Love and Mr. Lewisham |
H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946) |
Love and Mr. Lewisham showcases H.G. Wells' deft writing outside the science-fiction genre. Mr.Lewisham is a young science student who leaves the country with ambitious dreams to live in London. His plans are thrown into turmoil, however, when he falls passionately in love with Ethel who along with her stepfather are involved in mystical charlatanism, beguiling the weak in exchange for monetary gain. This of course goes against Mr.Lewisham's ethical standards - will he be able to reconcile these differences? |
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Master and Man |
Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) |
The story Master and Man tells the tale of a master and his peasant who journey to another town for business in a blizzard. Lost on their way, the peasant begins to suffer from hypothermia verging on death. The master nonetheless feels compelled to press on in the journey until a moral revelation befalls him. How will he try to save his peasant? A very moving story. Classic Tolstoy story-telling. |
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Miscellaneous Papers |
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) |
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Sylvia's Lovers |
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810 - 1865) |
Charming Charley Kinraid, harpooner, captures the heart of Sylvia but is then press-ganged into service to fight Napoleon. Her cousin, Philip Hepburn, has designs on Sylvia and is not above withholding vital information to get his way. Thus is the stage set for disaster... |
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The Princess of Cleves |
Madame de Lafayette (1634 - 1693) |
Regarded by many as one of the first European novels and a classic of its era. Published anonymously in March 1678, and set in the royal court of Henry II of France a century earlier, it tells the story of the unspoken and unrequited love between Mme de Cleves and the irresistible Duc de Nemours. It recreates that era with remarkable precision as a backdrop for a poignant study of the human heart. |
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
Omar Khayyam (1048 - 1131) |
This is Edward Fitzgerald's poetic version. As a work of English literature, it was a high point of the 19th century. As a work of accurate line-by-line translation of Omar Khayyam's quatrains, it is noted more for freedom than for fidelity. This collection of four line poems have provided later authors with a rich source of titles and allusions; "The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ, Moves on: ...", "A book of verse, a jug of wine, and thou....". |
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