The Virgin in the Garden
Author: A.S. Byatt
The Virgin in the Garden is a wonderfully erudite entertainment in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy, intersect richly and unpredictably…..Read More
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Still Life
As the early morning mist clears on Thanksgiving Sunday, the homes of Three Pines come to life – all except one…To locals, the village is a safe haven. So they… Continue Reading Posted in: Detective And Mystery Stories, Fiction, Quã©Bec
Jude the Obscure
Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he… Continue Reading Posted in: Classic Literary Fiction, Classic Literature & Fiction, Marriage, Social Conditions, Student Collection
Babel Tower
After her husband becomes violent, Frederica Potter flees with her young son to London. There, she secures a teaching position in an art school, and finds herself surrounded by painters… Continue Reading Posted in: 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Nineteen Sixties, Social Conditions
Hawksmoor
There is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe'So proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and man with a commission to build seven London churches to… Continue Reading Posted in: Church Architecture, Detective And Mystery Stories, Suspense Fiction
The Good Apprentice
Edward Baltram is overwhelmed with guilt. His nasty little prank has gone horribly wrong: He has fed his closest friend a sandwich laced with a hallucinogenic drug and the young… Continue Reading Posted in: Friendship, Religious Aspects, Religious Fiction
The Message to the Planet
An enthralling story of love and betrayal, faith and doubt, and the bewildered striving of men and women confronted with the mystery of being human "Full of the rough-and-tumble, the… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Religion
The Biographer’s Tale
Phineas G. Nanson, a disenchanted graduate student, decides to immerse himself in the messiness of ‘real life’ by writing a biography of a great biographer. But a ‘whole life’ is… Continue Reading Posted in: 1828 1906, Critics, Fiction, Henrik, Ibsen
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless… Continue Reading Posted in: Autobiographical Fiction, Domestic Fiction, United States Northwestern States
The Sea, the Sea
Iris Murdoch’s extraordinary exploration of human nature shines with intricate detail.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOHN BURNSIDEWhen Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, Solitude
Scum
It is 1906. The death of his seventeen-year-old son, Arturo, has disrupted the life of Max Barabander in Buenos Aires, sending him back to his roots in Warsaw. Having attained… Continue Reading Posted in: Short Stories (Books)
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