A tale of love, class, and murder during the era of the trade-union movement in nineteenth-century England, from the author of North and South. In Manchester, long-suffering John Barton and his daughter, Mary, both want a better future...
Classic fiction
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Author:Gaskell, ElizabethSummary: - Author:Gaskell, Elizabeth CleghornSummary:
Before Elizabeth Gaskell's famous North and South and Cranford, there was Mary Barton. Set in Manchester England in the mid-nineteenth century, Mary Barton was revolutionary in the way it tackled the relationship between poor mill...
- Author:Kafka, FranzSummary:
Benedict Cumberbatch reads Franz Kafka's famous story of man-turned-insect, Metamorphosis. After a night of troubled dreams, Gregor Samsa wakes to discover that he has turned into a huge, monstrous, cockroach-like creature, with an...
- Author:Eliot, GeorgeSummary:
Through Dorothea and other townsfolk, Eliot shows how various human passions interrelate with Victorian society.
- Author:Eliot, GeorgeSummary:
Sisters Dorothea and Cecilia live in genteel poverty in an English village. Dorothea, seeking a life of noble service, falls for the dry intellectual Edward Casaubon, much to her light-hearted sister’s dismay. Eight hundred pages of...
- Author:Melville, HermanSummary:
One of the funniest and strangest narrators in literature goes to sea with a maniacal captain on a doomed whaling voyage. Ishmael’s rollicking digressions on everything from whaling to philosophy may have put you off in high school, but...
- Author:Defoe, DanielSummary:
Moll is born in Newgate prison to a petty thief and is soon left at the mercy of whoever will take her in. From this unfavorable beginning, the lusty, resourceful Moll loves and bargains her way from rags to riches, from prostitution in...
- Author:Woolf, VirginiaSummary:
A stylistically innovative volume of short stories from the groundbreaking author of Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando. First presented as one volume in 1921, Monday or Tuesday was the only collection of stories Virginia...
- Author:Woolf, VirginiaSummary:
In this vivid portrait of a single day in a woman’s life, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of preparation for a party while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she...
- Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:
THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY OF ALL TIME - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH AND PRODUCED BY RIDLEY SCOTT! "The murderer is with us-on the train now . . ." Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is...
- Author:Asimov, IsaacSummary:
A collection of twenty classic short stories by Isaac Asimov, author of the Foundation series, featuring the definitive and only in-print version of "Nightfall" From one of history's most influential writers of science...
- Author:Hugo, VictorSummary:
Hugo's last novel about 1793, the year of the guillotine in France, captures the moment that shaped the destiny not only of France but of all European monarchy.
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Full of dreams, strange prophecies, sexual slander, violent power struggles and fragile peace settlements, Njal's Saga is a compelling chronicle of a fifty-year blood feud. Written in the late thirteenth century, it is the most powerful...
- Author:Gaskell, ElizabethSummary:
As brilliant for its compassion as its art, Gaskell’s socially conscious masterpiece shows the early effects of the Industrial Revolution on both workers and employers through the intelligent eyes of Margaret Hale, whose advocacy for...
- Author:Conrad, JosephSummary:
Around the figure of Nostromo, Conrad spins a story about revolution, politics, and racial conflicts as complex as Nostromo, the man whose greatest enemy is himself. Heading the Gould Concession, the imperialistic silver mine, which...
- Author:Barker, ElspethSummary:
In the tradition of Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern classic of Scottish literature about a doomed adolescent growing up in the mid-19th century--featuring a new introduction by Maggie...
- Author:Cather, WillaSummary:
Alexandra Bergsons, the daughter of Swedish immigrants, inherits her family's ailing farm in Hanover, Nebraska upon the death of her father. Over the years, she turns the farm into a successful enterprise. However, success has not...
- Author:Maugham, W. SomersetSummary:
The author of The Razor's Edge explores the longing for love and freedom in this coming-of-age story-"a novel of the utmost importance" (Theodore Dreiser). Born with a clubfoot and orphaned at an early age, Philip Carey has long felt...
- Author:Steinbeck, JohnSummary:
Celebrating its 75th anniversary, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men remains one of America's most widely read and beloved novels. Here is Steinbeck's dramatic adaptation of his novel-as-play, which received the New York Drama Critics'...
- Author:Sinclair, UptonSummary:
Enraged by the oil scandals of the Harding administration in the 1920s, Sinclair tells a gripping tale of avarice, corruption, and class warfare, featuring a cavalcade of characters, including senators, oil magnates, Hollywood film...
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