The Heart of Mid-Lothian

7 best books like The Heart of Mid-Lothian (Walter Scott): In a Glass Darkly, The Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The Mill on the Floss, American Indian Myths and Legends, The Life and Death of St Kilda, Carnival Row: Tangle in the Dark

In a Glass Darkly

Author	J. Sheridan Le Fanu
ISBN	0192839470

This remarkable collection of stories, first published in 1872, includes Green Tea, The Familiar, Mr. Justice Harbottle, The Room in the Dragon Volant, and Carmilla. The five stories are purported to be cases by Dr. Hesselius, a 'metaphysical' doctor, who is willing to consider the ghosts both as...

The Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin

Author	Cornelius Ryan
ISBN	0684803291

The classic account of the final offensive against Hitler's Third Reich.

The Battle for Berlin was the culminating struggle of World War II in the European theater, the last offensive against Hitler's Third Reich, which devastated one of Europe's historic capitals and marked the final defeat...

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Author	James Hogg
ISBN	0192835904

Set in early eighteenth-century Scotland, the novel recounts the corruption of a boy of strict Calvinist parentage by a mysterious stranger under whose influence he commits a series of murders. The stranger assures the boy that no sin can affect the salvation of an elect person. The reader, while recognizing...

The Mill on the Floss

Author	George Eliot
ISBN	0141439629

'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?'

Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and her fierce intelligence bring her into constant conflict with her family....

American Indian Myths and Legends

Author

Richard Erdoes

This magnificent collection gathers 160 tales from 80 tribal gathers to offer a rich and lively panorama of the Native American mythic heritage. From all across the continent come tales of creation and love, of heroes and war, of animals, tricksters, and the end of the world. Alfonso Ortiz, an eminent...

The Life and Death of St Kilda

Author	Tom Steel
ISBN	0006373402

On 29 August 1930 the remaining 36 inhabitants of this bleak but spectacular island off Scotland's western coast took ship for the mainland. A community that had survived alone for centuries finally succumbed to the ravages that resulted from mainland contact. What their lives had been like century...

Carnival Row: Tangle in the Dark

Author

Stephanie K. Smith

Listening Length: 3 hours and 8 minutes

Tourmaline Larou lives an idyllic life of learning by day and partying by night. An aspiring poet, her future promises nothing less than brilliance.

Then, Vignette Stonemoss walks through the door, and Tourmaline’s world is upended.

As...