Stella Dallas
10 best books like Stella Dallas (Olive Higgins Prouty): Bhowani Junction, Celebrity, The Rosemary Tree, The Captain, Billy Budd and Other Tales, The Traitors' Gate, A Modern Instance, The True Meaning of Cleavage, The Judgement of Strangers, Katherine's Marriage
| Author | John Masters |
| ISBN | 0285636049 |
John Masters evokes the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India in his classic novel Bhowani Junction. Set in the late 1940's in the wake of partition it has become one of the great novels of India, alongside E.M. Forster's A Passage to India and the work of Paul Scott and Salman...
| Author | Thomas Thompson |
| ISBN | 0446322164 |
They were princes...
The royalty of their 1950 high school graduating class--three promising young men who were, without a doubt, most likely to succeed.
And they did succeed.
In films, in journalism and in charismatic religion, they reached that dazzling, dangerous...
| Author | Elizabeth Goudge |
| ISBN | 0515041475 |
Michael Stone was once a famous author. That was before he went to prison. Now, just released, he needs to get his bearings and a new beginning. It was a gray day in early April when Michael stumbled wearily into the tiny English village. Weighed down by failure and despair, the town of Silverbridge seems...
| Author | Jan de Hartog |
| ISBN | 0709031106 |
The book centers around the specialized Ocean tugboat trade. In 1940 Harinxma, then a young tugboat officer, escapes to Britain. The Kwel company has managed to get away much of its fleet and personnel, one jump ahead of the advancing Germans, and sets up to continue operations from London. Harinxma...
| Author | Herman Melville |
| ISBN | 0451526872 |
Unbelievably, Melville had a hard time making a living from his writing.
[That was sarcasm.]
His style is overly archaic. I read a fair amount of classic literature, but this is just ridiculous. In the mid to late 19th century, were people still saying "Hark!"? And "Blah, blah,...
John Huffam is sure the tall man's beard is false. He's sure of little else in November 1849, the year he is fourteen, the year his father is sentenced to London's Whitecross Street Prison.
Maybe the man following John -- who claims to be one Inspector Copperfield -- can explain why. Surely, Pa...
| Author | William Dean Howells |
| ISBN | 0140390278 |
A Modern Instance is a realistic novel written by William Dean Howells, and published in 1882 by J. R. Osgood & Co. The novel is about the deterioration of a once loving marriage under the influence of capitalistic greed. It is the first American novel by a canonical author to seriously consider divorce...
| Author | Mariah Fredericks |
| ISBN | 0689869584 |
Cool is cool and geek is geek, and at Eldridge the two "definitely" do not mix.Sari and Jess are best friends and total opposites. They've liked each other ever since they discovered that they are the only two normal people at Eldridge Alternative. As they prepare to face the trials of ninth grade, Sari...
The second novel of the trilogy is the story of David Byfield, a widowed parish priest with a dark past and a darker future. Set in 1970 in a commuter village near London, the novel explores the consequences of Byfield's second marriage.
Roth is not so much a village as a suburban state of mind....
| Author | D.E. Stevenson |
| ISBN | 0006132847 |
Readers who discovered Katherine Wentworth and Alec MacLaren in Katherine Wentworth will be delighted to learn more about this lively pair. Those who are meeting them for the first time will find that this romantic story stands independently and beautifully on its own.
The story opens with...
| Author | Emma Smith |
| ISBN | 1903155231 |
In September 1946 23-year-old Emma Smith set sail for India, to work as an assistant with a documentary unit making films about tea gardens in Assam. She was dazzled by India ...
‘I went down the gangplank at Bombay, and India burst upon me with the force of an explosion.’
... and...
| Author | Kenneth Roberts |
| ISBN | 0892723866 |
The second of Roberts's epic novels of the American Revolution, Rabble in Arms was hailed by one critic as the greatest historical novel written about America upon its publication in 1933. Love, treachery, ambition, and idealism motivate an unforgettable cast of characters in a magnificent novel...
| Author | Rumer Godden |
| ISBN | 0688117228 |
Rating: 3.875* of five
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When I was a youngster, my mother had a lot of books from the 1930s to the 1960s on her shelves. I was allowed to roam freely among them, because she said that if I was old enough to want to read something, I should...
| Author | Thomas H. Cook |
| ISBN | 0553580671 |
It is autumn 1937 when a mystery woman appears in Port Alma, a sea village nestled on the chilly coast of Maine. A fragile, green-eyed beauty, the woman arrives with little more than the clothes on her back and a wealth of unspoken secrets.
Before a year goes by, she will flee Port Alma on the same...
The Property of a Gentleman
| Author | Catherine Gaskin |
| ISBN | 0385039344 |
"There had been no thought of refusal when Gerald had suggested that I join him on this visit, seemingly casual, unbidden so far as I was concerned, to Thirlbeck, home of Robert Birkett, 18th Earl of Askew, where we might find treasures, or perhaps – in Gerald’s favourite phrases – a load of old rubbish."...
| Author | Samuel Shellabarger |
| ISBN | 1882593626 |
I picked up this book after reading a series of literary novels full of dense prose, subtle metaphors and much-ado-about nothing. I needed an escape. And I was not disappointed, for this novel is the classic tale of the hero who escapes his home in the Old World, makes his fortune in the New World and returns...
| Author | Lewis Carroll |
| ISBN | 0785813268 |
Lewis Carroll spells magic! The celebrated author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1872), Charles Lutwidge Dodson used the pen name Lewis Carroll to weave fanciful stories and poems for an appreciative world audience of children and adults.Now in one volume...
| Author | Belva Plain |
| ISBN | 0440175623 |
From a quiet turn-of-the-century village in upstate New York to war-torn London, from the bedsides of the rural poor to the life-and-death urgency of a great New York City hospital, this is a powerful epic of three generations of doctors in one magnificent family. The Farrells--dedicated, brilliant.....
| Author | Mervyn Peake |
| ISBN | 0099283263 |
Equipped with love, Mr Harold Pye lands on the island of Sark, his mission to convert the islanders into a crusading force for the undiluted goodness that he feels within. The extraordinary inhabitants of the island range from the formidable Miss George in her purple busby to the wanton, raven-haired...
