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  A Room with a View

  E.M. Forster

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  First published in 1908, E. M. Forster’s “A Room with a View” is the story of a young English middle-class girl named Lucy Honeychurch. As the novel opens we find Lucy touring Italy with her overbearing older cousin and chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett. The two are upset over the views from their rooms. Having been promised views that overlook the river Arno, the two instead receive views of the courtyard. Their complaints are overheard by Mr. Emerson, who offers to swap rooms with them, citing the fact that he and his son George both have rooms that overlook the Arno. After a brief romantic encounter between George Emerson and Lucy while they are in Florence, the two travel on to Rome where Lucy is wooed by her friend from England Cecil Vyse. When Lucy learns from the vicar that a local cottage has been rented she discovers that the Emersons have arrived in Rome. Again the prospect of romance with George entices Lucy but she is torn between the more acceptable prospect of a union with Cecil. “A Room with a View” is the classic human struggle of choosing a partner who is the most socially acceptable versus the desire for true love.

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  Macbeth

  William Shakespeare

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  ""Is this a dagger I see before me?"" 
  Features a unique cover illustration by Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are), specially commissioned for the Shakespeare on Compact Disc series.

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  Silas Marner

  George Eliot

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  The villagers of Ravelo had the weaver Silas Marner marked as a miser but the only thing golden about Silas Marner was his heart. Silas Marner is a modest weaver accused of stealing the congregation's funds. The thief may really be Silas' best friend, William Dane, who has framed him but Silas is found guilty none-the-less. His fiancE abandons Silas and later marries William Dane. And so, it is with a broken heart, that Silas leaves his home and heads south. He lives as a recluse hoarding gold from his earnings. That too is stolen by the son of the town's leading landowner. But a child soon enters Silas’s life and changes it completely.

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  Les Misérables: Volume 4: The...

  Victor Hugo

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  Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics, satires, epics, philosophical poems, epigrams, novels, history, critical essays, political speeches, funeral orations, diaries, and letters public and private, as well as dramas in verse and prose.BOOK 5: THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING: Cosette's grief, which had been so poignant and lively four or five months previously, had, without her being conscious of the fact, entered upon its convalescence. Nature, spring, youth, love for her father, the gayety of the birds and flowers, caused something almost resembling forgetfulness to filter gradually, drop by drop, into that soul, which was so virgin and so young.

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  Winesburg Ohio - A Group of...

  Sherwood Anderson

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  Sherwood Anderson writes almost as if he were eavesdropping on the private domestic lives of a small Ohio town's inhabitants in the early 1900's. The central figure, George Willard, is a young budding journalist working for the local paper who allows the listener in on the latest gossip being circulated in this casual study of the insular Midwest, when America was still growing up.This timeless collection charted a new stylistic path for modern fiction. Through twenty-two connected short stories, Sherwood Anderson looks into the lives of the inhabitants of a small town in the American heartland. These psychological portraits of the sensitive and imaginative of Winesburg’s population are seen through the eyes of a young reporter-narrator, George Willard. Their stories are about loneliness and alienation, passion and virginity, wealth and poverty, thrift and profligacy, carelessness and abandon. With its simple and intense style, Winesburg, Ohio evokes the quiet moments of epiphany in the lives of ordinary men and women.Table of Contents1. The Book of the Grotesque2. Hands-concerning Wing Biddlebaum3. Paper Pills-concerning Doctor Reefy4. Mother-concerning Elizabeth Willard5. The Philosopher-concerning Doctor Parcival6. Nobody Knows-concerning Louise Trunnion7. Godliness , Parts I and II-concerning Jesse Bentley8. Godliness , Surrender (Part III)-concerning Louise Bentley9. Godliness , Terror (Part IV)-concerning David Hardy10. A Man of Ideas-concerning Joe Welling11. Adventure-concerning Alice Hindman12. Respectability-concerning Wash Williams13. The Thinker-concerning Seth Richmond14. Tandy-concerning Tandy Hard15. The Strength of God-concerning The Reverend Curtis Hartman16. The Teacher-concerning Kate Swift17. Loneliness-concerning Enoch Robinson18. An Awakening-concerning Belle Carpenter19. “Queer”-concerning Elmer Cowley20. The Untold Lie-concerning Ray Pearson21. Drink-concerning Tom Foster22. Death-concerning Doctor Reefy and Elizabeth Willard23. Sophistication-concerning Helen White24. Departure-concerning George Willard

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  The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll...

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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  The classic story about THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYL AND MR HYDE

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