18 books like Basil

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Mr. Scarborough's Family Anthony Trollope · 1883 · 643p · ≈ 21h · Demanding It will be necessary, for the purpose of my story, that I shall go back more than once from the point at which it begins, so that I may explain with the least amount of awkwardness the things as they occurred, which led up to the incidents that I am about to tell; and I may as well say that these first four chapters of the book - though they may be thought to be the most interesting of them all… Shares: Inheritance and succession, Fathers and sons, British and irish fiction, Classic Literature

Windy McPherson's son Sherwood Anderson · 1916 · ★ 3.5 · 330p · ≈ 11h · Challenging This is a Historical Fiction Book. The bookl tells that A young boy grows up in rural Iowa. "At the beginning of the long twilight of a summer evening, Sam McPherson, a tall big-boned boy of thirteen, with brown hair, black eyes, and an amusing little habit of tilting his chin in the air as he walked, came upon the station platform of the little corn-shipping town of Caxton in Iowa. It was a… Shares: Young men, Fathers and sons

The Guilty River Wilkie Collins · 1886 · 124p · ≈ 4h · Challenging During his lifetime, British fiction writer Wilkie Collins came to rival Charles Dickens in popularity and critical acclaim. Like Dickens, Collins often gravitated toward characters who overcame significant obstacles to learn important life lessons. The novella The Guilty River continues in this vein, recounting an against-all-odds love affair that blossoms between a couple that each… Shares: British and irish fiction, Classic Literature, Mystery

The Awakening Kate Chopin · 1899 · ★ 3.7 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Challenging The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South. It is one of the earliest American novels that… Shares: Adultery, Interpersonal relations, Psychology, Classic Literature

The master of Ballantrae Robert Louis Stevenson · 1888 · ★ 3.7 · 354p · ≈ 11h · Challenging The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale is one of Stevenson's darker, more political novels. Two brothers are brought into conflict by the Jacobite rising of 1745, which tears their family apart. Shares: Inheritance and succession, Revenge, British and irish fiction

Weir of Hermiston Robert Louis Stevenson · 1896 · ★ 4.0 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Challenging In Stevenson's tale of father - son confrontation, the father, Adam Weir, is modelled on Lord Braxfield, the eighteenth-century 'hanging judge'. Weir, a 'risen man' who has married a wealthy but weak woman, is both feared and respected, not least by his own son, Archie. At a public hanging, Archie speaks out against capital punishment, knowing that it was his own father who sentenced the man. He… Shares: Young men, Fathers and sons, British and irish fiction

Women in Love D. H. Lawrence · 1877 · ★ 3.7 · 508p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Dark, but filled with bright genius, Women in Love is a prophetic masterpiece steeped in eroticism, filled with perceptions about sexual power and obsession that have proven to be timeless and true. Shares: Social classes, Interpersonal relations, British and irish fiction, Classic Literature

The Queen of Hearts Wilkie Collins · 1859 · ★ 4.0 · 344p · ≈ 11h · Challenging The queen of hearts is a playing card in the standard 52-card deck. Shares: British and irish fiction, Mystery

My Lady's Money Wilkie Collins · 1870 · 100p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Old Lady Lydiard sat meditating by the fireside, with three letters lying open on her lap. Shares: British and irish fiction, Mystery

The dynamiter Robert Louis Stevenson · 1885 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Challenging All fourteen-year-old Robbie Hendrick ever wanted was a family. Yet as another Mississippi summer begins, his wayward mother has run off again fearing a breakdown and he's left to burn the days caring for his half brother, Fess. As the deep days and nights pass without her return and with older brother Lucas dangerously in their lives again, Robbie must face the fact that his dream of a family… Shares: British and irish fiction, Classic Literature

Within the tides Joseph Conrad · 1915 · ★ 3.6 · 172p · ≈ 5h · Challenging In the private editorial office of the principal newspaper in a great colonial city two men were talking. They were both young. The stouter of the two, fair, and with more of an urban look about him, was the editor and part-owner of the important newspaper. Shares: British and irish fiction, Classic Literature

The Painted Veil William Somerset Maugham · 1925 · ★ 4.0 · 238p · ≈ 7h · Challenging A story of the beautiful but love-starve Kitty Fane who is forced to accompany her husband to the heart of a cholera epidemic. She is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love. Shares: Adultery, British and irish fiction

Clayhanger Arnold Bennett · 1910 · 415p · ≈ 13h · Challenging This coming-of-age story set in the Midlands of Victorian England follows Edwin Clayhanger as he leaves school, takes over the family business and falls in love. Bennett wrote it in 1910 at the Royal Albion Hotel, Brighton, and in Lausanne. Edwin Clayhanger's father, Darius, has risen from an extremely poor background, which Bennett repeatedly returns to, to become a prominent printer in Bursley.… Shares: Fathers and sons, British and irish fiction

The History of the Life of Jonathan Wild, the Great Henry Fielding · 1754 · ★ 3.4 · 287p · ≈ 9h · Demanding This book is a satire of Walpole that draws a parallel between Walpole and Jonathan Wild, the infamous gang leader and highwayman. He implicitly compares the Whig party in Parliament with a gang of thieves being run by Walpole, whose constant desire to be a "Great Man" (a common epithet for Walpole) should culminate only in the antithesis of greatness: being hanged. Shares: Criminals, British and irish fiction

R. Holmes & Co. John Kendrick Bangs · 1906 · ★ 3.4 · 266p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The son of Sherlock Holmes (who also happens to also be the grandson of thief A. J. Raffles) decides to have his own adventures published. Upon selecting the man who will chronicle his life (much as Watson did for Holmes), we get the tale Raffles' astonishing origin, followed by an exciting series of adventures involving burglary, extortion, armed robbery, and more-with Raffles treading the fine… Shares: Criminals, Mystery

Armadale Wilkie Collins · 1866 · ★ 4.0 · 346p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Cuando el anciano Allan Armadale escribe su terrible confesión en el lecho de muerte, no puede ni imaginarse las repercusiones que tendrá esa carta cuando su hijo recién nacido la lea años después. Por segunda vez, dos hombres con el mismo nombre y el mismo apellido se verán implicados en la prosecución de una herencia que parece maldita. Mientras tanto, se suceden las sigilosas intrigas de Lydia… Shares: Fathers and sons, British and irish fiction, Classic Literature, Mystery

Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen · 1811 · ★ 4.1 · 331p · ≈ 11h · Challenging When Mr. Dashwood dies, he must leave the bulk of his estate to the son by his first marriage, which leaves his second wife and three daughters (Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret) in straitened circumstances. They are taken in by a kindly cousin, but their lack of fortune affects the marriageability of both practical Elinor and romantic Marianne. When Elinor forms an attachment for the wealthy… Shares: Inheritance and succession, Social classes, Classic Literature

An African Millionaire Grant Allen · 1897 · 181p · ≈ 6h · Challenging "A genre classic, Grant Allen's AN AFRICAN MILLIONAIRE is the perfect addition to our mini library of classic crime fiction. Wealthy, confident, and handsome, Charles Van Drift is not accustomed to being swindled and his brush with Colonel Clay both rattles and infuriates him. As his South African diamond fortune takes hit after hit from the quick-witted master of disguise, Allen leaves even the… Shares: Classic Literature, Mystery

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