Translated by John Ormsby. One of the earliest novels in a modern European language, one which many people consider the finest book in the Spanish language. Book Excerpt brown, spring out of the thicket with a goatherd after it, calling to it and uttering the usual cries to make it stop or turn back to […]
Emily Brontë’s only novel, this tale portrays Catherine and Heathcliff, their all-encompassing love for one another, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them both, leading Heathcliff to shun and abuse society. First published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, Wuthering Heights is considered to be a classic of English literature.
Book Excerpt t. I was homesick, and Aunt could never bear to hear of those things. It was before your marriage, and all the kinder, for you were the queen of the night, yet had a word for poor little me.”Mrs. Snowdon was pale to the lips, and Maurice impatiently tapped the arm of his […]
Bathsheba Everdene, living in the quiet rural village of Weatherbury, is indeed disrupted by the ‘madding crowd’. After shunning the first man to love her, the shepherd Gabriel Oak, she is courted by two others: the lonely and repressed farmer Boldwood, and the charming but faithless Sergeant Troy.
Anne grows up and proves the promise of her youth by being a lovable, sunny young woman with an infinite capacity for enjoying “Patty’s Place” at college and life in general, especially when it brings her own love story.
This story revolves around the Dashwood sisters: where Elinor is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister Marianne is wildly romantic–a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. (With an introduction by Austin Dobson.}
Book Excerpt ” he exclaimed, very sharply.I made a carefully calculated pause and then replied, choosing my words with deliberation: “It is the answer to your Excellency’s question as to my opinion of the solution. If you have followed my formula, you have of course found the jewels. The Count was the thief.” “In God’s […]
Widely regarded as the precursor of the modern mystery and suspense novels, The Moonstone tells of the events surrounding the disappearance of a mysterious (and cursed) yellow diamond. T. S. Eliot called it ‘the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels’. It contains a number of ideas which became common tropes […]
Book Excerpt el piqued at his neglect, and to strive in many ways to attract his attention.John, who was ambitious, met her advances more than half way, and finally, encouraged by her father, offered her his heart and hand. Under other circumstances, Matilda would undoubtedly have spurned him with contempt; but having heard that her […]