The Well-Beloved
By: Thomas Hardy
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set on the Isle of Slingers, this novel follows the exploits of Jocelyn Pierston, a sculptor who fa…
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1. Agnes Grey
By: Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau
3.71
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover edition can be found here. Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Bro… read more
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- romance
- classics
- british literature
- 19th century
- literature
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"Dakle,"-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"No one cares for the exterior."-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"But, God knows best, I concluded."-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"If you require perfection, you never will"-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
2. As a Man Grows Older
By: Italo Svevo , James Lasdun
3.49
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Not so long ago Emilio Brentani was a promising young author. Now he is an insurance agent on the f… read more
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"Visto che non gli era permesso di cercare Angiolina, il meglio che gli restava da fare era d'attaccarsi a chi nel suo pensiero era perennemente legato a lei."-Italo Svevo, As a Man Grows Older
"Ma, assorbito da quella musica, il suo grande dolore si coloriva, diveniva ancora più importante, pur facendosi semplice, puro, perché mondate d'ogni avvilimento."-Italo Svevo, As a Man Grows Older
"Egli la vide dinanzi a sé come su un altare, la personificazione del pensiero e del dolore e l'amò sempre, se amore è ammirazione e desiderio. Ella rappresentava tutto quello di nobile ch'egli in que…"-Italo Svevo, As a Man Grows Older
3. Cranford
By: Elizabeth Gaskell
3.81
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
'It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor...I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant thin… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- 19th century
- victorian
- fiction
4. Sir Harry Hotspur Of Humblethwaite
By: Anthony Trollope
2.50
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Since its first appearance in 1870, this has been regarded as one of Trollope's finest short novels… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- literature
- 19th century
- victorian
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5. Villette
By: Charlotte Brontë , A.S. Byatt , Μαρία Λαϊνά , Ignes Sodre
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Bronte's final novel … read more
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- romance
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6. The Professor
By: Charlotte Brontë
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Professor is Charlotte Brontes first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and con… read more
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- romance
- classics
- 19th century
- literature
- victorian
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7. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard , Wayne Koestenbaum
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented … read more
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- classics
8. A Dark Night's Work
By: Elizabeth Gaskell
3.62
Format: 32 pages,
A DARK NIGHT'S WORK, a short fiction novel, was written by Elizabeth Gaskell in 1863. read more
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- british literature
- 19th century
- victorian
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9. The Romance of the Forest
By: Ann Radcliffe
4.18
Format: 213 pages,
Set in a Roman Catholic Europe of violent passions and extreme oppression, the novel follows the fa… read more
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- romance
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- classics
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10. Under Western Eyes
By: Joseph Conrad
3.06
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Acclaimed as one of Conrad's finest literary achievements, this gripping novel deftly depicts the p… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
11. Martin Chuzzlewit
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Patricia Ingham
3.64
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Set partly in the United States, this novel includes a searing satire on mid-nineteenth-century Ame… read more
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- classics
- british literature
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- 19th century
- victorian
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12. The Europeans
By: Henry James , Tony Tanner , Patricia Crick
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Eugenia, the daughter of American expatriates, is the morganatic wife of a German prince, who is be… read more
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- literature
- 19th century
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13. Amerika
By: Franz Kafka
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Kafka's first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who,… read more
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- literature
- classics
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14. Daniel Deronda
By: George Eliot , Edmund White
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
George Eliot's final novel and her most ambitious work, Daniel Derondacontrasts the moral laxity of… read more
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- literature
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15. The Well-Beloved
By: Thomas Hardy
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set on the Isle of Slingers, this novel follows the exploits of Jocelyn Pierston, a sculptor who fa… read more
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- romance
- classics
- british literature
- 19th century
- literature
- victorian
- fiction
16. Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu
By: Honoré de Balzac
4.00
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
A Paris, au debut du XVIIe siecle, trois peintres devisent de leur art. L'un est un jeune inconnu, … read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
17. Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
By: René Girard , Yvonne Freccero
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
This study extends beyond the scope of literature into the psychology of much of our contemporary s… read more
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- literature
18. Shirley
By: Charlotte Brontë , Lucasta Miller , None , Jessica Cox
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Following the tremendous popular success of Jane Eyre,which earned her lifelong notoriety as a mora… read more
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19. The Gift
By: Vladimir Nabokov , Michael Scammell , Dmitri Nabokov
3.33
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
The Giftis the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native Russian and the crowning achievement … read more
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20. The Custom of the Country
By: Edith Wharton , Linda Wagner-Martin
3.61
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet… read more
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21. The Rainbow
By: D.H. Lawrence , Daphne Merkin
4.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
A controversial classic from D.H. Lawrence, the author of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Lush with religi… read more
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22. Nicholas Nickleby
By: Charles Dickens , Mark Ford
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
'I shall never regret doing as I have--never, if I starve or beg in consequence' When Nicholas Nick… read more
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23. Adam Bede
By: George Eliot , Joanna Trollope , Hugh Osborne
3.82
Format: 624 pages, Paperback
The story of a beautiful country girl's seduction by the local squire and its bitter, tragic sequel… read more
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"She hates everything that is not what she longs for."-George Eliot, Adam Bede
"Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle."-George Eliot, Adam Bede
"Our deeds determine us, as long as we determine our deeds"-George Eliot, Adam Bede
"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."-George Eliot, Adam Bede
24. Washington Square
By: Henry James , Michael Cunningham
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
The plot of Washington Squarehas the simplicity of old-fashioned melodrama: a plain-looking, good-h… read more
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25. The Aspern Papers
By: Henry James
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this classic 1888 novella, an anonymous narrator relates his obsessive quest to acquire some let… read more
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26. Women in Love (Brangwen Family, #2)
By: D.H. Lawrence
3.34
Format: None pages, Paperback
"An analytical study of sexual depravity" and "an epic of vice" were two of the critical expression… read more
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27. Sentimental Education
By: Gustave Flaubert , Geoffrey Wall , Robert Baldick
3.81
Format: 460 pages, Paperback
Based on Flaubert’s own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by… read more
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"Cheer up,' said the captain's son. 'Life is long, and we are young."-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
"A man so habituated to corruption that he would happily pay for the pleasure of selling himself."-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
"...I'm going to write a little novel entitled 'The History of the Idea of Justice' and won't it be funny!"-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
"It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find."-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
28. What Maisie Knew
By: Henry James , Paul Theroux , Patricia Crick
4.07
Format: 248 pages,
After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself turned into a 'little feather… read more
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29. Sons and Lovers
By: D.H. Lawrence , Geoff Dyer
3.86
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"She was a brazen hussy." "She wasn't. And she was pretty, wasn't she?" "I didn't look ... And tell… read more
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30. The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
By: Anthony Trollope , David Skilton
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Warden centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in p… read more
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"It is much less difficult for the sufferer to be generous than for the oppressor."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"... In what I do I may appear to be interfering with you, and I hope you will forgive me for doing so."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"He never quarreled with his wife, but he never talked to her;--he never had time to talk, he was so taken up with speaking."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts!"-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
31. Un amour de Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1.2)
By: Marcel Proust
4.29
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
Un amour de Swannest un fragment de A la recherche du temps perdu, la deuxieme partie de Du cote de… read more
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