it for one night. It…Same genreSame era
H. De Vere StacpooleThe Blue LagoonIn the nineteenth century, on the Pacific Ocean, the sailing ship carrying two eight-year-old cousins, Dick and Emmeline, towards San Francisco catches fire at sea. The children escape in a small boat with Paddy Button, an old Irish sailor, and the fog separates them from the…Same genreSame era
Harold MacGrathThe Place of HoneymoonsAn American romantic novel. Edward Courtlandt, a wealthy American, returns to Paris after two years in the jungles of Burma to see Nora Harrigan again, an Irish-American soprano who sings at the Opera under the name Eleonora da Toscana. When he forces his way into her…Same genreSame era
H. G. WellsAnn VeronicaAnn Veronica, a determined young woman, refuses to submit to rigid social expectations and seeks to live on her own terms. She leaves home to pursue her ambitions, facing judgment and obstacles. Her encounters and experiences confront her with the realities of the world and her…Same genreSame era
Grant AllenLinnetAn English novel. In the Ziller valley, in the Tyrol, two young Englishmen on their travels, Will Deverill, a poet and musician, and his friend Florian Wood, an affected aesthete, discover Linnet, a young cowherd from the mountain pasture who sings with an exceptional voice.…Same countrySame genreSame era