The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales
10 best books like The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales (Thomas Hardy): The Christmas Books, Volume 1: A Christmas Carol/The Chimes, Voyages and Discoveries: Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, Old Mortality, Thomas Hardy, Billy Budd and Other Tales, Nightmare Abbey; Crotchet Castle, Plays, Prose Writings and Poems, My Fantoms, Cousin Henry, Complete Works of George Eliot
| Author | Charles Dickens |
| ISBN | 0140430687 |
From the rear covers of these two volumes: "Dickens's 'Christmas Books' were all written for the Christmas market and published in the same format. Apart from this they have little in common; unless it is the emphasis they lay on family love and the delights of home, and the beneficial effects of memory....
Voyages and Discoveries: Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
| Author | Richard Hakluyt |
| ISBN | 0140430733 |
This volume is a selection of about ten percent of the material originally published by Richard Hakluyt, an Anglican priest whose literary career took place during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James the VI & I. It is not clear if this short version was achieved just by selecting the shorter accounts...
| Author | Walter Scott |
| ISBN | 0140430989 |
Perhaps the finest and certainly the most readable of Scott's Waverley novels, Old Mortality is a swift-moving historical romance that pits an anachronistically liberal hero against the forces of fanaticism in seventeenth-century Scotland - the period notorious as "the killing time." Its central...
| Author | Claire Tomalin |
| ISBN | 1594201188 |
The novels of Thomas Hardy have a permanent place on every booklover's shelf, yet little is known about the interior life of the man who wrote them. A believer and an unbeliever, a socialist and a snob, an unhappy husband and a desolate widower, Hardy challenged the sexual and religious conventions of...
| 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,...
| Author | Thomas Love Peacock |
| ISBN | 0140430458 |
Thomas Love Peacock is literature's perfect individualist.
He has points in common with Aristophanes, Plato, Rabelais, Voltaire, and even Aldous Huxley, but resembles none of them; we can talk of the satirical novel of ideas, but his satire is too cheery and good-natured, his novel too rambling,...
| Author | Oscar Wilde |
| ISBN | 1857150422 |
Brilliant and tragic, decadent yet radical, a socialist dandy and a witty moralist, Oscar Wilde embodied all the contradictions of the 1890s. The scope of his genius is indicated in this volume by the inclusion of the period’s most scintillating comedy – The Importance of Being Earnest; its most...
Romantic provocateur, flamboyant bohemian, precocious novelist, perfect poet—not to mention an inexhaustible journalist, critic, and man-about-town—Théophile Gautier is one of the major figures, and great characters, of French literature.
In My Fantoms Richard Holmes, the celebrated...
| Author | Anthony Trollope |
| ISBN | 0192817841 |
Four years ago I started to read my first Trollope - 'Cousin Henry' - for a Classics Circuit tour. I didn't get on with the book, I didn't finish it, but I at least had the sense to write:
"I suspect that I may still come to love Trollope. I just need another time and another book."
When I saw...
This is the definitive Kindle Edition of the great writer's works, with every published novel, short story, novella and poem written by George Eliot, with beautiful illustrations and bonus texts.
Including:
* ALL 7 novels, with contents tables
* annotated with concise introductions...
| Author | William Cobbett |
| ISBN | 0140435794 |
Between 1821 and 1836 William Cobbett toured the southern English countryside by foot and on horseback, and Rural Rides is his remarkable account of what he saw. A prolific writer and journalist of genius, Cobbett matured into a radical left-wing politician, and a farmer who ensured his labourers...
The Life to Come and Other Stories
| Author | E.M. Forster |
| ISBN | 0393304426 |
The fourteen stories in this book span six decades—from 1903 to 1957 or even later—and represent every phase of Forster's career as a writer. Only two have ever been published, and those only in magazines to which few people have easy access.
Two very different reasons caused the other...
| Author | Marcos Giralt Torrente |
| ISBN | 1938073568 |
In this quartet of mesmerizing stories, Marcos Giralt Torrente explores the confounding, double-edged promise of love. Each finds a man carefully churning over his past, trying to fathom how the distance between people can become suddenly unbridgeable.
Two tourists visit a remote island...
| Author | Elizabeth Stoddard |
| ISBN | 0140436510 |
Elizabeth Stoddard combines the narrative style of the popular nineteenth-century male-centered bildungsroman with the conventions of women's romantic fiction in this revolutionary exploration of the conflict between a woman's instinct, passion, and will, and the social taboos, family allegiances,...
| Author | Gamini Salgado |
| ISBN | 0140430067 |
This wonderful Penguin Classic: Three Jacobean Tragedies s a gem; The White Devil The Revenger's Tragedy, and the Changeling. By the early seventeenth century Renaissance humanism had reached a crisis.; The period of mental unrest, and the sense of moral corruption and ambiguity that followed,...
| Author | Daniel Defoe |
| ISBN | 0140430660 |
Let's pause for a second and consider the concept of the gap year. That glorious 12 month sojourn away from home before you return to the damp British shoreline to commence a university education (one senses that in the light of tuition fee hikes and fuel price rises that gap years and university educations...
| Author | Edna O'Brien |
| ISBN | 0753813084 |
In these selections from twenty years of her best short fiction, Edna O'Brien pulls the reader into a woman's experience. Her stories portray a young Irish girl's view of obsessive love and its often wrenching pain, while tales of contemporary life show women who open themselves to sexuality, to disappointment,...
Works of Honore de Balzac
Table of Contents
List of Works by Genre and Title
List of Works in Alphabetical Order
Honore de Balzac Biography
La Com?die Humaine: Scenes From Private Life:
The Ball at Sceaux
The Purse
Madame Firmiani
A Second Home
Domestic Peace
Paz or The Imaginary...
Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America
| Author | J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur |
| ISBN | 0140390065 |
America’s physical and cultural landscape is captured in these two classics of American history. Letters provides an invaluable view of the pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary eras; Sketches details in vivid prose the physical setting in which American settlers created their history.
For...
Crime And Punishment; The Gambler; Notes From The Underground
| Author | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| ISBN | 1851527176 |
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Of all the Russians I’ve read so far, Dostoyevsky is by far the most challenging, and “Crime and Punishment” his most difficult work. I did not at all enjoy any of it. Let me acknowledge at the outset that the fault lies not in the book but in my...
| Author | Italo Svevo |
| ISBN | 1843910586 |
Influenced by the rise of the science of psychology and the turmoil of the early 20th century, A Perfect Hoax is an ironic and affectionate story of illusion, self-deception, and impracticality in a practical world. Mario Samigli is in his seventies; he has all but given up his cherished aspirations...
| Author | Kevin Canty |
| ISBN | 0385525850 |
Kevin Canty is a master of the short story whose work has been compared to that of Flannery O’Connor and Raymond Carver. In Where the Money Went, he surprises us with stories about love and the desertion of love, all written from a man’s point of view. Rarely is a man so revealing.
A narrator...
