The Moorland Cottage
10 best books like The Moorland Cottage (Elizabeth Gaskell): The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, A Group of Noble Dames, Amos Barton, Lesley Castle, Hide and Seek, Aurora Floyd, A House to Let, Candleford Green, Helen, Second Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow
| Author | George Meredith |
| ISBN | 0140434836 |
Of all nineteenth-century English novels, " claims Edward Mendelson in his Introduction to this edition, "The Ordeal of Richard Feverel is the most self-consciously literary in its style and structure and the most sexually explicit in its plot and theme." First published in 1859, Meredith's first...
| Author | Thomas Hardy |
| ISBN | 1406924660 |
(I wonder if Agatha Christie read this book. It certainly reminded me of one of her books - a group of people swap mystery stories one evening?) Hardy gets his people together to swap stories about notable women. I like this method a lot, it gives a theme and continuity to the stories - something I miss in...
| Author | George Eliot |
| ISBN | 1843910519 |
Published as part of George Eliot’s fictional debut, Amos Barton is an honest and expressive work, displaying the same warm irony and keen observations that distinguish so many of her later novels. Parson Amos Barton is responsible not only for the spiritual welfare of his flock, but also for his...
| Author | Jane Austen |
| ISBN | 1843911159 |
This inspired novella, with its outrageous cast of superficial characters, brilliantly showcases Jane Austen's comic genius. Presented here with A History of England and Catharine. As Miss Margaret Lesley and Miss Charlotte Lutterell divulge their innermost secrets through a series of letters,...
| Author | Wilkie Collins |
| ISBN | 1846370272 |
The girl named Mary -- they called her Madonna, and she was deaf and dumb and beautiful as a painting by Raphael -- was a mystery. The Blyths adopted her from a kindly old woman connected to a traveling circus, but everyone knew she wasn't from circus folk. All they DID know about her identity was that she'd...
| Author | Mary Elizabeth Braddon |
| ISBN | 0192837273 |
Mary Elizabeth Braddon has been having something of a moment recently, on the back of the current interest in Victorian sensation fiction. Lady Audley’s Secret (1862), Aurora Floyd (1863), and The Doctor’s Wife (1864) have both recently been republished in critical editions, by Oxford World’s...
| Author | Charles Dickens |
| ISBN | 1843910853 |
Compiled by Charles Dickens, and including chapters by Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins and Adelaide Anne Procter, A House to Let is a composite tale of mystery and intrigue set amid the dark streets of Victorian London. Advised by her doctor to have a change of scenery, the elderly Sophonisba takes...
| Author | Flora Thompson |
| ISBN | 0753157314 |
Flora Thompson's semi-autobiographical Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy is known and loved the world over for its gentle depiction of rural life in Oxfordshire in the late 19th century, a way of life that was soon to vanish forever as mechanisation took over farming. In the final book, Laura in her early...
| Author | Maria Edgeworth |
| ISBN | 0497982730 |
Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-French thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of Helen by Maria Edgeworth was edited for three audiences. The first includes French-speaking...
I think Jerome K. Jerome (curious name) is somewhat misrepresented as a humour author. His essays are certainly readable, and there's frequent humour ("He listened to me in rapt ecstasy. I might have been music.") but he's often capable of serious thoughtful comments about our habits and society in...
| Author | Arnold Bennett |
| ISBN | 1600962068 |
Anna, a woman of reserve and integrity, lives with her tyrannical and selfish father. Courted for her money by the handsome and successful Henry Mynors, Anna defies her father's wrath--with tragic results. Set in the Potteries against a background of dour Wesleyan Methodism, Anna of the Five Towns...
| Author | Anthony Trollope |
| ISBN | 0192818465 |
In "Miss Mackenzie" Trollope made a deliberate attempt "to prove that a novel may be produced without any love," but as he candidly admits in his "Autobiography," the attempt "breaks down before the conclusion."
In taking for his heroine an middle-aged spinster, his contemporaries of writing...
| Author | Honoré de Balzac |
| ISBN | 2253193054 |
They lowered their voices and walked away in order to talk more at their ease on some retired couch. Never was a more promising mine laid open to seekers after mysteries. No one knew from what country the Lanty family came, nor to what source--commerce, extortion, piracy, or inheritance--they owed a...
Hello and welcome to the first book ever written by a dog - me, Miss Peggy Hart. I just couldn't wait any longer for Miranda's book all about me (Peggy and Me) to come out in October so decided to release my own book ahead of Miranda, and here it is! It turns out I am not just pretty face. And what a pretty face I...
| Author | Malcolm McNeill |
| ISBN | 1782690905 |
A MYSTERY NO ONE CAN SOLVE
The Vanishings started without warning. People disappearing into thin air - just piles of clothes left behind. Each day, thousands gone without a trace.
A BABY NO ONE WANTED
Max was abandoned in a bookshop and grows up haunted by memories of his parents....
