Deerbrook
9 best books like Deerbrook (Harriet Martineau): Cranford, Lady Audley's Secret, Adam Bede, The Moorland Cottage, The Lazy Tour Of Two Idle Apprentices, Poison, Shadow, and Farewell, Fever and Spear, Dance and Dream, Un viaje de novios
| Author | Elizabeth Gaskell |
| ISBN | 0141439882 |
'It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor...I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant things are!'
A portrait of the residents of an English country town in the mid nineteenth century, Cranford relates the adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters...
| Author | Mary Elizabeth Braddon |
| ISBN | 0192835203 |
whatever could be Lady Audley's secret? could it be... murder? miscegenation? malfeasance? misdirected malevolence ending in tears, tragedy, and general tawdriness? an assumed identity? flatulence? that not-so-fresh feeling? bigamy? bigotry? child abuse? child abandonment? une affaire...
| Author | George Eliot |
| ISBN | 0375759018 |
Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time.
The story's plot follows four characters' rural lives in the fictional community...
| Author | Elizabeth Gaskell |
| ISBN | 1843912023 |
Maggie Browne, the daughter of a deceased clergyman, is encouraged to give up her own life and passions and devote herself to her brother Edward. Through the example and guidance of her mother—who dotes on Edward constantly—and her mentor, Mrs. Buxton, Maggie learns that self-sacrifice is the...
| Author | Charles Dickens |
| ISBN | 1576467120 |
A delightful meditation on the pleasures of bachelor bonding and an example of collaborative journalism at its best
In autumn 1857, Charles Dickens embarked on a sightseeing trip to Cumberland with his friend, the rising star of literature Wilkie Collins. Writing together, they reported...
Poison, Shadow, and Farewell
| Author | Javier Marías |
| ISBN | 0811218120 |
Poison, Shadow, and Farewell, with its heightened tensions between meditations and noir narrative, with its wit and and ever deeper forays into the mysteries of consciousness, brings to a stunning finale Marías’s three-part Your Face Tomorrow. Already this novel has been acclaimed “exquisite“...
| Author | Javier Marías |
| ISBN | 0811216128 |
Part spy novel, part romance, part Henry James, Your Face Tomorrow is a wholly remarkable display of the immense writing gifts of Javier Marias. With Fever and Spear, Volume One of his unfolding novel Your Face Tomorrow, he returns us to the rarified world of Oxford (the delightful setting of All Souls...
Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias's dazzling unfolding magnum opus, is a novel in three parts, which began with Volume One: Fever and Spear. Described as a "brilliant dark novel" (Scotland on Sunday), the book now takes a wild swerve in its new volume. Skillfully constructed around a central perplexing...
What happens when a naïve, vivacious and innocent young woman in the late 19th century is married to an egotistical, impatient and insensitive man around twice her age? This is the situation at the heart of ‘Un Viaje de Novios.’ The Spanish naturalist novelist Emilia Pardo Bazan tells the story...
