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1) All passion spent

Author

Sackville-West, V. (Victoria), 1892-1962

Earliest Publication Date

1931

Summary

"Irreverently funny and surprisingly moving, All Passion Spent is the story of a woman who discovers who she is just before it is too late. After the death of elder statesman Lord Slane--a former prime minister of Great Britain and viceroy of India--everyone assumes that his eighty-eight-year-old widow will slowly fade away in her grief, remaining as proper, decorative, and dutiful as she has been her entire married life. But the deceptively gentle...

Author

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947

Earliest Publication Date

1923

Summary

"Written from the perspective of a male narrator, Willa Cather's classic novel is an American version of "Madame Bovary". It is a portrait of a talented woman trapped in the conventions and economic restraints of a marriage. It is the story of a woman who defies expectations, and whose personal changes coincide with the transforming American Frontier. In this work, Willa Cather expressed her profoundly modern feminist views in the life of an ordinary...

3) Anna Karenina

Author

Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910

Earliest Publication Date

1939

Summary

"Tolstoy produced many drafts of Anna Karenina. Crafting and recrafting each sentence with careful intent, he was anything but casual in his use of language. His project, translator Marian Schwartz observes, "was to bend language to his will, as an instrument of his aesthetic and moral convictions." In her magnificent new translation, Schwartz embraces Tolstoy's unusual style - she is the first English language translator ever to do so. Previous translations...

4) Birdman of Alcatraz

Earliest Publication Date

1992

Summary

The true story of a convicted killer who avoids the depths of despair by becoming a world-renowned authority on birds during his imprisonment.

5) Collected stories

Author

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947

Earliest Publication Date

1992

Summary

These stories tell of the ways in which the American frontier transformed the strangers who came to this country into Americans.

6) Crime and punishment: a novel in six parts with epilogue

Author

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

Earliest Publication Date

1992

Summary

This translation has been made from the Russian text of the Soviet Academy of Sciences edition, volumes six and seven (Leningrad, 1973). Quotations from Dostoevsky's letters and notebooks in the foreword are from Konstantin Mochulsky, Dostoevlky: His life and Work, translated by Michael A. Minihan (Princeton, N.J.:Princeton University Press, 1997).

7) David Copperfield

Author

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

Earliest Publication Date

1907

Summary

David Copperfield enjoys an idyllic life with his gentle, widowed mother and his loving nurse, Peggotty. Then tragedy strikes when Mr. Murdstone weds David's mother and drives her to an early grave. Despised by his stepfather, the boy is forced to live in misery and poverty until he runs away to throw himself upon the mercy of his eccentric aunt. Charles Dickens's classic tale of growing up.

Author

Gogol, Nikolaĭ Vasilevich, 1809-1852

Earliest Publication Date

1997

Summary

Chichikov, an amusing and often confused schemer, buys deceased serfs' names from landholders' poll tax lists hoping to mortgage them for profit.

9) Death comes for the archbishop

Author

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947

Earliest Publication Date

1927

Summary

In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows--gently, although he must contend with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Out of these events...

10) Demons: a novel in three parts

Author

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

Earliest Publication Date

1995

Summary

Mirrors the turmoil of nineteenth-century Russia, denouncing both nihlists and revolutionairies. Based on a true event, in which a young revolutionary was murdered by his comrades, The Possessed provoked a storm of controversy for its harsh depiction of a ruthless band of Russian intellectuals, atheists, socialists, anarchists, and other radicals who attempt to incite the population of a small provincial town to revolt against the government. In...

Author

Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912

Earliest Publication Date

1897

Summary

First published in 1897, Dracula by Bram Stoker has become the standard against which all other vampire stories are compare and the inspiration for countless film and stage adaptations. Indeed, the name "Dracula" has been synonymous with the Undead for at least a century, and the original novels till has the power to chill. Come then to Castle Dracula, hidden in the forbidding peaks of the Carpathian Mountains, where an undying creature of evil casts...

12) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: and other stories

Author

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894

Earliest Publication Date

2007

13) Far from the madding crowd

Author

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928

Earliest Publication Date

1895

Summary

'I hate to be thought men's property in that way'. Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her confident presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, the soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and when tragedy ensues,...

14) Great expectations

Author

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

Earliest Publication Date

1939

Summary

Great Expectations is among the most masterful of Charles Dickens's novels. Displaying extraordinary tragicomic range, Dickens blends an atmosphere of brooding violence and guilt with sharp and often disturbing humor to create a drama charged with the thrilling intensity of a detective story and the poignancy of a spiritual autobiography. Much of the novel's power comes from Dickens's unequaled skill at making even the most wildly eccentric of characters...

15) Great tales and poems

Author

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849

Earliest Publication Date

2009

Summary

Collects eleven short stories and eight poems by nineteenth-century American author Edgar Allan Poe, featuring "The Tell-Tale Heart, " "The Murders in the Rue Morgue, " "The Raven, " "Annabel Lee, " and others; and includes his essay entitled "The Philosophy of Composition."

16) Gulliver's travels: and verses on Gulliver's Travels by Alexander Pope

Author

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745

Earliest Publication Date

2007

17) Hawthorne's short stories

Author

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864

Earliest Publication Date

2011

Summary

Twenty four of the best of Hawthorne's short stories.

18) Lucy Gayheart

Author

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947

Earliest Publication Date

1935

19) My mortal enemy

Author

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947

Earliest Publication Date

1926

Summary

"First published in 1926, this book is Willa Cather's sparest and most dramatic novel, a dark and prescient portrait of a marriage that subverts our oldest notions about the nature of domestic happiness. As a young woman, Myra Henshawe gave up a fortune to marry for love--a boldly romantic gesture that became a legend in her family. But this worldly, sarcastic, and perhaps even wicked woman may have been made for something greater than love. In her...

20) Notes from underground

Author

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

Earliest Publication Date

1969

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