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Don Quixote
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel De Cervantes, Judge Parry
Hardcover (Gardners Books, Nov. 30, 1998)Don Quixote
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Awakening
Kate Chopin
Hardcover (Everyman's Library, Nov. 15, 1992)The heroine of this story, Edna Pontellier, goes through the stages of a compelling but ultimately tragic search for personal freedom. On publication in 1899, this book provided a frank treatment on adultery which aroused a storm of controversy.
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Wizard of Oz
Frank Baum, W.W. Denslow
Hardcover (Gardners Books, Sept. 30, 1992)The story of the orphan Dorothy, carried away by a cyclone from her aunt and uncle's Kansas farm to the land of Oz, was an immediate success when published in 1900. Denslow's original illustrations, used in this edition, heavily influenced subsequent illustrators, film-makers and stage-designers.
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Villette
Charlotte Bronte
Hardcover (Everyman's Library, March 19, 1992)Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and heroine of Villette, achieves by degrees an authentic independence from both outer necessity and inward grief.
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The Happy Prince
Oscar Wilde
Hardcover (Everyman's Library, Jan. 1, 1995)Excellent Book
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Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Hardcover (Gardners Books, Feb. 29, 1992)Jane Austen seems to have been born with the comic precision and other-worldly insight she everywhere displays in Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel (1811), which, though revised later, was completed in 1797 at the age of twenty-two. This meticulously constructed story of two sisters with opposing temperaments and romantic inclinations exemplifies the distilled spirit of classicism in English literature.
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Women in Love
D H Lawrence
Hardcover (Everyman, June 4, 1992)This novel, considered by Lawrence to be his best, centres on the characters of Birkin (a self portrait), Gerald, the son of a colliery owner, and the two women, Gudrun and Ursula. The text has been cleared of accumulated errors and omissions due to censorship.
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King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
Roger Lancelyn Green, Aubrey Beardsley
Hardcover (Gardners Books, Sept. 30, 1993)King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (Everyman's Library Children's Classics)
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Martin Chuzzlewit
Charles Dickens
Hardcover (Gardners Books, Sept. 30, 1994)The distinctive combination of manic comedy, bitter satire and fierce melodrama separates this novel from most of Dickens's other works. The storyline alternates between Britain and the United States in ways which highlight the failings of both societies.
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To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Hardcover (Gardners Books, Aug. 31, 1991)This is the story of a woman and her family experiencing the passage of time and seeking to recapture meaning from the flux of things. Though Mrs Ramsay's death is the event on which the novel turns, her presence pervades every page in a poetic evocation of loss and memory.
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The Trial
Franz Kafka, Willa Muir
Hardcover (Gardners Books, May 31, 1992)Book by Kafka, Franz
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Master Humphrey's Clock and Other Stories
Charles Dickens, Peter Mudford, Mudford Peter
Paperback (Everyman Paperback Classics, Nov. 3, 1997)This unique selection of shorter fiction - The Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble, Master Humphrey's Clock, The Lamplighter's Story, To Be Read at Dusk, Hunted Down and George Silverman's Explanation-offers a fine insight into the workings of Dickens's creative genius. Written between 1837 and 1870, they span his career and exemplify his power to entertain.