Cousin Henry
10 best books like Cousin Henry (Anthony Trollope): Blind Love, Scenes of Clerical Life, The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales, The Pirate, A Modern Comedy, Phoebe Junior, No Thoroughfare, The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories, The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., The Nether World
| Author | Wilkie Collins |
| ISBN | 0486251896 |
Blind Love is Wilkie Collin's final novel. Although he did not live to complete the work, he left detailed plans for the last third of this novel which were faithfully executed by his colleague, the popular author Sir Walter Besant. The novel is set during the Irish Land War of the early 1880s and tells...
My only merit must lie in the faithfulness with which I represent to you the humble experience of an ordinary fellow-mortal.
When Scenes of Clerical Life, George Eliot's first novel, was published anonymously in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in 1857, it was immediately recognized, in...
| Author | Thomas Hardy |
| ISBN | 0140431241 |
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Thomas Hardy's short stories reveal a literary persona, a creative intelligence and an imaginative vision uniquely and unmistakably his own. Those contained within this volume are among his finest and most representative...
| Author | Walter Scott |
| ISBN | 1402158653 |
El pirata, es una novela escrita por Walter Scott en 1822. Esta basada en la isla de Mainland, en las islas Shetland, Escocia, que Scott visito. Murdaunt, el unico hijo que tiene Mertoun, se embarcan rumbo a la isla de Mainland, para tener una nueva vida, pero Mertoun oculta su fantasmagorico pasado como...
| Author | John Galsworthy |
| ISBN | 0766194345 |
Back when I was a kid I read THE FORSYTE SAGA and then, in due course, A MODERN COMEDY. The first trilogy is all about Soames and Irene, whereas the second trilogy deals with Soames' daughter Fleur and her husband, Michael Mont. Many readers have rated the second trilogy as inferior to the first, but in my...
| Author | Mrs. Oliphant |
| ISBN | 0140161902 |
Phoebe Beecham's father is the Dissenting minister of a large, wealthy London chapel. (Her mother, born Phoebe Tozer of Carlingford, was a character in an earlier Carlingford novel Salem Chapel). Phoebe "Junior" is well educated, and has been raised to have the manners of a lady. When she goes on a long...
| Author | Charles Dickens |
| ISBN | 1426404972 |
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
| Author | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| ISBN | 0451530209 |
Of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s insight into the Puritan’s simultaneous need for fulfillment and self-destruction, D. H. Lawrence wrote, “Nathaniel knew disagreeable things in his inner soul. He was careful to send them out in disguise.” By means of artfully crafted and compelling tales, Hawthorne...
| Author | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| ISBN | 1406821373 |
Orphaned in the England of the later Stuarts, Henry Esmonde is raised by his aristocratic, Jacobite relatives the Castlewoods.
As a young man he falls in love with both Lady Castlewood and Beatrix, her beautiful, headstrong daughter, and is inspired to join the ultimately unsuccessful campaign...
| Author | George Gissing |
| ISBN | 0192837672 |
The Nether World (1889), generally regarded as the finest of Gissing's early novels, is a highly dramatic, sometimes violent tale of man's caustic vision shaped by the bitter personal experience of poverty. This tale of intrigue depicts life among the artisans, factory-girls, and slum-dwellers,...
| Author | Honoré de Balzac |
| ISBN | 0140442715 |
Characterized by amoral ruthlessness, the politics of A Murky Business would seem to bear out Balzac's questionable precept.
Set earlier than most of Balzac's Comedie Humaine, the novel covers the years 1803-6, when Napolean was making himself first Consul and then Emperor. The inclusion of...
| Author | Henry James |
| ISBN | 1595406492 |
The poor young man hesitated and procrastinated: it cost him such an effort to broach the subject of terms, to speak of money to a person who spoke only of feelings and, as it were, of the aristocracy. Yet he was unwilling to take leave, treating his engagement as settled, without some more conventional...
