Isak Dinesen | Seven Gothic Tales | Here are seven exquisite tales combining the keen psychological insight characteristic of the modern short story with the haunting mystery of the nine
Iris Murdoch | An Unofficial Rose | After his wife’s death, Hugh contemplates returning to his former mistress. His son, Randall, longs to abandon his shapeless marriage for a perfect pa
Helen R. Hull | Quest | An over-emotional girl, seeking escape from home tensions, develops crushes on a classmate and on a teacher. her mother’s over-reaction turns the girl
Honore de Balzac | Cousin Bette | Cousin Bette (1847) vividly brings to life the rift between the old world and the new and is, among other things, a serious study of the Paris demimon
Sinclair Lewis | Ann Vickers | The novel follows the heroine, Ann Vickers, from tomboy school girl in the late 19th century American Midwest, through college, and into her forties.
Luise Rinser | Rings of Glass | Rinser started writing while teaching grade school; her first book, ”Rings of Glass,” a coming-of-age novel, was published in Berlin in 1941. It was
Cecil Dawkins | Charleyhorse | Charley was born wanting things she wasn’t supposed to want: horses, spring calving, flying planes, and driving combine harvesters. When Juna, a new s
L.J. Webb | Walking the Dusk | Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney gave vent to her chaotic emotions and turbulent desires in millions of words: in journals and diaries that chronicled he
Struthers Burt | Entertaining The Islanders | Sophisticated, satirical, novel in which a man becomes aware that his ex-sweetheart has been captivated by another woman
Louis Bromfield | The Rains Came | In a long novel of India there is a brief but important episode involving two old missionary ladies. The elder, an engaging old battleax, muses as she
