18 books like England, my England

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Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh · 1945 · ★ 4.0 · 327p · ≈ 10h · Challenging The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles… Shares: Community pick

North of Boston Robert Frost · 1910 · 141p · ≈ 4h · Challenging From the book:SOMETHING there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone, But they would have the rabbit out of hiding, To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I… Shares: Personal copy, Library

Essays Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1800 · ★ 4.2 · 274p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Welcome to the Essays collection. A special selection of the nonfiction prose from influential and noteworthy authors. This book brings some of best essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, across a wide range of subjects, including individuality, freedom, society and many more topics. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.… Shares: Personal copy, Library

Short stories Guy de Maupassant · 1893 · ★ 4.5 · 334p · ≈ 11h · Challenging This is a works of the short stories by Guy de Maupassant. The Diamond Necklace  The Diary of a Madman  Farewell The False Gems The Gamekeeper The Horla  The Inn In the Moonlight The Mad Woman The Marquis de Fumerol The Moribund The Piece of String The Story of a Farm Girl Theodule Sabot's Confession The Trip of the Horla Useless Beauty "Who Knows?" The Wolf The Wreck The Wrong… Shares: Personal copy, Library, Manners and customs, Social life and customs

Soldiers three, The story of the Gadsbys, In black and white Rudyard Kipling · 1895 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Shares: Manners and customs in fiction, Short Stories Shares: Manners and customs in fiction, Short Stories

Lectures in America Gertrude Stein · 1935 · 246p · ≈ 8h · Challenging "This collection, a retrospective exhibit of the work of a woman who created a unique place for herself in the world of letters, contains a sample of practically every period and every manner in Gertrude Stein's career. It includes The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in its entirety; selected passages from The Making of Americans; "Melanctha"from Three Lives; portraits of the painters Cezanne,… Shares: Personal copy, Library

The Deserted Village Oliver Goldsmith · 1770 · 30p · ≈ 1h · Demanding This long poem by eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish poet Oliver Goldsmith about the destruction of an English village was published in New York in 1917, with 35 illustrations by the Etching Club. Shares: Personal copy, Library

The complete works of O. Henry [pseud.] O. Henry · 1899 · ★ 3.8 · 1396p · ≈ 46h · Demanding The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century’s most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of… Shares: Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Short Stories

The troll garden Willa Cather · 1905 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Challenging "This collection of Willa Cather stories - her first book of fiction and the capstone of her early career - is as relevant today as at the time of its initial publication. As different and individually distinguished as the seven stories may be, they share as their subject the role and status of the artist in American society. The passions, ambitions, and pretensions, the cant and the pathos of… Shares: Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Short Stories

The ruling passion Henry van Dyke · 1901 · ★ 3.7 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Challenging This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true… Shares: Manners and customs, Short Stories

Piazza Tales Herman Melville · 1856 · ★ 3.4 · 266p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Shares: Manners and customs in fiction, Manners and customs, Short Stories Shares: Manners and customs in fiction, Manners and customs, Short Stories

Debits and credits Rudyard Kipling · 1926 · ★ 3.6 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Debits and Credits, Rudyard Kipling. TEI XML version of http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/debits/ . Shares: British and irish fiction, Short Stories

The peppered moth Margaret Drabble · 2000 · ★ 3.3 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate "It is 1912 and Bessie Bawtry is a small child living in Breaseborough, a South Yorkshire mining town. Unusually gifted, she sits quietly and studies hard, waiting for the day when she can sit the Cambridge entrance exam and escape the kind of life her ancestors have never even thought to question. Her parents are in awe of her - who is this swan-child, is she a freak? (Where did she get her… Shares: Manners and customs, British and irish fiction, Social life and customs

Tales of Henry James · 1893 · 451p · ≈ 15h · Challenging The last of the Valerii.--The real thing.--The lesson of the master.--Daisy Miller. Shares: Manners and customs in fiction, Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Short Stories

Hudibras Samuel Butler · 1662 · 412p · ≈ 13h · Demanding The celebrated mock-epic satirizing the English republicans, with Zachary Grey's notes, which kept Butler's world of outmoded learning accessible to later generations. Shares: Personal copy, Library

Amelia Henry Fielding · 1751 · 594p · ≈ 19h · Demanding Against her mother's wishes, Amelia marries Captain William Booth, a young army officer, and runs away to London. William is unjustly imprisoned in Newgate, and is subsequently seduced by Miss Matthews. Amelia stays faithful to her husband and forgives his transgression, but William soon draws them into trouble again as he accrues gambling debts trying to lift the couple out of poverty. Shares: Manners and customs, British and irish fiction, England, Social life and customs

Orley Farm Anthony Trollope · 1861 · ★ 4.0 · 610p · ≈ 20h · Demanding When Joseph Mason of Groby Park, Yorkshire, died, he left his estate to his family. A codicil to his will, however, left Orley Farm (near London) to his much younger second wife and infant son. The will and the codicil were in her handwriting, and there were three witnesses, one of whom was no longer alive. A bitterly fought court case confirmed the codicil. Twenty years pass. Lady Mason lives… Shares: Manners and customs, British and irish fiction, England, Social life and customs

The mystery of Edwin Drood Charles Dickens · 1870 · ★ 3.7 · 350p · ≈ 11h · Challenging The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final, uncompleted novel by Charles Dickens. John Jasper is a choirmaster who is in love with one of his pupils, Rosa Bud. She is the fiancee of his nephew, Edwin Drood. A hot-tempered man from Ceylon also becomes interested in her and he and Drood take an instant dislike to one another. Later, Drood disappears, and as Dickens never finished the novel, Drood's… Shares: England in fiction, British and irish fiction, England, Social life and customs

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