The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Grey
10 best books like The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Grey (Anne Brontë): The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce and Selected Stories, The Waste Land and Other Writings, Naguib Mahfouz: Three Novels of Ancient Egypt, Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad, Sanditon and Other Stories, Shirley & The Professor, Ethan Frome, Summer, Bunner Sisters, Poems, All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten, Revolutionary Road / The Easter Parade / Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
These three classics from the master of the noir novel, along with five otherwise unavailable short stories, are electric with the taut narrative voice, the suspense, and the explosive violence and eroticism that were James M. Cain’s indelible hallmarks.The Postman Always Rings Twice, Cain’s...
| Author | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0375759344 |
Also includes Prufrock and Other Observations, Poems (1920), and The Sacred Wood
Introduction by Mary Karr
First published in 1922, “The Waste Land,” T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece, is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the...
| Author | Naguib Mahfouz |
| ISBN | 1841593052 |
Mahfouz reaches back thousands of years to bring us tales from his homeland's majestic early history—tales of the Egyptian nobility and of war, star-crossed love, and the divine rule of the pharoahs. In Khufu's Wisdom, the legendary Fourth Dynasty monarch faces the prospect of the end of his rule...
| Author | Alice Oswald |
| ISBN | 0571274161 |
The poetry of Alice Oswald is preternatural…preternaturally gorgeous, preternaturally immediate and relevant and precise. We want to sink into that language and be in that bright place—perhaps not to live (among the flashing swords), but to die there, amongst one’s brethren, with poetry...
| Author | Jane Austen |
| ISBN | 0679447199 |
Readers of Jane Austen’s six great novels are left hungering for more, and more there is: the marvelous unpublished manuscripts she left behind, collected here.
Sanditon might have been Austen’s greatest novel had she lived to finish it. Its subject matter astonishes: here is Austen...
| Author | Charlotte Brontë |
| ISBN | 0307268217 |
Shirley is the story of a complicated friendship between two very different women: shy and socially constrained Caroline, the poor niece of a tyrannical clergyman; and the independent heiress Shirley, who has both the resources and the spirit to defy convention. The romantic entanglements of the...
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) These three brilliantly wrought, tragic novellas explore the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-class people far removed from the social milieu usually inhabited by Edith Wharton's characters. Ethan Frome is one of Wharton's most famous...
| Author | John Keats |
| ISBN | 0460878085 |
Un desiderio soddisfatto nel giro di poche ore. l'unica copia rimasta. "La Temeraire" di Turner in copertina...
Una bella cosa è una gioia per sempre:
La sua bellezza aumenta e mai
Sparirà nel nulla.
Non ho mai provato sensazioni così intense fino ad ora. Ogni volta che...
| Author | Christopher Logue |
| ISBN | 0374529299 |
Setting down her topaz saucer heaped with nectarine jelly,
Emptying her blood-red mouth—set in her ice-white face—
Teenaged Athena jumped up and shrieked:
"Kill! Kill for me!
Better to die than live without killing!"
Who says prayer does no good?
Christopher...
Revolutionary Road / The Easter Parade / Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
| Author | Richard Yates |
| ISBN | 0307270890 |
Three classic works--including the virtuosic "Revolutionary Road, "soon to be a major motion picture--that exemplify the remarkable gifts of this great American master.
Richard Yates's first novel, "Revolutionary Road "is the unforgettable portrait of a marriage built on dreams that...
| Author | Raymond Chandler |
| ISBN | 0375415025 |
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Creator of the famous Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler elevated the American hard-boiled detective genre to an art form. Chandler’s last four novels, published here in one volume, offer ample opportunity to savor the unique and utterly compelling fictional...
| Author | Irène Némirovsky |
| ISBN | 0307267083 |
Readers everywhere were introduced to the work of Irène Némirovsky through the publication of her long-lost masterpiece, Suite Française. But Suite Française was only the coda to the brief yet remarkably prolific career of this nearly forgotten, magnificent novelist. Here in one volume are...
The Raj Quartet (1): The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion
| Author | Paul Scott |
| ISBN | 0307263967 |
The Raj Quartet, Paul Scott's epic study of British India in its final years, has no equal. Tolstoyan in scope and Proustian in detail but completely individual in effect, it records the encounter between East and West through the experiences of a dozen people caught up in the upheavals...
This is the definitive Kindle Edition of the great writer's works, with every published novel, short story, novella and poem written by George Eliot, with beautiful illustrations and bonus texts.
Including:
* ALL 7 novels, with contents tables
* annotated with concise introductions...
Features:
* illustrated with countless images relating to Hardy and his works
* annotated with concise introductions to the novels and other texts
* each novel has its own contents table - easily navigate between chapters!
* many of the novels are fully illustrated with original...
| Author | Patrick O'Brian |
| ISBN | 0393313166 |
Delmore Schwartz, the most influential critic in postwar America, wrote of Patrick O'Brian's first novel Testimonies: "A triumph...drawn forward by lyric eloquence and the story's fascination, [the reader] discovers in the end that he has encountered in a new way the sphinx and the riddle of existence...
| Author | Unknown |
| ISBN | 0393976580 |
Nearly done teaching it. Borroff's translation is, I guess, tied for the best available, but--and I hate to be a snob about it--there's really no substitute for the original. I doubt Borroff would disagree with me.
which isn't to say that the translation can't be improved* in places: for example,...
| Author | Katharine Susannah Prichard |
| ISBN | 0207132178 |
Coonardoo is the moving story of a young Aboriginal woman trained form childhood to be the housekeeper at Wytaliba station and, as such, destined to look after its owner, Hugh Watt. The love between Coonardoo and Hugh, which so shocked its readers when the book was first published in 1929, is never acknowledged...
Complete Works of Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope is a leading literary figure of the Victorian age, having not only written novels, but also varied works such as sketches, plays, biographies and classical studies. This enormous eBook offers readers the unique opportunity of exploring the prolific writer’s complete works in...
The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson
| Author | Alfred Tennyson |
| ISBN | 1430456620 |
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages,...
| Author | Maria Tatar |
| ISBN | 0811850463 |
Murder, kidnapping, cruel and unusual punishment, violent revengethese are not the bedtime stories mummy used to read. Newly reissued with a fresh cover, Grimm's Grimmest presents nineteen original, unsanitized, wholly unholy tales as they were first collected by the Brothers Grimm circa 1822all...
