Nobara no Julie - Recommendations

• Vol: 1
• 2015

Charles Dickens's Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an English orphan who rises to wealth, deserts his true friends, and becomes humbled by his own arrogance. It also introduces one of the more colorful characters in literature: Miss Havisham. Dickens set Great Expectations during the time that England was becoming a wealthy world power. Machines were making factories more productive, yet people lived in awful conditions.

• Vol: 10; Ch: 49
• 2007 - 2011

Chris is a tomboy whose relatives send her away to a boarding school after her father dies. As she grows up in Victorian England, Chris must decide whether to give in to what society expects of her, or to challenge it and follow her own dreams.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 10
• 2016

As an orphaned child, Jane Eyre is first cruelly treated by her aunt, then cast out and sent to a charity school. Though she meets with further hardship, she receives an education and eventually takes a job as a governess at the estate of Edward Rochester. Jane and Mr. Rochester begin to bond, but his dark moods trouble her. When Jane uncovers the terrible secret Rochester has been hiding, she flees and finds temporary refuge at the home of St. John Rivers.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 12
• 2017 - 2020

Mysterious spirits from the Lethe Valley have invaded 19th century Paris and are stealing words from people. Poetry, however, can defeat these spirits. Blighted by the spirits, famed poet Baudelaire faces a fate worse than death and decides to teach Cocteau, an illiterate orphan, poetry after sensing a hidden talent in him. But, can Cocteau learn poetry when he can’t even read? Why do these spirits from the Lethe Valley steal words from people?

• Vol: 1
• 1990

When Heidi is left in the care of her grandfather, a mountain hermit with a bad reputation, the child falls in love with her new rural home and adores her gruff but good-hearted grandparent. For Heidi no place will ever be home but her dear mountains the Alps.

• Vol: 5
• 1982 - 1984

Through the biography of the French sovereign Henri Troyat, Ikeda Ryoko decides to transpose the life, the loves and the diplomatic corps of "Catherine the Great" to paper. The result is a historical fresco of rare fidelity to the original story.

• Vol: 12
• 1979 - 1987

Corinne is a lively girl who lives in a poor orphanage in the romantic France at the end of 19th century. Her neighbor is a wealthy nobleman named Richard, who unfortunately has lost his sight at a young age. Corinne's kindness has brought warmth to Richard's frozen heart, and he fell in love with her even though he does not know her appearance. However, Richard's friend Alain, who is also a nobleman, also fell in love with Corinne. He is determined to win her heart at any cost, including pressuring her and lying to her.

• Vol: 1
• 1966

The events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather's care, in the Swiss Alps. Based on the famous children's book chronicling the adventures of the carefree girl Heidi in the Swiss Alps and her friendship with a sickly city girl.

• Vol: 1
• 2015

Mountain girl Heidi's heart belongs to the Alm, where she lives with her grandfather and spends her days with goatherd Peter and his flock of goats. When her relative Dete takes her away and places her in a wealthy household to be a companion to a rich man's wheelchair-bound daughter, Heidi is constantly criticised by the head housekeeper for her unrefined ways. For the sake of her new friend she tries to hold in her overwhelming homesickness, but all Heidi wants is to return to her grandfather where she belongs.

• Vol: 4; Ch: 76
• 2016 - 2018

Two siblings who were separated at a young age due to the death of their parents reunite again with many mysteries muddling their past.