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Frankenstein
By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. 1997
In this dramatic setting of Mary Shelley's original story, first broadcast as Classic Serial on BBC Radio 4, the listener…
will be able to enjoy the full terror of this surprisingly prophetic Gothic horror story. 1997, c1818.La bete humaine (Penguin Classics)
By Émile Zola, Leonard William Tancock. 1977
Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? On one…
level a tale of murder, passion and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. 1977.Kilmeny of the orchard
By L. M Montgomery. 1987
Handsome Eric Marshall arrives in Lindsay, Prince Edward Island to work as a substitute teacher before entering his family's business.…
He loses his heart to the mysterious and beautiful Kilmeny Gordon, but he must fight to win her love. Grades 5-8.Joseph Andrews
By Henry Fielding, Robert Francis Brissenden. 2003
Joseph Andrews, first published in 1742, is in part a parody of Samuel Richardson's Pamela. But whereas Richardson's novel is…
marked by the virtues of female chastity and the triumph of steadfast morality, Fielding's Joseph Andrews is peopled with lascivious women, thieves, hypocrites, and general fools. As we follow the characters in their travels, what unfolds is a lively panoramic satire of mid-Georgian England. 1977.Jane of Lantern Hill
By L. M Montgomery. 1937
Jane always has believed her father to be dead, but she accidentally learns that he is alive and living on…
Prince Edward Island. The summer that she spends with him at his cottage on Lantern Hill exposes Jane to a totally different way of life. Grades 5-8.Jacques the fatalist: and his master (Penguin Classics)
By Denis Diderot, Michael Henry. 1986
The world of Jacques is one of dizzying variety and unpredictability. A proliferation of anecdotes, characters and philosophical problems spring…
up around the apparently central theme of the relationship between Jacques and his master. c1986.Inherent vice
By Thomas Pynchon. 2009
As the marijuana haze of the free love 1960s begins to fade, Doc Sportello drifts in and out of awareness.…
He hasn't seen his girlfriend in a long time. Then one day she shows up and rattles off a fantastic story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer--and Doc can't help but get drawn in. 2009.Hans Brinker or The silver skates (Recorded Books classics library)
By Mary Mapes Dodge. 1996
From the earth to the moon (Crest book ; #S216)
By Jules Verne. 1995
It is the year 1865. Following the end of the American Civil War, the members of Baltimore Gun Club are…
restless, seeking new ways of using their genius for invention and discovery. So their president, Impey Barbicane, sets his fellows a challenge: to construct a rocket which can reach the moon. 1995, c1865. Uniform title: De la terre à la lune.Heart of darkness
By Joseph Conrad. 1993
Marlow relates his journey into the centre of the Congo to find Kurtz. He finds that the farther he penetrates,…
the more compelling becomes his confrontation with the potential for inhumanity. 1993.Cousin Bette (Classics library)
By Honoré De Balzac, David Bellos, Sylvia Raphael. 2013
Lisbeth Fischer, or Cousin Bette, feels she's been wronged - though much of what she perceives may only reside in…
her imagination. Seeking vengeance against the family of her beautiful cousin, Adeline, she leverages the uncontrollable sexual appetites of her cousin's husband as the linchpin of her plans. 2013, c1846. Uniform title: Cousine Bette.Felix Holt, the radical (The World's classics)
By George Eliot, Fred C Thomson. 1980
Felix Holt is pitted against the self-satisfied local landowner Harold Transome, both politically and in his pursuit of Esther Lyon.…
Eliot's novel is set against the political ferment and corrupt electioneering in a small Midland borough at the time of the Reform Bill of 1832. 1980.Farmer boy (Little house books. #2.)
By Laura Ingalls Wilder. 2003
Story about a traditional farm family in upper New York State in the 1860s tells about work, school, and simple…
amusements and introduces nine-year-old Almanzo Wilder, who later married Laura Ingalls. Grades 4-7 and older readers. Originally published in 1933, c2003.Eugene Onegin: a novel in verse (Penguin classics)
By Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Stanley Mitchell. 2008
Set in 1820s Russia. Tired of the glitter and glamour of St Petersburg society, aristocratic dandy Eugene Onegin retreats to…
the country estate he has recently inherited. With the arrival of the idealistic young poet Vladimir Lensky he begins an unlikely friendship, as the poet welcomes his urbane addition to his small social circle - and is happy to introduce Onegin to his fiancee, Olga, and her family. But when Olga's sister Tatiana becomes infatuated with Onegin, his cold rejection of her love brings about a tragedy that engulfs them all. Originally published: 1833. 2008.Ethan Frome (Penguin Twentieth-century Classics Ser.)
By Edith Wharton, Doris Grumbach. 1993
A grim tale of retribution told so that it seems a transcription of real life. The three characters are a…
discouraged New England farmer, his hypochondriac wife, and a girl who still finds some joy in living. 1993, 1911.Diary of a pilgrimage (Jerome K. Jerome Ser.)
By Jerome K Jerome. 1891
Invited to the theatre on Monday next, Jerome discovers it is at Ober-Ammergau. He looked at his diary and saw…
that Aunt Emma was coming, calculated that he would miss her and decided that he would go! And so began an epic pilgrimage. 1891.Death in Venice, and seven other stories (Vintage International)
By Thomas Mann, H. T Lowe-Porter. 1963
A selection of writings by the twentieth-century German author who develops the themes of the influence of the past on…
the present, the meaning of death, the alienation of the artist, and the inner struggle of intellectualism versus sensualism. 1963. Uniform title: Selections.Dombey and Son (Penguin English library)
By Charles Dickens, Peter Fairclough. 1848
This novel was published in 20 monthly installments during 1846-48 and in book form in 1848. It was a crucial…
novel in Dickens development, a product of more thorough planning and maturer thought than his earlier serialized books. The title character, Mr. Dombey, is a wealthy shipping merchant whose wife dies giving birth to their second child, a long-hoped-for son and heir, Paul. 1970.Doctor Thorne (Barsetshire novels. #3.)
By Anthony Trollope, David Skilton. 1994
Doctor Thorne is confronted with a delicate problem when his niece, the penniless Mary Thorne, considers marriage to Frank Gresham,…
heir to a great but impoverished estate. Shall Doctor Thorne disclose that Mary may herself become heiress to a huge fortune? Third in the Chronicles of Barsetshire. 1994.Desperate remedies: a novel
By Thomas Hardy. 1975
Cytherea Gray, lady's maid, decides to marry the villainous Aeneas Manston after she discovers her true love, Edward Springrove, is…
already engaged. As soon as she is married she discovers that Aeneas's first wife is still alive. Her investigations into the situation have tragic consequences. 1975.