Jonathan Wild
10 best books like Jonathan Wild (Henry Fielding): The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Kidnapped, The Stone Diaries, Larry's Party, Requiem for a Wren, Thirst for Love, Undine, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume II, Charles Dickens, Hide and Seek
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
| Author | Charles Dickens |
| ISBN | 0140439269 |
Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication, The Mystery of Edwin Drood is edited with an introduction by David Paroissien in Penguin Classics.
Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age,...
| Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| ISBN | 0439295785 |
Tricked by the uncle who has stolen his inheritance, young David Balfour is kidnapped and bound for America. Or at least that was the plan, until the ship runs into trouble and David is rescued by Alan Breck Stewart, fugitive Jacobite and, by his own admission, a ‘bonny fighter’. Balfour, a canny...
The Stone Diaries is one ordinary woman's story of her journey through life. Born in 1905, Daisy Stone Goodwill drifts through the roles of child, wife, widow, and mother, and finally into her old age. Bewildered by her inability to understand her place in her own life, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell...
| Author | Carol Shields |
| ISBN | 0679309519 |
Larry Weller, born in 1950, is an ordinary guy made extraordinary by his creator's perception, irony and tenderness. Carol Shields gives us, as it were, a CAT scan of his life, in episodes between 1977 and 1997 that flash back and forward seamlessly. As Larry journeys toward the millennium, adapting...
| Author | Nevil Shute |
| ISBN | 1842322869 |
Requiem for a Wren (U.S. title The Breaking Wave) is one of Nevil Shute's most poignant and psychologically suspenseful novels, set in the years just after World War II.
Sidelined by a wartime injury, fighter pilot Alan Duncan reluctantly returns to his parents' remote sheep station in Australia...
| Author | Yukio Mishima |
| ISBN | 0375705074 |
In Thirst for Love, Japan's greatest modern writer created a portrait of sexual torment and corrosive jealousy that is as delicately nuanced as Madame Bovary and as remorseless as Justine. Yukio Mishima's protagonist is Etsuko, whose philandering husband has died horribly from typhoid. The young...
| Author | Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte Fouqué |
"Most artistic of all the continental weird tales is the German classic Undine (1814), by Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Baron de la Motte FouquE. In this story of a water-spirit who married a mortal and gained a human soul there is a delicate fineness of craftsmanship which makes it notable in any department...
| Author | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| ISBN | 0553212427 |
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created.
Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan...
| Author | Jane Smiley |
| ISBN | 0670030775 |
With the delectable wit, unforgettable characters, and challenging themes that have won her a Pulitzer Prize and national bestseller status, Jane Smiley naturally finds a kindred spirit in the author of classics such as Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol. As "his novels shaped his life as much...
| Author | Wilkie Collins |
| ISBN | 1846370272 |
The girl named Mary -- they called her Madonna, and she was deaf and dumb and beautiful as a painting by Raphael -- was a mystery. The Blyths adopted her from a kindly old woman connected to a traveling circus, but everyone knew she wasn't from circus folk. All they DID know about her identity was that she'd...
