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Villette
By Charlotte Brontë, A.S. Byatt (Introduction), Μαρία Λαϊνά (Translator), Ignes Sodre (Introduction)
With her final novel, Villette, Charlotte Brontë reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette is Brontë's most...
The Awakening
By Kate Chopin
An alternate cover edition exists here.She grew daring and reckless. Overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out. Where no woman had swum...
Great Expectations
By Charles Dickens, David Trotter (Introduction), Charlotte Mitchell (Editor)
See alternate cover edition hereDickens's magnificent novel of guilt, desire, and redemption The orphan Pip’s terrifying encounter with an escaped...
And Then There Were None
By Agatha Christie
First, there were ten—a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an...
Case Histories
By Kate Atkinson
The first book in Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie Mysteries series, called "The best mystery of the decade" by Stephen King, finds private...
Emma
By Jane Austen, Fiona Stafford (Introduction/Notes)
Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of...
Daughter of Fortune
By Isabel Allende , Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator)
Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her...