The Pirate
10 best books like The Pirate (Walter Scott): The Mill on the Floss, The Black Arrow, Sentimental Education, Yerma, The Lazy Tour Of Two Idle Apprentices, A Group of Noble Dames, Deerbrook, Olalla, Poison, Shadow, and Farewell, Fever and Spear
| 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....
| Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| ISBN | 0543896609 |
From the beloved author of Treasure Island
Originally serialized in a periodical of boys' adventure fiction, The Black Arrow is a swashbuckling portrait of a young man's journey to discover the heroism within himself. Young Dick Shelton, caught in the midst of England's War of the Roses,...
| Author | Gustave Flaubert |
| ISBN | 0140447970 |
Based on Flaubert’s own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by its author as “the moral history of the men of my generation.” It follows the amorous adventures of Frederic Moreau, a law student who, returning home to Normandy from Paris, notices Mme Arnoux,...
| Author | Federico García Lorca |
| ISBN | 0713683260 |
Yerma (meaning 'Barren') is one of three tragic plays about peasants and rural life that make up Lorca's 'rural trilogy'. It is possibly Lorca's harshest play, following a woman's Herculean struggle against the curse of infertility. The woman's barrenness becomes a metaphor for her marriage in a...
| Author | Charles Dickens |
| ISBN | 1576467120 |
A delightful meditation on the pleasures of bachelor bonding and an example of collaborative journalism at its best
In autumn 1857, Charles Dickens embarked on a sightseeing trip to Cumberland with his friend, the rising star of literature Wilkie Collins. Writing together, they reported...
| 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 | Harriet Martineau |
| ISBN | 0141439394 |
When the Ibbotson sisters, Hester and Margaret, arrive at the village of Deerbrook to stay with their cousin Mr. Grey and his wife, speculation is rife that one of them might marry the local apothecary, Edward Hope. Although he is immediately attracted to Margaret, Hope is ultimately persuaded to marry...
| Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| ISBN | 1419137883 |
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Poison, Shadow, and Farewell
| Author | Javier Marías |
| ISBN | 0811218120 |
Poison, Shadow, and Farewell, with its heightened tensions between meditations and noir narrative, with its wit and and ever deeper forays into the mysteries of consciousness, brings to a stunning finale Marías’s three-part Your Face Tomorrow. Already this novel has been acclaimed “exquisite“...
| Author | Javier Marías |
| ISBN | 0811216128 |
Part spy novel, part romance, part Henry James, Your Face Tomorrow is a wholly remarkable display of the immense writing gifts of Javier Marias. With Fever and Spear, Volume One of his unfolding novel Your Face Tomorrow, he returns us to the rarified world of Oxford (the delightful setting of All Souls...
| Author | Indro Montanelli |
| ISBN | 8422662981 |
Los próceres y las personalidades de Roma no eran distintos del común de los mortales. César fue un mujeriego toda su vida y se avergonzaba de su calvicie, pero eso no desmerece su grandeza de militar y estadista. Augusto no dedicó todo su tiempo a organizar el Imperio, sino que parte del mismo lo ocupó...
| Author | Joseph Conrad |
| ISBN | 8415601921 |
Pocos autores pueden compararse con la desmesura de la invención, la variedad de registros, la profundidad de inmersión de su viaje hacia los lugares más oscuros y recónditos de la mente y la delicadeza descriptiva de Joseph Conrad. Se recoge aquí en lengua española por vez primera la totalidad...
| Author | Mary Elizabeth Braddon |
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