Spanning nearly half a century The Old Wives Tale is epic in scale and scope tracing as it does the ..

There can be few writers who have painted such a penetrating picture of Victorian life. From the out..

Terry Malloy is a hoodlum caught between the beginnings of a conscience and the racketeers for whom ..

As with all Jane Austen's novels Persuasion draws much of its appeal from the author's talent for ob..

Deep within the dark passageways and chambers of the Paris Opera House lurks one of literature's gre..

Oscar Wilde's only published novel The Picture of Dorian Gray presents an intriguing idea: the main ..

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The Portrait of a Lady focuses first and foremost on the character and experiences of its heroine Is..

Pride and Prejudice is a masterpiece of wit and perception ridiculing the superficial manners of Jan..

Pride and Prejudice is a masterpiece of wit and perception ridiculing the superficial manners of Jan..

When the Bates Motel looms up out of the storm Mary Crane thinks it is her salvation. The rooms are ..

Northumberland. There he finds himself caught up in a vicious plot to bankrupt his father which has ..

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Alan Sillitoe was an integral part of the Angry Young Men movement of the fifties that focused on it..

Contemptuous of life as a carpenter?s son in his native town of Verrieres Julien Sorel dreams of a f..