10 似ている本： 二都物語
自負と偏見
Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 novel of manners written by Jane Austen. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness.
Mr. Bennet, owner of the Longbourn estate in Hertfordshire, has five daughters,…
共通テーマ：British and irish fiction, English literature, Drama, Historical Fiction
嵐が丘
Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with Earnshaw's adopted son, Heathcliff. The novel was influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction.
共通テーマ：British and irish fiction, Drama, Historical Fiction, Children's fiction
アラバマ物語
One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and voted one of the best novels of the 20th century by librarians across the United States. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South…
共通テーマ：Classics
怒りの葡萄
Steinbeck’s classic novel of the Great Depression is as vivid now as ever. The story focuses on a family of Oklahoma sharecroppers, farmers who work another man’s land for a share of the crops. Driven from their home by drought and poverty they take to the road in a battered old truck and make their way to California to look for work. When they arrive they find hundreds of others like them being…
共通テーマ：Historical Fiction
自由の名の下に
At the turn of the fourteenth century in Scotland, young Archie Forbes becomes involved with both William Wallace and Robert the Bruce in the struggle for Scottish independence from English rule.
共通テーマ：Histoire, English literature, Historical Fiction, History
ゼンダ城の虜
An adventure novel, originally published in 1894, set in the fictitious European Kingdom of Ruritania. An English tourist is persuaded to impersonate the new king after he is abducted before he can be crowned. This act draws upon him the wrath of the Prince who has had the king abducted and his partner in crime the villainous Rupert of Hentzau.
共通テーマ：British, British and irish fiction, Classics, Children's fiction
小ドーリット
Upon its publication in 1857, Little Dorrit immediately outsold any of Dickens's previous books. The story of William Dorrit, imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison, and his daughter and helpmate, Amy, or Little Dorrit, the novel charts the progress of the Dorrit family from poverty to riches. In his Introduction, David Gates argues that "intensity of imagination is the gift from which…
共通テーマ：Fathers and daughters, British and irish fiction, Children's fiction
プライドと偏見
The first edition of the novel (1813).
Introductory materials and revised and expanded footnotes by Donald Gray and Mary A. Favret.
Biographical portraits of Austen by family members and— new to this edition— by Jon Spence (from Becoming Jane Austen) and Paula Byrne (from The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things).
Fourteen critical essays—eleven of them new to this edition. "Writers on…
共通テーマ：British and irish fiction, English literature, Drama, History
クリスマス賛歌
A retelling of the story about a miser whose life is changed by Christmas.
共通テーマ：British and irish fiction, Classics, Drama, Children's fiction
サクソン人のウルフ
In 11th-century Britain, a young thane named Wulf and his best friend, Beorn, fight bravely for their Saxon king, capturing castles, rescuing shipwrecked survivors, repelling Viking invaders, and fighting the Battle of Hastings.
共通テーマ：Histoire, History, Children's fiction