Miss Marjoribanks (Chronicles of Carlingford, #5)
By: Mrs. Oliphant , Margaret Oliphant
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Returning home to tend her widowed father Dr Marjoribanks, Lucilla soon launches herself into Carli…
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1. The Feast
By: Margaret Kennedy
3.93
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Initially was published in a shortened form in a 1949 Ladies Home Journal magazine under the title … read more
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- historical
- classics
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"She writes this biographical fiction, or fictional biography, whichever you like to call it. She takes some juicy scandal from the life of a famous person, and writes a novel round it. Any facts that…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"MYSELF: You have never understood. My integrity means more to me than happiness. CHRISTINA: You have none. There is no such thing. You are not a whole person. Nobody is. We are members one of another…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"[W]hen she was dying she asked me to promise never to leave Father. I couldn't refuse. It was the last thing she said. She was worried over what would happen to him. So you see!' 'How could she conde…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"What kind of books do you like?' 'I like books about nice people. And a story where it all comes out right in the end.' 'But Nancibel, that's not true to life.' 'I daresay not. Why should it be?' 'Yo…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
2. Cecilia
By: None , Margaret Anne Doody , Peter Sabor , Frances Burney , Annie Ellis
3.77
Format: 1056 pages, Paperback
Cecilia is an heiress, but she can only keep her fortune if her husband will consent to take her su… read more
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- british literature
- literature
- historical
- fiction
"...let me counsel you to remember that a lady, whether so called form birth or only from fortune, should never degrade herself by being put on a level with writers, and such sort of people."-None, Cecilia
"One indulgence alone from time to time I allow myself, - 'tis Music! which has power to delight me even to rapture! it quiets all anxiety, it carries me out of myself, I forget through it every calam…"-None, Cecilia
"This only unconcerned spectator in the midst of the apparent general bustle, was Mr Meadows; who viewed all that passed without troubling himself to interfere, and with an air of the most evident car…"-None, Cecilia
"Her next solicitude was to furnish herself with a well-chosen collection of books: and this employment, which to a lover of literature, young and ardent in its pursuit, is perhaps the mind's first lu…"-None, Cecilia
3. The Vagabond
By: Colette Gauthier-Villars , Judith Thurman , Enid McLeod
3.92
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Thirty-three years-old and recently divorced, Renée Néré has begun a new life on her own, supportin… read more
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- fiction
"So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days."-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Vagabond
"When are a 'lady on your own,' in other words the landlords' abomination, outcast and terror all rolled into one, you take what you find, lodge where you may, and put up with newly plastered walls."-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Vagabond
"Rest assured that long patience and jealously concealed sorrows have shaped, refined, and hardened that woman who makes people exclaim: "She's made of steel!" She's simply "made of woman," and that's…"-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Vagabond
"All this is still my kingdom, a small portion of the splendid riches which God distributes to passers-by, to wanderers and to solitaries. The earth belongs to anyone who stops for a moment, gazes and…"-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Vagabond
4. Jane and Prudence
By: Barbara Pym
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
If Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates seem an unlikely pair to be walking together at an Oxford reun… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- british literature
5. A Winter Away
By: Elizabeth Fair
4.02
Format: None pages,
"My last secretary was thirty-five," old M. said gloomily, "and no more sense than a child of ten. … read more
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- historical
- classics
- fiction
- british literature
6. Frenchman's Creek
By: Daphne du Maurier , Julie Myerson
3.98
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Bored and restless in London's Restoration Court, Lady Dona escapes into the British countryside wi… read more
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"You have no hobby then?" "Moths interest me, my lady."-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek
"I am notorious," said Dona, "for making unfortunate remarks."-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek
"—in reality it was escape she wanted, escape from her own self—"-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek
"I had become like a prisoner in chains, and the dungeon was deep."-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek
7. The Known World
By: Edward P. Jones
4.33
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, The Known Worldis a daring and ambitious work by… read more
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- fiction
8. The Unknown Ajax
By: Georgette Heyer
3.50
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
Miles from anywhere, Darracott Place is presided over by irascible Lord Darracott. The recent drown… read more
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- historical
- fiction
9. Cider With Rosie
By: Laurie Lee
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
At all times wonderfully evocative and poignant, Cider With Rosieis a charming memoir of Laurie Lee… read more
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10. Sister Carrie
By: Theodore Dreiser
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving h… read more
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11. The Solitary Summer
By: Elizabeth von Arnim
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
This delightful companion to the famousElizabeth and Her German Gardenis a witty, lyrical account o… read more
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12. Miss Marjoribanks (Chronicles of Carlingford, #5)
By: Mrs. Oliphant , Margaret Oliphant
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Returning home to tend her widowed father Dr Marjoribanks, Lucilla soon launches herself into Carli… read more
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- british literature
- literature
- historical
- 19th century
- victorian
- fiction
13. Ruth
By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Angus Easson
5.00
Format: None pages,
* Two of English writer Elizabeth Gaskell's best-selling books are bound together in this Kindle bo… read more
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14. The Golden Bowl
By: Henry James , Gore Vidal , Patricia Crick
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
'A thing to marvel at, a thing to be grateful for.'A rich American art-collector and his daughter M… read more
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15. Lolly Willowes
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more
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16. No Name
By: Wilkie Collins , None
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Mr Vanstone's daughters are Nobody's Children'. Magdalen Vanstone and her sister Norah learn the t… read more
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17. The Odd Women
By: George Gissing
4.41
Format: None pages, Paperback
A novel of social realism, The Odd Womenreflects the major sexual and cultural issues of the late n… read more
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18. Elizabeth and Her German Garden
By: Elizabeth von Arnim
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. "Elizabeth and Her German Garden," a novel… read more
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- british literature
- 19th century
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- fiction
"I shall not let myself be frightened away by the sarcasm of owls."-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
"We are none of us ever thankful enough, and yet we each get so much, so very much, more than we deserve."-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
", and there were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden, in spite of my years and children."-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
"Oh, I thought of calling it Journeyings in Germany. It sounds well, and would be correct. Or Jottings from German Journeyings--I haven't quite decided yet..."-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
19. The Two Mrs. Abbotts (Miss Buncle, #3)
By: D.E. Stevenson
3.94
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
Mrs Abbott is flustered at the thought of putting up a lady from the Red Cross, but is happily surp… read more
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20. The Fortnight in September
By: R.C. Sherriff
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The Fortnight in September embodies the kind of mundane normality the men in the dug-out longed for… read more
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