Beautiful Joe  |
| Margaret Marshall Saunders (1861 - 1947) |
1894 Best Seller.
A fictionalised 'autobiography' of the true story of a dog named 'Beautiful Joe'.
Joe's abusive original owner savagely mistreated him.
The book became very popular and greatly contributed to the worldwide awareness of animal cruelty.
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| The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse |
| Vincente Blasco Ibanez (1867 - 1928) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1919.
A short time before the outbreak of WWI the Desnoyers family move from Argentina to France. The family includes both French and German elements and the war only amplifies existing tensions.
Argentine son Julio must choose between his current dissolute lifestyle and stepping up to the responsibilities the war brings, and then live with the consequences...
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| The Man of the Forest |
| Zane Grey (1872 - 1939) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1920.
Milt Dale, the man of the forest, overhears a plot to kidnap a young woman and cannot in good conscience do nothing. He sets out to save the girl ...
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| Madame Bovary |
| Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880) |
A seminal work of Realism, and one of the most influential novels ever written.
"What is remarkable in Madame Bovary is that its mediocre beings, with their earthbound ambitions and pedestrian problems, impress us, by virtue of the structure and the writing that create them, as beings who are out of the ordinary within their ordinary manner of being." - Mario Vargas Llosa, in The Perpetual Orgy
The novel focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, as she spirals out of control trying to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.
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| A Message from the Sea |
| Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) |
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| Coniston |
| Winston Churchill (1871 - 1947) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1906.
It is important to note that the author is not the famed English politician and author, but an unrelated American writer.
A fictionalized look at mid 1800s New Hampshire politics. Churchill shares with many a nostalgic view of the Granite State while exposing corruption at all levels of it's politics.
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| If Winter Comes |
| A.S.M. Hutchinson (1880 - 1971) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1922.
Hutchinson makes a compelling story out of a difficult subject; an unhappy marriage, a divorce, and an unwed mother who commits suicide.
The book was almost immediately adapted as a film, and also republished in the 1940's.
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