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  Monument of French Folly A...

  Charles Dickens

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  Charles Dickens was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
  A MONUMENT OF FRENCH FOLLY: It was profoundly observed by a witty member of the Court of Common Council, in Council assembled in the City of London, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty, that the French are a frog-eating people, who wear wooden shoes.

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  Emma

  Jane Austen

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  Emma, is a novel about youthful hubris and romantic misunderstandings. It is set in the fictional country village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls and Donwell Abbey, and involves the relationships among people from a small number of families. The novel was first published in December 1815, with its title page listing a publication date of 1816. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian–Regency England. Emma is a comedy of manners, and depicts issues of marriage, sex, age, and social status.Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like."  In the first sentence, she introduces the title character as "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and a happy disposition... had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." Emma is spoiled, headstrong, and self-satisfied; she greatly overestimates her own matchmaking abilities; she is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives; and her imagination and perceptions often lead her astray.Emma, written after Austen's move to Chawton, was her last novel to be published during her lifetime, while Persuasion, the last complete novel Austen wrote, was published posthumously.The novel has been adapted for a number of films, television programmes and stage plays.Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favorable social standing and economic security. Her works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism.

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  Ayala's Angel

  Anthony Trollope

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  "This is Trollope's eightieth tale. Though it is the work of an older man, it is perhaps the brightest and freshest novel he ever wrote. The story of a young woman forced to choose a husband from among three unsavory men, the novel is remarkable for its wealth of minor characters and it  romantic exuberance."

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  The Beasts of Tarzan

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

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  In this story, Tarzan (formerly Lord Greystoke) is now in his mid-twenties and he and Jane have had a son, whom they've named Jack.  
  Tarzan is in his new home on the Waziri lands in Uziri, Africa, but has returned to his ancestral estate in London for the rainy season. when suddenly his son is kidnapped by marauders. 
  Determined to rescue his son, Tarzan must once again perilously navigate through treacherous jungles, fight dangerous animals, and outwit those who seek to harm his family.  With his faithful  friends in the jungle, Tarzan tests his strength, agility and resolve for his family's welfare.  
  E. R. Burroughs' vivid descriptions and heart-pounding action capture the essence of adventure and heroism, transporting readers into a world where courage and loyalty triumph over adversity.

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  10 Masterpieces You Have to Read...

  Edgar Allan Poe, William...

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  This book contains the following works:1. Edgar Allan Poe: The Gold Bug2. William Shakespeare: Romeo And Juliet3. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Faust4. Mark Twain: Adventures of Tom Sawyer5. Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Translator: Constance Garnett)6. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World7. Henry James: The Turn of the Screw8. Antoine de Saint-Exupery: The Little Prince (Translator: Marina Zhigalova)9. Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray10. Kate Chopin: The Awakening

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  Art of Being Photographed The...

  H. G. Wells

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  Herbert George "H. G." Wells (1866 - 1946) was an English writer.
  He was prolific in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is called a "father of science fiction"
  THE ART OF BEING PHOTOGRAPHED: "An album," said my uncle, as he sat and turned over my collection of physiognomy, "is, I think, the best reading in the world. You get such sidelights on the owner's heredity, George; distant cousins caricature his features and point the moral of his nose, and ancestral faces prophesy his fate.

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