The great era of the novel.
Written with elegance and wry precision, Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece is a tragic love story which uncovers the painful conflict between personal desire and tribal rule in 1870s New York.
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Lambert Strether is the unlikely ambassador sent to Europe by wealthy American widow Mrs Newsome to rescue her long-delayed son Chad from an unsuitable love affair.
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Austen’s deepest, most tenderly explored love story, Persuasion was also her last. Alongside Austen’s sharp-eyed depiction of Anne, Captain Wentworth and the elegant streets of Bath there is an elegiac tone to Persuasion that makes it many readers’ favourite.
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When a 'piercing, heartrending' scream rings out across the grounds of a Russian country estate, it brings to a shuddering halt not just a convivial shooting party but an entire summer of debauchery.
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The 13 stories collected here are as varied as the characters that inhabit them, but all share a liveliness and strangeness that is unmistakably Gogolian. Illustrator Peter Suart brilliantly captures their characteristic blend of pathos and dark humour.
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In the mining town of Sulaco, no-one is safe from the corrupting effect of silver – certainly not Senor Gould who hopes to bring stability by meddling in politics, and not even the 'incorruptible' patriot Nostromo in search of heroism.
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Bleak and darkly comic, the spies, terrorists, anarchists and agents provocateurs who inhabit the seedy underworld of the early 20th-century London makes a disturbing milieu in which Verloc's ultimate undoing becomes inevitable.
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Isolated on his island and wrecked in business, Axel Heyst hardly seems to care that he has inspired the enmity of the hotel-owner on the neighbouring island, until he meets Lena and is inspired to attempt her rescue.
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Populated by some of Dickens’ most memorable characters, Bleak House (1852-3) is a devastating satire on the evils of the English legal system and the state of Victorian society.
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Dickens’ famously autobiographical account of a rootless orphan who overcomes poverty to become a famous novelist. It has been described by Nigella Lawson as ‘the fullest, breathtakingly truthful story of a life’.
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The shipping merchant Paul Dombey rejoices over the birth of an heir for the family business. But the son proves too fragile a vessel to fulfil the dreams of a cold and calculating father.
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In one of Dickens's best-loved and most enduring novels, written in 1860-1 at the height of his powers, the hero finds that 'great expectations' are not enough when it comes to the real business of living.
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Written for 'these times' - the England of 1854 - but became one of Dickens's most powerful and enduring works. In his portrait of Mr Gradgrind, the despotic headmaster, Dickens created a satire on Victorian utilitarian values that is as moving as it is comic.
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Around the central story of Nicholas Nickleby and the misfortunes of his family, Dickens created some of his most memorable characters: the muddle-headed Mrs Nickleby, the theatrical Crummles, their protege Miss Petowker, and the mindlessly cruel Squeers and his wife.
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The discovery of a body in the Thames brings together as disparate, vivid and memorable a collection of characters as Dickens ever created – Boffin, Gaffer Hexam, Mortimer Lightwood, Silas Wegg, Rogue Riderhood, Mr Podsnap, the Veneerings – their fates tied to the fast-flowing, fetid river.
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| 1 x Music for King Henry | |
| 1 x Impossible Journeys | |
| 1 x Napoleon | |
| 1 x The Apocrypha | |
| 1 x The Book of Exploration | |
| 1 x The Blind Watchmaker | |
| 1 x The Celts | |
| 1 x Robinson Crusoe | |
| 1 x Down the Garden Path | |
| 1 x The Eagle of the Ninth | |
| » plus 15 more books | |
| Total | US$3,343.95 |
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