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Wuthering Heights (Classic Lines)
Sara Singh - Sterling
Format: Paperback
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Lush, romantic, and wildly passionate: Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, the tale of two soul mates separated by class and society, has seduced readers for generations and inspired countless adaptations. |
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North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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Mary Gaskell's North and South examines the nature of social authority and obedience and provides an insightful description of the role of middle class women in nineteenth century society. Through the story of Margaret Hale, a southerner who moves to the northern industrial town of Milton,... |
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The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins - Knopf
Format: Print book
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Wilkie Collins's classic thriller took the world by storm on its first appearance in 1859, with everything from dances to perfumes to dresses named in honor of the "woman in white." The novel's continuing fascination stems in part from a distinctive blend of melodrama, comedy,... |
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A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens - Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
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'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...' Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities portrays a world on fire, split between Paris and London during the brutal and bloody events of the French Revolution. After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging... |
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Middlemarch
George Eliot - Harcourt
Format: Paperback
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"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual... |
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The Diary Of A Nobody
George Grossmith - Ulverscroft Large Print Books
Format: Paperback
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1880s: Charles Pooter is a middle-aged clerk in London, a 'Nobody' who aspires to be a 'Somebody'. In a diary covering fifteen months of his life, and that of his family, friends and acquaintances, we meet a man who is, in turns, hard-working, loyal, honest - and vain, pompous and gullible.... |
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The Diary of a Nobody
George Grossmith - Prion
Format: Book
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"Why should I not publish my diary? I have often seen reminiscences of people I have never even heard of, and I fail to see, because I do not happen to be a "Somebody," why my diary should not be interesting." So wrote the anxious, accident-prone, occasionally waspish,... |
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy - Knopf
Format: Print book
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Set in the magical Wessex landscape so familiar from Thomas Hardy's early work, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is unique among his great novels for the intense feeling that he lavished upon his heroine, Tess, a pure woman betrayed by love. Hardy poured all of his profound empathy for both... |
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King Solomon's Mines
H Rider Haggard - Blackstone Audio
Format: Audiobook
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H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was a pioneer in the genre of imaginative fiction. His legendary adventure novels -- set in Africa, South America and other exotic locales -- have entertained generations of readers.An excerpt from King Solomon's Mines:CHAPTER II MEET SIR HENRY CURTISIt is a curious... |
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Three Men in a Boat
Martin Jarvis - Naxos AudioBooks
Format: Audio CD
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Three men, worried about their health and in search of different experiences, set off up the river in a boat. Jerome's delightful novel, dating from 1900 paints a vivid picture of innocent fun. |
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: And Other Tales of Terror
Robert Louis Stevenson - Penguin books
Format: Paperback
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Stevenson's famous exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evilDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde have become synonymous with the idea of a split personality. More than a morality tale, this dark psychological fantasy is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class,... |
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Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray - New American Library
Format: Paperback
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Chronicles the exploits of Becky Sharp, an unscrupulous young woman who is determined to achieve wealth and social success |
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Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero
William Makepeace Thackeray - Modern Library
Format: Book
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"I do not say there is no character as well drawn in Shakespeare [as D'Artagnan]. I do say there is none that I love so wholly."--Robert Louis Stevenson"The lasting and universal popularity of The Three Musketeers shows that Dumas, by artlessly expressing his own nature in the persons... |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde - Modern Library
Format: Paperback
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Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author's most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused a scandal when it rst appeared... |
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Brontë
Format: Book
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Over a short period in the 1840s, the three Bronte sisters working in a remote English parsonage produced some of the best-loved and most-enduring of all novels: Charlotte's Jane Eyre, Emily's Wuthering Heights, and Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, a book that created a sca |
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Brontë
Format: Book
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Over a short period in the 1840s, the three Bronte sisters working in a remote English parsonage produced some of the best-loved and most-enduring of all novels: Charlotte's Jane Eyre, Emily's Wuthering Heights, and Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, a book that created a sca |
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Barchester Towers
Anthony Trollope - Knopf
Format: Print book
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Anthony Trollope was well aware that the seemingly parochial power struggles that determine the action of Barchester Towers -- struggles whose comic possibilities he exploits to hilarious effect -- actually went to the heart of mid-Victorian English society, and had, in other times and other... |
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Barchester Towers
Anthony Trollope - Knopf
Format: Print book
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Anthony Trollope was well aware that the seemingly parochial power struggles that determine the action of Barchester Towers -- struggles whose comic possibilities he exploits to hilarious effect -- actually went to the heart of mid-Victorian English society, and had, in other times and other... |
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