Classic (98)


91.

The World According to Garp by John Irving EN

Rating: 5 (5 votes)
Description:
The story of T.S. Garp, the bastard son of a feminist leader who is ahead of her time.

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The Yellow Sofa by Eça de Queirós EN

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Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
Description:
On discovering his wife in the arms of another man, the protagonist, Godofredo Alves, throws her out. But as the dishes pile up, Alves has second thoughts. What's more, does he really want to fight a duel that might get him killed? A spoof on honor by a 19th Century Portuguese writer.

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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston EN

Rating: 4 (5 votes)
Description:
One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in the captivating voice of a woman who refuses to live in sorrow, bitterness, fear, or foolish romantic dreams, it is the story of fair-skinned, fiercely independent Janie Crawford, and her evolving selfhood through three marriages and a life marked by poverty, trials, and purpose. A true literary wonder, Hurston's masterwork remains as relevant and affecting ... continue

94.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee EN

Rating: 4 (103 votes)
Description:
Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable ta... continue


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Under the Net by Iris Murdoch EN

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Country: Europe / Ireland flag Ireland
Description:
The sea: turbulent and leaden, transparent and opaque, magician and mother... When Charles Arrowby, over sixty, a demi god of the theatre- director, playwright and actor - retires from his glittering London world in order to `abjure magic and become a hermit', it is to the sea that he turns. He hopes at least to escape from `the woman' - but unexpectedly meets one whom he loved long ago. His Buddhist cousin, James, also arrives. He is menaced by a monster from the deep. Charles finds his `solitude' peopled by the drama of his own fantasies and obsessions.

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White Shroud by Antanas Škėma EN

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Country: Europe / Poland flag Poland
Description:
Considered by many to be Lithuania's most important work of modernist fiction, this novel tells the story of Antanas Garsva, an emigre poet working as an elevator operator in a large New York hotel in the 1950s.

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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë EN

Rating: 4 (21 votes)
Country: Europe / England flag England
Description:
At the centre of this novel is the passionate love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff - recounted with such emotional intensity that a plain tale of the Yorkshire moors acquires the depth and simplicity of ancient tragedy.