The Wife of Bath and Other Canterbury Tales

Author	J. Sheridan Le Fanu
ISBN	0809510839

Bloody relevant to read!


BEFORE DRACULA, THERE WAS...

But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.

This is a very important book in historic sense, in the genre of vampire reading, due that it was published 25 years before than Dracula....

Author

Jean Webster

When Jerusha Abbott, an eighteen-year-old girl living in an orphan asylum, was told that a mysterious millionaire had agreed to pay for her education, it was like a dream come true. For the first time in her life, she had someone she could pretend was "family." But everything was not perfect, for he chose...

Author	Bernardine Evaristo
ISBN	0241364906

Joint Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2019

Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood

Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories...

Author	Holly Smale
ISBN	0007489447

Harriet Manners knows a lot of things.

She knows that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear, a "jiffy" lasts 1/100th of a second, and the average person laughs 15 times per day. What she isn't quite so sure about is why nobody at school seems to like her very much. So when she's spotted by a top model agent,...

Author	Francis Bacon
ISBN	0140432167

Bacon, an Elizabethan legal and government counselor and a scholar, wrote these enduring essays at the tail end of the 16th century. So of what practical use could they possibly be now at the start of the 21st century? From his essay “On Unity” there is this observation, “But it is greater blasphemy...

Author	Patricia Highsmith
ISBN	0393323374

3.5 Stars
If Aesop was abused by a mean, alcoholic mother and then jilted and heartbroken by the true love of his life, I think he would have written this book of short tales rather than his famous fables. This is a collection of tiny stories written by famed psychological noir writer and alleged cynic,...

Author	Lynn Hall
ISBN	0684183439

This is an appropriate read even for preschoolers. Chris is the young protagonist who is extremely distraught at his father's line of work (which is to buy horses at auction and sell them to a buyer who slaughters them for meat---okay that might not be an easy topic to discuss with the youngest crowd, but...