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The Romantic Fool

For everyone who has loved too much, tried too hard, or believed in something the world had already finished with. These are books about earnestness colliding with reality: dreamers, idealists, romantics, and innocents who refuse to be cynical even when cynicism would be easier. Some of them are destroyed by it. Some are redeemed. All of them are impossible not to love.

In the app a path keeps your place, marks what you have read, and hands you the next work when you are ready for it.

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The route

  • 1. Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes, 1605
  • 2. The Sorrows of Young WertherJohann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774
  • 3. Eugene OneginAlexander Pushkin, 1833
  • 4. White NightsFyodor Dostoevsky, 1848
  • 5. Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert, 1857
  • 6. The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
  • 7. The IdiotFyodor Dostoevsky, 1869
  • 8. A Hero of Our TimeMikhail Lermontov, 1840
  • 9. On The RoadJack Kerouac, 1957
  • 10. Don JuanLord Byron, 1824
  • 11. Love in the Time of CholeraGabriel García Márquez, 1985
  • 12. A Farewell to ArmsErnest Hemingway, 1929
  • 13. The Charterhouse of ParmaStendhal, 1839
  • 14. A Room With a ViewE.M. Forster, 1908
  • 15. Phineas FinnAnthony Trollope, 1869
  • 16. The CossacksLeo Tolstoy, 1863
  • 17. YouthLeo Tolstoy, 1857
  • 18. EpipsychidionPercy Bysshe Shelley, 1821
  • 19. The Courtship of Miles StandishHenry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1858
  • 20. HyperionHenry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1839