5/11/2023 0 Comments Book normal people![]() ![]() Even more than Pride and Prejudice, this novel has an awful lot in common with Sally Rooney’s Normal People. While there are many modern books like Normal People, it’s never a bad idea to go back and enjoy one of English literature’s best-loved authors, especially when she can offer us Pride and Prejudice, one of the best books like Normal People.īuy a copy of Pride and Prejudice here! North and South by Elizabeth GaskellĪ criminally underrated novel that shares much of Pride and Prejudice’s DNA is one of my favourite 19th century novels: Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South. ![]() With that in mind, fans of Normal People would do well to travel back in time and build a happy stack of Jane Austen novels to work through.Īnd it works out nicely that most Austen fans would recommend beginning with her most famous work: Pride and Prejudice, which also happens to be the Austen book that is most like Normal People. And no writer today does the same thing better than Sally Rooney. I’d go so far as to call Rooney the Austen of the 21st century.įans of Austen’s novels, especially Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, and Emma, know that Austen was as interested in satirising the class politics and social dynamics of her period as she was in telling a good love story or family drama.Īusten was a genius at deconstructing and poking fun at those wrapped up in class politics. I’ve seen some, but perhaps not enough, comparisons between Sally Rooney and Jane Austen. ![]()
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