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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.Dead souls (Forsyte chronicles)
By Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, Robert A Maguire. 2004
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town, visiting a succession of landowners and making each a strange offer.…
He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these souls as collateral to re-invent himself as a gentleman. 2004.Babbitt (Recorded Books contemporary classics)
By Sinclair Lewis. 1998
Satire of American middle-class city life. George F. Babbitt is a successful real estate man, a regular fellow, booster, Rotarian,…
Elk, and a Republican who moulds his opinions on those of the local newspaper and believes in a sound business administration in Washington. 1998.Daisy Miller (Forsyte chronicles)
By Henry James, Geoffrey Moore. 1986
"What the European male fails to understand is that the American girl is innocent by definition, mythically innocent", and, the…
confusion of Winterbourne is aggravated by the atmosphere in Vevey, a no-man's land half-way between the grimness of Geneva and the moral laxity of Rome. Winterbourne mistakes Daisy's frank manner for commonness, yet he is also aware of her delicate grace. 1986.Cousin Rosamund (Aubrey family. #3.)
By Rebecca West. 1985
Cranford (Oxford English Novels Ser.)
By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. 1853
Bonheur d'occasion (Québec 10/10. 6)
By Gabrielle Roy. 1983
Publié en 1945. Un grand classique de la littérature québécoise. Rappelons que "Bonheur d'occasion" raconte l'histoire d'un quartier pauvre de…
Montréal, Saint-Henri, et que les principaux personnages en sont une jeune serveuse de restaurant, un ouvrier de fonderie et un conscrit. c1945, 1983.Centenary at Jalna (Whiteoaks of Jalna saga ; #16)
By Mazo De la Roche. 1958
Traces the activities of the Whiteoak family in the mid-fifties, a period climaxed by the 100th anniversary celebration of the…
oldest of the family residences. Sequel to "Variable winds at Jalna". 1973, c1958. (Whiteoaks of Jalna saga ; 16)Bonjour tristesse (Great loves)
By Françoise Sagan, Irene Ash. 2007
Cecile leads a hedonistic, frivolous life with her father and his young mistresses. On holiday in the South of France,…
she is seduced by the sun, the sand and her first lover. But when her father decides to remarry, their carefree existence becomes clouded by tragedy. Originally published in 1954. 2007.