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Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes—and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must...
6) My Ántonia
10) Crow Lake
Here is a gorgeous, slow-burning story set in the rural “badlands” of northern Ontario, where heartbreak and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. For the farming Pye family, life...
12) O pioneers!
Alexandra...
13) Tending roses
But that's all about to change, now that he and...
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'
'Brilliant ... very probably the funniest book ever written' Sunday Times
When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly-named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders: cousin Judith, heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness; Amos, preaching fire
17) Promised to me
Dear Mother and Father, After all those years, I was certain Jakob Hirsch had forgotten me. Then came his proposal of marriage. With more impulse than wisdom, I crossed the ocean to begin a new life with him in Shadow Creek, Idaho. Little did I dream of the changes eleven years had brought to the man I once loved—which included three small children waiting with him at the station. I will not marry a stranger who no longer loves me, but I
...Published in 1852, this satirical novel, set in a communal farm called Blithedale, and based on Hawthorne's experiences at Brook Farm, explores the tragic friendship between four characters: Miles Coverdale, the narrator; Zenobia, a feminist; Hollingsworth, a misogynistic egomaniac; and Priscilla, an innocent young seamstress.