The History of Mr. Polly

10 best books like The History of Mr. Polly (H.G. Wells): Kim, Zuleika Dobson, Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog: The funny, heartbreaking memoir of losing a family and gaining a dog, Migraine, The Panopticon, A Handful of Dust, The Old Wives' Tale, Peter Pan: or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up: A Fantasy in Five Acts, Miss Lonelyhearts, Where Did It All Go Right?: Growing Up Normal in the 70s

Kim

Author	Rudyard Kipling
ISBN	0140183523

Kim is set in an imperialistic world; a world strikingly masculine, dominated by travel, trade and adventure, a world in which there is no question of the division between white and non-white.

Two men - a boy who grows into early manhood and an old ascetic priest, the lama - are at the center of...

Zuleika Dobson

Author

Max Beerbohm

One woman's beauty fells the whole of Oxford in this sidesplitting classic campus novel.

Nobody could predict the consequences when ravishing Zuleika Dobson arrives at Oxford, to visit her grandfather, the college warden. Formerly a governess, she has landed on the occupation of prestidigitator,...

Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog: The funny, heartbreaking memoir of losing a family and gaining a dog

Author

Emily Dean

The funny, heart-breaking, wonderfully told story of love, family and overwhelming loss which led Emily Dean to find hope and healing in the dog she always wanted. Growing up with the Deans was a fabulous training ground for many things: ignoring unpaid bills, being the most entertaining guest at...

Migraine

Author

Oliver Sacks

The many manifestations of migraine can vary dramatically from one patient to another, even within the same patient at different times. Among the most compelling and perplexing of these symptoms are the strange visual hallucinations and distortions of space, time, and body image which migraineurs...

The Panopticon

Author	Jenni Fagan
ISBN	0434021776

Pa`nop´ti`con ( noun). A circular prison with cells so constructed that the prisoners can be observed at all times. [Greek panoptos 'seen by all'] Anais Hendricks, fifteen, is in the back of a police car, headed for the Panopticon, a home for chronic young offenders. She can't remember the events that...

A Handful of Dust

Author	Evelyn Waugh
ISBN	0316926051

Laced with cynicism and truth, "A Handful of Dust" satirizes a certain stratum of English life where all the characters have wealth, but lack practically every other credential. Murderously urbane, it depicts the breakup of a marriage in the London gentry, where the errant wife suffers from terminal...

The Old Wives' Tale

Author	Arnold Bennett
ISBN	0375754903

H.G. Wells described The Old Wives' Tale as "by far the finest long novel written in English and in the English fashion". He was, of course, speaking for his own generation, and a hundred years later the opinion may seem somewhat exaggerated. However, there is no doubt that The Old Wives' Tale is a superb...

Peter Pan: or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up: A Fantasy in Five Acts

Author	J.M. Barrie
ISBN	0822213451

This is the beloved story of Peter, Wendy, Michael, John, Capt. Hook, Smee, the lost boys, pirates and the indians, and, of course, Tinker Bell, in their adventures in Never Land. However, for the first time, the play is here restored to Barrie's original intentions. In the words of John Caird: "A brief...

Miss Lonelyhearts

Author

Nathanael West

As described by Atkinson in the NY Times: "A scornful feature editor of a newspaper picks an ambitious young reporter to conduct the advice of the lovelorn column. Ambitious, opportunistic, 'Miss Lonelyhearts,' as the conductor of the column is inevitably dubbed, begins with contempt of the correspondents...

Where Did It All Go Right?: Growing Up Normal in the 70s

Author	Andrew Collins
ISBN	0091894360

Andrew Collins was born 37 years ago in Northampton. His parents never split up, in fact they rarely exchanged a cross word. No-one abused him. Nobody died. He got on well with his brother and sister and none of his friends drowned in a canal. He has never stayed overnight in a hospital and has no emotional...