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By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell.
By Kate Pullinger. 2009
The American debut of an award-winning novel about a lady's maid's awakening as she journeys from the confines of Victorian…
England to the uncharted far reaches of Egypt's Nile Valley When Lady Duff Gordon, paragon of London society, departs for the hot, dry climate of Egypt to seek relief from her debilitating tuberculosis, her lady's maid, Sally, doesn't hesitate to leave the only world she has known in order to remain at her mistress's side. As Sally gets farther and farther from home, she experiences freedoms she has never known--forgoing corsets and wearing native dress, learning Arabic, and having her first taste of romance. But freedom is a luxury that a lady's maid can ill afford, and when Sally's newfound passion for life causes her to forget what she is entitled to, she is brutally reminded she is mistress of nothing. Ultimately she must choose her master and a way back home--or a way to an unknown future. Based on the real lives of Lady Duff Gordon and her maid, The Mistress of Nothing is a lush, erotic, and compelling story about the power of race, class, and loveBy Joshua Trotter. 2011
Like the promise of its title, All This Could Be Yours is full of elusive gifts. Joshua Trotter's debut collection…
is a metaphysical hall of windows that seem to be mirrors and mirrors presenting themselves as windows.By Honore De Balzac, Ellen Marriage.
By Russell Smith. 2008
In the tradition of erotic confession (with a catch), Smith's pornographic novel explores female desire. The unnamed narrator - gorgeous,…
sophisticated, bored, underemployed - embarks on a series of intense urban encounters in an unnamed city. Her desire is limitless: passionate, playful, intense, humorous. Diana is a literary experiment to arouse and to paint a sexual portrait of a city.By Charles Dickens.
By O. Henry.
By Charles Dickens.
By Honore De Balzac, Katharine Prescott Wormeley.
By Honore De Balzac, Katharine Prescott Wormeley.
By Oliver Goldsmith.
By Frances Hodgson Burnett.
By Honore De Balzac, Ellen Marriage.
By E. L. Voynich.
By Booth Tarkington.
By Frances Hodgson Burnett.
By George Gissing.
By Sir Walter Scott.
By Booth Tarkington. 2014
The basis for George Stevens’s major motion picture starring Katharine Hepburn in her Oscar-nominated leading role. In a small Midwestern…
town in the wake of World War I, Alice Adams delightedly finds herself being pursued by Arthur Russell, a gentleman of a higher social class in life. Desperate to keep her family's lower-middle-class status a secret, she and her parents concoct various schemes to keep their family afloat. Though the realities of her situation eventually reveal themselves and her relationship with Arthur fizzles, Alice's acceptance of this leads her to seek out work to support her family with an admirable resiliency. An enchanting and authentic tale of a family's aspirations to seek more out of life, Alice Adams reveals the strength of the human spirit and its incredible ability to evolve. Originally published in 1921, this bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was adapted into film twice, and its heroine, the sparkling Alice Adams, still resonates with readers today. With a new foreword by Anne Edwards.By Honore De Balzac.