The Rise of Silas Lapham
10 best books like The Rise of Silas Lapham (William Dean Howells): McTeague, The Marrow of Tradition, The Awkward Age, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Tales of New York, The Rise of David Levinsky, The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction, Ethan Frome and Selected Stories, Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales, Silas Marner and Two Short Stories, Six Plays: Peer Gynt / A Doll's House / Ghosts / The Wild Duck / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder
| Author | Frank Norris |
| ISBN | 0451528913 |
"I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth," declared Frank Norris, shortly before his death at the age of thirty-two. Of his novels, none have shocked the reading...
| Author | Charles W. Chesnutt |
| ISBN | 0140186867 |
Things they didn't teach you in American History
I consider myself fortunate to have gone to segregated schools in the Jim Crow South of the 1950's,thanks to teachers who taught us many of the things that were missing from the approved text books. The text books in the Virginia schools would...
| Author | Henry James |
| ISBN | 0140432973 |
Making her debut in London society, Nanda Brookenham is being groomed for the marriage market. Thrust suddenly into the superficial circle that surrounds her mother, the innocent but independent-minded young woman even finds herself in competition with Mrs Brookenham for the affection of the man...
| Author | Stephen Crane |
| ISBN | 0140437975 |
"A powerful, severe, and harshly comic portrayal of Irish immigrant life in lower New York exactly a century ago."—Alfred Kazin.
Although fellow novelists William Dean Howells and Hamlin Garland immediately recognized genius in the twenty-one-year-old author of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets,...
| Author | Abraham Cahan |
| ISBN | 0140186875 |
I read this one a long time ago and was really drawn in by the pathos and the humor, and, of course, the journey. Cahan refuses to make this a simple story about good and evil. Levinsky falls as he rises, and rises as he falls, and perhaps there is something almost universally true about the human predicament...
| Author | Kate Chopin |
| ISBN | 1593080018 |
When it first appeared in 1899, Kate Chopin’s The Awakening was greeted with cries of outrage. The novel’s frank portrayal of a woman’s emotional, intellectual, and sexual awakening shocked the sensibilities of the time and destroyed the author’s reputation and career. Many years passed...
| Author | Edith Wharton |
| ISBN | 1593080905 |
One of Edith Wharton’s few works of fiction that takes place outside of an urban, upper-class setting, Ethan Frome draws upon the bleak, barren landscape of rural New England. A poor farmer, Ethan finds himself stuck in a miserable marriage to Zeenie, a sickly, tyrannical woman, until he falls in...
| Author | Herman Melville |
| ISBN | 1593082533 |
Largely neglected in his own lifetime, Herman Melville mastered not only the great American novel but also the short story and novella forms. In Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales, Melville reveals an uncanny awareness of the inscrutable nature of reality.
Published posthumously...
| Author | George Eliot |
| ISBN | 1593082517 |
George Eliot’s third novel, Silas Marner (1861) is a powerful and moving tale about one man’s journey from exile and loneliness to the warmth and joy of the family.
The story opens as Silas Marner, falsely accused of theft, loses everything, including his faith in God. Embittered and...
| Author | Henrik Ibsen |
| ISBN | 1593080611 |
The father of modern drama, Henrik Ibsen shook off the stale conventions of nineteenth-century theater and made the stage play an instrument for brilliantly illuminating the dark recesses of human nature.
After writing historical plays and imaginative epic dramas in verse, such as Peer Gynt,...
| Author | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
The short fiction of a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature. With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. The pieces collected...
| Author | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| ISBN | 1593081944 |
The House of the Dead and Poor Folk, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some...
| Author | Sarah Orne Jewett |
| ISBN | 0451527577 |
In 1896, at the age of forty-seven, Sarah Orne Jewett published this classic novel of a female writer looking for seclusion and inspiration in the coastal town of Dunnet Landing, Maine. Returning to the women and men of small New England towns for the accompanying collection of short fiction, this remarkable...
| Author | Harold Frederic |
| ISBN | 0140390251 |
A candid inquiry into the intertwining of religious and sexual fervor, and a telling portrait of the United States at the end of the nineteenth century, this novel foreshadows the rise of naturalism in American literature. The Damnation of Theron Ware (published in England as Illumination) is an 1896...
| Author | George Gissing |
| ISBN | 0192837672 |
The Nether World (1889), generally regarded as the finest of Gissing's early novels, is a highly dramatic, sometimes violent tale of man's caustic vision shaped by the bitter personal experience of poverty. This tale of intrigue depicts life among the artisans, factory-girls, and slum-dwellers,...
| Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| ISBN | 0140435603 |
Io non chiedo ricchezze, né speranze, né amore, né un amico che mi comprenda; tutto quello che chiedo è il cielo sopra di me e una strada ai miei piedi.
Ci ho messo una settimana a leggere poco più di 200 pagine. Tanto tempo: non volevo arrivare alla fine, o meglio, alla non-fine. Stevenson...
Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time
| Author | Fanny Fern |
| ISBN | 0140436405 |
In Ruth Hall, one of the bestselling novels of the 1850s, Fanny Fern drew heavily on her own experiences: the death of her first child and her beloved husband, a bitter estrangement from her family, and her struggle to make a living as a writer. Written as a series of short vignettes and snatches of overheard...
Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
| Author | Charles Brockden Brown |
| ISBN | 0140390626 |
One of the first American Gothic novels, Edgar Huntly (1787) mirrors the social and political temperaments of the postrevolutionary United States.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than...
