Vanessa rated Woman in White: 4 stars
Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing …
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Vanessa rated Far from the Madding Crowd: 3 stars
Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd (2017, Independently Published)
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest …
Vanessa rated The Innocent Libertine: 3 stars
Vanessa rated Howards end: 3 stars
Howards end by Edward Morgan Forster (Dover thrift editions)
Howards End is a novel by E. M. Forster about social conventions, codes of conduct and relationships in turn-of-the-century England. …
Vanessa rated Ripening seed: 4 stars
Ripening seed by Colette (Penguin twentieth century classics)
Vanessa rated Madame Bovary: 3 stars
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Charles Bovary, médecin de campagne, veuf d'une mégère, fait lors d'une tournée la rencontre du père Rouault et de sa …
Vanessa rated The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy: 3 stars
Vanessa rated The French Lieutenant's Woman: 5 stars
Vanessa rated A Passage to India: 5 stars
Vanessa rated The Moor's last sigh: 3 stars
The Moor's last sigh by Salman Rushdie
"The Moor evokes his family's often grotesque but compulsively moving fortunes and the lost world of possibilities embodied by India …
Vanessa rated Les fleurs du mal: 4 stars
Vanessa rated The Breadwinner: 3 stars
Vanessa rated Cosmicomics: 5 stars
Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino (Harbrace paperbound library ;)
Enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. "Naturally, …
Vanessa rated Le divorce: 1 star
Vanessa rated Madame Bovary: 4 stars
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Geoffrey Wall was noted as a contributor. Not sure what he did though.