mimi10v3Social perception across centuries: Austen's wit, Woolf's transformations, Alcott's earnestness, Fitzgerald's shimmer, and many other negotiations between private desire and public form.
The recorded ratings average 6.6/10, with 0 perfect tens. Recurring authors include Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, John Steinbeck.
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Orlando
About the bookVirginia Woolf’s 1928 novel follows Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabethan England who, after a mysterious three-century sleep, awakens in the modern era as a woman. This fantastical…
9/10Classic Literature : Literary FictionThe Great Gatsby
About the bookNarrated by the enigmatic Nick Carraway, this novel follows the mysterious Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire in West Egg, Long Island, who throws lavish parties in an attempt to recap…
8/10Classic Literature : Literary FictionEmma
About the bookJane Austen's 1815 novel follows Emma Woodhouse, a young woman in the village of Highbury who is handsome, clever, and rich, yet also headstrong and prone to self-satisfaction. Austen c…
8/10Classic Literature : Literary FictionJane Austen: The Complete Collection
About the bookThis Penguin Classics volume gathers Jane Austen's six major novels—Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, and Sense and Sensibility—along with the epi…
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| 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2] | Various Authors | 2017 | 6 | Read | → |
| A Shadow Passes (Classic Reprint) | Eden Phillpotts | 1919 | 4 | Read | → |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | 1878 | 6 | Read | → |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 1866 | 6 | Read | → |
| Emma | Jane Austen | 1815 | 8 | Read | → |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | 1861 | 7 | Read | → |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | 1899 | — | Read | → |
| Independent People | Halldór Laxness | 1934 | 7.5 | Read | → |
| Jacob's Room | Virginia Woolf | 1922 | — | Unread | → |
| Jane Austen: The Complete Collection | Jane Austen | 2006 | 8 | Read | → |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | 1847 | — | Read | → |
| Moods | Louisa May Alcott | 1991 | 5 | Read | → |
| Mrs Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | 1925 | — | Read | → |
| My Ántonia | Willa Cather | 1918 | — | Unread | → |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | 1937 | 6 | Read | → |
| Orlando | Virginia Woolf | 1928 | 9 | Read | → |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 1813 | 8 | Read | → |
| Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse | 1922 | 4 | Read | → |
| Some Prefer Nettles | Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | 1929 | — | Unread | → |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger | 1945 | — | Read | → |
| The Children | Edith Wharton | 1928 | — | Unread | → |
| The Game | Jack London | 2001 | 4 | Read | → |
| The Glass Bead Game | Hermann Hesse | 1943 | — | In catalog | → |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 1939 | — | Read | → |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1925 | 9 | Read | → |