Escape from the Antarctic (Penguin Great Journeys)

7 best books like Escape from the Antarctic (Penguin Great Journeys) (Ernest Shackleton): A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Every Man Dies Alone, Charlotte Gray, The Waves, The Painted Veil, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, Elizabeth and Her German Garden

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Author	Mary Wollstonecraft
ISBN	0141441259

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity,...

Every Man Dies Alone

Author	Hans Fallada
ISBN	1933633638

Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is the gripping tale of an ordinary man's determination to defy the tyranny of Nazi rule. This Penguin Classics edition contains an afterword by Geoff Wilkes, as well as facsimiles of the original Gestapo file which inspired the novel. Berlin,...

Charlotte Gray

Author	Sebastian Faulks
ISBN	0375704558

From the bestselling author of Birdsong comes Charlotte Gray, the remarkable story of a young Scottish woman who becomes caught up in the effort to liberate Occupied France from the Nazis while pursuing a perilous mission of her own.

In blacked-out, wartime London, Charlotte Gray develops...

The Waves

Author	Virginia Woolf
ISBN	0156949601

Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six characters—three men and three women—who are grappling with the death of a beloved friend, Percival. Instead of describing their outward expressions of grief, Virginia Woolf draws her characters from...

The Painted Veil

Author	W. Somerset Maugham
ISBN	0307277771

Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful, but love-starved Kitty Fane.

When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her youth and the small...

The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

Author	Angela Carter
ISBN	0140235191

Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his dreams. Meeting on his adventures a host of cannibals,...

Elizabeth and Her German Garden

Author	Elizabeth von Arnim
ISBN	0860684237

"Elizabeth and Her German Garden," a novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, was popular and frequently reprinted during the early years of the 20th century. "Elizabeth and Her German Garden" is a year's diary written by Elizabeth about her experiences learning gardening and interacting with her friends....