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I could think of several more but I was trying to limit it to things that would also interest her boyfriend.
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10-12-2012, 08:42 PM | #32 |
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10-13-2012, 01:07 AM | #33 | |
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10-13-2012, 05:44 AM | #34 |
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Well it would depend on what's your definition of "Happy Ending". For example I would recommend "Gone with the wind" because of its ending seems happy enough for me.
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All of Dickens's novels have happy endings (with the arguable exception of "Great Expectations", perhaps).
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10-14-2012, 07:55 AM | #36 |
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I would disagree with the all happy endings statement. Or at least quite a few were very ambivalent. It was not a very happy ending for Stephen Blackpool and Rachael in Hard Times. Not a happy ending for Nancy, Fagin, or really anyone but the title character in Oliver Twist.
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10-14-2012, 09:23 AM | #38 |
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Certainly it is. He says himself that he's doing a good thing and he's going to heaven. Who could ask for more?
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10-14-2012, 10:06 PM | #41 |
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The Moonstone
It's described in my link as the first detective novel, whether or not that's true. Happy ending? Well, it's not ecstatically happy. But compared to A Tale of Two Cities, it ends quite nicely. Classic? Hmm. It's old, and it's fairly famous, but I'm on the fence with calling it a classic. Wilkie Collins was more a master of plot than characterization. I liked it, but I didn't feel myself to have touched perfection. Where The Moonstone shines, in terms of meeting purple_fishy's criteria, is in being far different from a Jane Austen book. |
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10-15-2012, 03:58 PM | #43 |
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Captain Blood: Pirates, lies, romance, cowards, stubbornness, bad luck, civil war, evil kings, slavery, horror, sword fights, dishonor, fire, betrayal, ship fights, turn arounds, a happy end in which the bad guy gets deliciously snubbed.
Floridly, giggle-inducing old-fashionedly written, which is part of the charm. The movie isn't half bad too but "the Sea Hawk", also with Errol Flynn, is better. |
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