The Lifted Veil / Brother Jacob
9 best books like The Lifted Veil / Brother Jacob (George Eliot): Cranford, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales, Richard II, At Swim-Two-Birds, Nostromo, The Major Works: Including Astrophil and Stella, Belinda, The Journey Through Wales & The Description of Wales, Castle Rackrent
| Author | Elizabeth Gaskell |
| ISBN | 0141439882 |
'It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor...I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant things are!'
A portrait of the residents of an English country town in the mid nineteenth century, Cranford relates the adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters...
| Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| ISBN | 0199536228 |
Robert Louis Stevenson's short novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, first published in 1886, became an instant classic, a Gothic horror originating in a feverish nightmare whose hallucinatory setting in the back streets of London gripped a nation mesmerized by crime and violence. Its revelatory ending...
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0198320043 |
Tragedy of King Richard II , William Shakespeare
King Richard the Second is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in approximately 1595. It is based on the life of King Richard II of England (ruled 1377–1399) and is the first part of a tetralogy, referred to by some...
A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birds is the story of a young, lazy, and frequently drunk Irish college student who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle in Dublin. When not in bed (where he seems to spend most of his time) or reading he is composing a mischief-filled novel...
| Author | Joseph Conrad |
| ISBN | 0486424529 |
Nostromo, Joseph Conrad’s South American novel reminds me somehow of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, perhaps the setting of mines in South America.
The underlying political ideologies are also reminiscent to some extent on Rand’s objectivism, and both author’s guileless mistrust...
| Author | Philip Sidney |
| ISBN | 0192840800 |
This authoritative edition brings together a unique combination of Sidney's poetry and prose--all the major writing, complemented by letters and elegies--that reveals the essence of his work and thinking.
Born in 1554, Sir Philip Sidney was hailed as the perfect Renaissance patron, soldier,...
| Author | Maria Edgeworth |
| ISBN | 0192837095 |
The lively comedy of this novel in which a young woman comes of age amid the distractions and temptations of London high society belies the challenges it poses to the conventions of courtship, the dependence of women, and the limitations of domesticity. Contending with the perils and the varied cast...
| Author | Gerald of Wales |
| ISBN | 0140443398 |
Gerald of Wales was one of the most dynamic and colorful churchmen of the 12th century. His JOURNEY describes a mission to Wales undertaken in 1188 by Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury, with Gerald as his companion. THE DESCRIPTION provides a picture of the day-to-day existence of ordinary Welshmen...
Set in Ireland prior to its achieving legislative independence from Britain in 1782, Castle Rackrent tells the story of three generations of an estate--owning family as seen through the eyes—and as told in the voice—of their longtime servant, Thady Quirk, recorded and commented on by an anonymous...
