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The years Virginia Woolf · 1937 · 452p · ≈ 15h · Moderate A stirring, straightforward work written near the end of her luminous career, Virginia Woolf's *The Years* is a portrait of the Pargiters, a staid London family presided over by Colonel Abel Pargiter. In some ways, "portrait" is not an entirely appropriate word, because Woolf's subject in this novel (and an abiding concern in all of her works) is fluidity and flux: the movement of the seasons… Shares Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, English literature, Social life and customs

No Thoroughfare Charles Dickens · 1800 · ★ 3.6 · 106p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Shares Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Social life and customs with this book.

Girl, Woman, Other

Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo · 2019 · ★ 4.5 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Moderate *Girl, Woman, Other* follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years. Joyfully polyphonic and vibrantly contemporary, this is a gloriously new kind of history, a novel of our times: celebratory, ever-dynamic and utterly irresistible. Shares Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, English literature, Social life and customs

The Middle Kingdom S. Wells Williams · 1848 · 810p · ≈ 27h · Demanding Shares Chinese literature, Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Social life and customs with this book.

The gold coast Nelson DeMille · 1990 · ★ 4.1 · 507p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Welcome to the fabled Gold Coast, that stretch on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America. Here two men are destined for an explosive collision: John Sutter, Wall Street lawyer, holding fast to a fading aristocratic legacy; and Frank Bellarosa, the Mafia don who seizes his piece of the staid and unprepared Gold Coast like a… Shares Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Romans

Jane Austen Louise Ross · 1995 · ★ 5.0 · 334p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Romans with this book.

Grand Sophy

Grand Sophy Georgette Heyer · 1950 · ★ 4.2 · 348p · ≈ 11h · Moderate When the redoubtable Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy is ordered to South America on business, he leaves his only daughter Sophia with his sister, Elizabeth Rivenhall, in Berkeley Square. Newly arrived from her tour of the Continent, Sophy invites herself into the circle of her relatives. When Lady Ombersley agrees to take in her young niece, no one expects Sophy, who sweeps in and immediately takes the… Shares Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Romans

White Nights

White Nights Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1961 · ★ 4.1 · 239p · ≈ 7h · Moderate White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a poignant short story about love, loneliness, and fleeting human connections. Set in St. Petersburg during the ethereal "white nights" of summer, it follows a dreamy, solitary narrator who meets a young woman named Nastenka. Over four nights, he shares his fantasies and feelings, while she confides her longing for a lost lover. As the narrator falls in love… Shares Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Romans

Flappers and Philosophers F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920 · ★ 4.0 · 134p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Flappers and Philosophers is a collection of short stories by America author F. Scott Fitzgerald, most famous for his novel The Great Gatsby. The collection was his first such publication and includes the stories "The Offshore Pirate", "The Ice Palace", "Head and Shoulders", "The Cut-Glass Bowl", "Bernice Bobs Her Hair", "Benediction", "Dalyrimple Goes Wrong" and "The Four Fists." Shares Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Romans

The Singing Sword (The Camulod Chronicles, Book 2) Jack Whyte · 1994 · ★ 4.5 · 624p · ≈ 20h · Challenging Shares Adaptations, Romans with this book.

The complete works of O. Henry [pseud.] O. Henry · 1899 · ★ 3.5 · 1396p · ≈ 46h · Demanding Shares Manners and customs, Social life and customs with this book.

Only Time Will Tell Jeffrey Archer · 2011 · ★ 4.5 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "From the popular author of Kane and Abel and A Prisoner of Birth comes the story of one family across generations, across oceans, from heartbreak to triumph. The epic tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in 1920, with the words, "I was told that my father was killed in the war." A dock worker in Bristol, Harry never knew his father, but he learns about life on the docks from his uncle who expects… Shares Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Romans

The troll garden Willa Cather · 1905 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Moderate "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

Proposal

Proposal Meg Cabot · 2016 · ★ 3.9 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Light The short story Mediator fans everywhere have been waiting years to read… a fun, fast-paced, never-before-read scene in which Suze Simon agrees to marry her no-longer-dead ghost boyfriend, Jesse de Silva!The last place Suze Simon expects to find herself during Valentine’s Day is a cemetery. But that’s what happens when you’re a mediator—cursed with the “gift” of communicating with the dead.That’s… Shares Romans

The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot Marianne Cronin · 2021 · ★ 4.3 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate An extraordinary friendship. A lifetime of stories. Seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson lives on the Terminal Ward at the Glasgow Princess Royal Hospital. Though the teenager has been told she’s dying, she still has plenty of living to do. Joining the hospital’s arts and crafts class, she meets the magnificent Margot, an 83-year-old, purple-pajama-wearing, fruitcake-eating rebel, who… Shares English literature

A Beleaguered City Margaret Oliphant · 1880 · 78p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Shares Supernatural with this book.

The Last Mrs. Summers

The Last Mrs. Summers Rhys Bowen · 2020 · 389p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Lady Georgiana Rannoch is just back from her honeymoon with dashing Darcy O’Mara when a friend in need pulls her into a twisted Gothic tale of betrayal, deception and, most definitely, murder. . . .I am a bit at loose ends at the moment. My cook, Queenie, is making my new role as mistress of Eynsleigh something akin to constant torture as Darcy is off on another one of his top secret jaunts. And… Shares English literature

The Room in the Attic

The Room in the Attic Louise Douglas · 2021 THE #2 BESTSELLERDiscover the latest chilling, unputdownable novel, from the Richard and Judy bestseller.A child who does not know her name…In 1903 fishermen find a wrecked boat containing a woman, who has been badly beaten, and a young girl. An ambulance is sent for, and the two survivors are taken to All Hallows, the imposing asylum, hidden deep on Dartmoor. The woman remains in a coma, but the… Shares English literature

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