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Three Complete Novels: Howards End, A Room with a View, Where Angels Fear to Tread
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Include books by the same authorA Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement
Anthony Powell · 274 pages
Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art. In the sec
USA: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money
John dos Passos · 1,312 pages
The House of Mirth / The Reef / The Custom of the Country / The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton · 1,328 pages
The four novels in this volume show Wharton at the height of her powers as a social observer and critic, examining American and European lives with a vision rich in detail, satire, and tragedy.
The Complete Works of Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Widely considered the greatest author of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, winning universal praise as a literary genius. Dickens' novels and beloved tales not only entertained the world, but helped to improve the lives of the lower classes and fight social injustices. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents
The Neapolitan Novels
Elena Ferrante
Contains: 1. [L'amica geniale](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16520879W) 2. [Storia del nuovo cognome](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16807901W) 3. [Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17081245W) 4. [Storia della bambina perduta](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17264238W)
Harper Lee Collection: To Kill a Mockingbird + Go Set a Watchman
Harper Lee · 624 pages
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy · 457 pages
An intimate portrait of a woman, one of literature's most admirable and tragic heroines...Tess Durbeyfield knows what it is to work hard and expect little. But her life is about to veer from the path trod by her mother and grandmother. When her ne'er-do-well father learns that his family is the last of a long noble line, the d'Urbervilles, he sends Tess on a journey to meet her supposed kin—a jour
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 182 pages
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to
Novels 1942-52: The Moon is Down/Cannery Row/The Pearl/East of Eden
John Steinbeck · 983 pages
John Steinbeck has earned a place as one of America's most enduringly popular writers. Here, in the third volume of The Library of America's authoritative edition of his writings, are four novels that give ample evidence of his remarkable range and unique accessibility. The Moon is Down, inspired by refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe and widely circulated among resistance fighters during the war,
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte · 474 pages
The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations and oppression; her time as the governess of Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester; her ti
The House of the Dead
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 308 pages
The House of the Dead (Russian: Записки из Мёртвого дома, Zapiski iz Myortvovo doma) is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1860–2 in the journal Vremya by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. The novel has also been published under the titles Memoirs from the House of The Dead, Notes from the Dead House (or Notes from a Dead House
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser · 831 pages
The classic depiction of the harsh realities of American life, the dark side of the American Dream, and one man's doomed pursuit of love and success..."Mr. Dreiser is not imitative and belongs to no school. He is at heart a mysticist and a fatalist, though using the realistic method. He is, on the evidence of this novel alone, a power." --The New York Times Book Review
Girl with a Pearl Earring/Falling Angels Duo
Tracy Chevalier
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot · 612 pages
As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition of the English upper-classes. And while Gwendolen loses everything and becomes trapped in an oppressive marriage, Deronda's fortunes take a different turn. After a dramatic encounter with the young Jewi
Anna Karenina, Vol 1 of 2
Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoj · 789 pages
Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as “flawless,” Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and thereby exposes herself to the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of ninetee
Bel-Ami
Guy de Maupassant · 303 pages
.I Quand la caissiere lui eut rendu la monnaie de sa piece de cent sous, Georges Duroy sortit du restaurant. Comme il portait beau, par nature et par pose d'ancien sous-officier, il cambra sa taille, frisa sa moustache d'un geste militaire et familier, et jeta sur les dineurs attardes un regard rapide et circulaire, un de ces regards de joli garcon qui s'etendent comme des coups d'epervier. Les fe
Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels
Nancy Mitford · 284 pages
The Good Earth Trilogy: The Good Earth, Sons, and A House Divided
Pearl S. Buck · 878 pages
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Evelyn Waugh · 370 pages
The Tin Flute
Gabrielle Roy · 393 pages
A family in the Saint-Henri slums of Montreal struggles to overcome poverty and ignorance while searching for love.
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · 332 pages
Charles Bovary, médecin de campagne, veuf d'une mégère, fait lors d'une tournée la rencontre du père Rouault et de sa fille, Emma. Après leur mariage, Emma reste insatisfaite et rêve d'une nouvelle vie. Son premier amant lui donne le goût du luxe et fait miroiter un avenir à deux avant de l'abandonner. Une fois remise, Emma continue à faire de folles dépenses, qui peu à peu la mènent à la ruine et
The Wings of the Dove
Henry James · 510 pages
Beautiful Kate Croy may have been left penniless by her relatives, but her bold, ambitious nature ensures she will not succumb meekly to a life of poverty. If the financial circumstances of Merton Densher, the man she is passionately in love with, are not sufficient to secure her future, perhaps her cunning will. So when Milly Theale arrives in Europe from America, laden with wealth but also grave