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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 Adventures of Tom Sawyer: 3 stars
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Mark Twain created the memorable characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn drawing from the experiences of boys he grew up …
Thomas Hardy: Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Classics Illustrated ) (2021, Independently Published)
Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Classics Illustrated ) by Thomas Hardy
An intimate portrait of a woman, one of literature's most admirable and tragic heroines...Tess Durbeyfield knows what it is to …
Vanessa rated "Remains of the Day", Kazuo Ishiguro: 4 stars
Vanessa rated The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: 4 stars
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
NARNIA... the world of wicked dragons and magic spells, where the very best is brought out of even the worst …
Vanessa rated Midnight's Children: 4 stars
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel by author Salman Rushdie. It portrays India's transition from British colonial rule to independence …
Vanessa rated Jude the Obscure: 4 stars
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Hardy's last work of fiction, Jude the Obscure is also one of his most gloomily fatalistic, depicting the lives of …
Vanessa rated Breakfast at Tiffany's: 4 stars
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Published with three short stories this novella cemented Capote’s position at the forefront of American literature. It is the story …
Emma by ICON Reference, Jane Austen
Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first …