Newland Archer, a young lawyer in upper-crust 1870's New York, becomes a victim of social expectations and restrictions when he becomes infatuated with his docile fiancee's nonconformist cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska.
"First published in 1880, Moths addresses such Victorian taboos as adultery, domestic violence, and divorce in vivid and flamboyant prose. The beautiful young heroine, Vere Herbert, suffers at the hands of both her tyrannical mother and her dissipated husband, and is finally uni…
"In the mid-eighteenth century, Sarah Fielding (1710-68) was the second most popular English woman novelist, rivalled only by Eliza Haywood. The History of Ophelia, the last of her seven novels, is an often comic epistolary fiction, narrated by the heroine to an unnamed female c…
A satirical British novel on Tim Bright, a yuppie embroiled in shady financial deals. He lands in bed with the wife of a corrupt police chief who takes revenge, the whole thing ending in a shootout. A look at the legacy of Margaret Thatcher.
On the eve of World War I, three Italian immigrants--Julietta, Annamaria, and Luciana--dream of love, but each harbors a secret from their families and from each other that could destroy their hopes of finding happiness.
On the eve of World War I, three Italian immigrants--Julietta, Annamaria, and Luciana--dream of love, but each harbors a secret from their families and from each other that could destroy their hopes of finding happiness.
On the eve of World War I, three Italian immigrants--Julietta, Annamaria, and Luciana--dream of love, but each harbors a secret from their families and from each other that could destroy their hopes of finding happiness.
Novel based on an upper class young man, who becomes religious and gets involved in social works.