James Joyce · 1914
- What it is
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Slow and sad, in the good way
- Genre
- Classics Literary
- Feels
- Lyrical Raw Funny Melancholic Unflinching
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If you're after something slow and sad, in the good way, start here
Thousand Ships
Natalie Haynes · 2019
Sadness on a low heat · it hits hard
The great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2011
Sad, and in no hurry · love hurts sometimes
Grief is the thing with feathers
Max Porter · 2015
Sadness on a low heat · a good honest cry
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez · 1997
Sad, and in no hurry · laughing so you don't cry
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Seize the Day (Penguin Classics)
Saul Bellow · 1956
A reader shelved it with yours in Novels set in a single day
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1941
A good honest cry
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