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The Evening and the Morning Ken Follett · 2020 · ★ 4.4 · 876p · ≈ 29h · Moderate 1 New York Times BestsellerAn Amazon Best Book of 2020 The thrilling and addictive prequel to The Pillars of the Earth--set in England at the dawn of a new era: the Middle Ages"Just as transporting as [The Pillars of the Earth] . . . A most welcome addition to the Kingsbridge series." --The Washington PostIt is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from… Shares: Great Britain, English literature

News from nowhere, or, An epoch of rest, being some chapters from a utopian romance William Morris · 1890 · 258p · ≈ 8h · Challenging "Written in 1890, at the close of William Morris's most intense period of political activism, News from Nowhere is a compelling articulation of his mature views on art, work, community, family, and the nature and structure of the ideal society. A utopian narrative of a future society, it is also an immensely entertaining novel.". "This Broadview edition includes a wide variety of contextualizing… Shares: Great Britain, English literature

The Runagates Club John Buchan · 1928 · 342p · ≈ 11h · Challenging John Buchan’s The Runagates Club is a classic of British interwar short fiction. These twelve stories appeared from 1913 to 1927, when he was at the peak of his powers, and feature Richard Hannay, Edward Leithen, and many newcomers to the Buchan canon. John Buchan designed The Runagates Club as a showcase for the best of his 1920s magazine fiction. He repurposed these stories with new… Shares: Great Britain, English literature

Hornblower and the Atropos C.S. Forester · 1920 · ★ 4.2 · 411p · ≈ 13h · Challenging In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. Her first assignment under Hornblower's command is as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson. Soon Atropos is part of the Mediterranean fleet's harassment of Napoleon, recovering… Shares: Great Britain, English literature

Reinventing King Arthur Inga Bryden · 2016 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Moderate In her systematic reassessment of the remaking of the Arthurian past in nineteenth-century British fiction and non-fiction, Inga Bryden examines the Victorian Arthurian revival as a cultural phenomenon, offering insights into the relationship between social, cultural, religious, and ethnographic debates of the period and a wide range of texts. Throughout, she adopts an intertextual and historical… Shares: Great Britain, English literature

Cat Among the Pigeons Agatha Christie · 1959 · ★ 4.2 · 262p · ≈ 8h · Moderate E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Cat Among the Pigeons;2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective.A revolution in the Middle East has a direct and deadly impact upon the summer term at Meadowbank, a picture-perfect girls’ school in the English countryside. Prince Ali Yusuf, Hereditary Sheikh of Ramat, whose great… Shares: Great Britain, English literature

Victorian writing about risk Elaine Freedgood · 2000 · 231p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "In Victorian Writing about Risk, Elaine Freedgood explores the geography of risk produced by a wide spectrum of once-popular literature, including works on politic economy, sanitary reform, balloon flight, Alpine mountaineering and African exploration. The consolations offered by this geography of risk are precariously predicated on the stability of dominant Victorian definitions of people and… Shares: Great Britain, English literature

Where Angels Fear to Tread E. M. Forster · 1920 · ★ 3.6 · 131p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) follows two women to Italy: the widowed Lilia Herriton and her traveling companion Caroline Abbott. Lilia falls passionately in love with the country, and also with a young Italian man. Her decision to remain in Italy enrages her dead husband's family, who send her brother-in-law to fetch her back. Shares: Great Britain, English literature

Trent's Last Case E. C. Bentley · 1900 · ★ 4.1 · 182p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Trent investigates the death of an industrialist. He solves the case three times, each time getting closer to the truth. Shares: Great Britain, English literature

King Henry VIII William Shakespeare · 1670 · ★ 3.5 · 136p · ≈ 4h · Demanding "This is the first fully annotated and comprehensive modern-spelling edition of King Henry VIII - known in its early performances as All is True - for over ten years. It makes full use of current scholarship on the dating, authorship, printing, and sources of the play, as well as critical interpretations, and includes an up-to-date survey of the play in performance. It is the first edition to… Shares: Great Britain, English literature

Casino Royale Ian Fleming · 1953 · ★ 3.7 · 180p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Introducing James Bond: charming, sophisticated, handsome, chillingly ruthless and licensed to kill. This, the first of Ian Fleming's tales of secret agent 007, finds Bond on a mission to neutralize a lethal, high-rolling Russian operative called simply "le Chiffre" -- by ruining him at the Baccarat table and forcing his Soviet spymasters to "retire" him. It seems that lady luck is taken with 007… Shares: Great Britain, English literature

Unbecoming women Susan Fraiman · 1993 · 189p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Is there a "female Bildungsroman"? Can the story of Elizabeth Bennet's development be yoked to a genre conceived in terms of Wilhelm Meister and David Copperfield? Unbecoming Women unpacks the ideological baggage of the Bildungsroman, and turns to novels of development and conduct books by women for a new poetics of growing up." "In subtle readings of works by Frances Burney, Jane Austen,… Shares: Great Britain, English literature

Saint Joan George Bernard Shaw · 1924 · ★ 3.8 · 163p · ≈ 5h · Challenging This classic traces the life of Joan of Arc from the time she appears to her regional governor, her visit to the Dauphin (where she is undeceived by his disguise) to the siege of Orleans, coronation at Rheims, trial and recantation, and culminating with her death at the stake. Followed by the famous epilogue regarding her canonization, Shaw explores the themes of faith, nationalism and… Shares: Great Britain, English literature

Origins of the individualist self Michael Mascuch · 1996 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate This book traces the emergence of the concept of self-identity in modern Western culture, as it was both reflected in and advanced by the development of autobiographical practice in early modern England. It offers a fresh and illuminating appraisal of the nature of autobiographical narrative in general and of the early modern forms of biography, diary and autobiography in particular. The result… Shares: Great Britain, English literature

Agnes Grey Anne Brontë · 1847 · ★ 3.7 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Challenging In her Introduction to an edition of "Agnes Grey," Barbara A. Suess writes "Bronte provides a portrait of the governess that is as sympathetic as her fictional indictment of the shallow, selfish moneyed class is biting." Anne Bronte relies on her own personal involvement in her duties as a home teacher to bring Agnes Grey to life. Agnes, a rector's daughter, must take employment as a governess to… Shares: Great Britain, English literature

The Accidental Ali Smith · 2005 · ★ 3.4 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The Accidental is a 2005 novel by Scottish author Ali Smith. It follows a middle-class English family who are visited by an uninvited guest, Amber, while they are on holiday in a small village in Norfolk. Amber's arrival has a profound effect on all the family members. Eventually she is cast out the house by the mother, Eve. But the consequences of her appearance continue even after the family… Shares: Great Britain, English literature

Henry VI, Part 3 William Shakespeare · 1600 · ★ 3.7 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Demanding Shares: Great Britain, English literature

The Surgeon's Mate Patrick O'Brian · 1980 · ★ 4.4 · 382p · ≈ 12h · Moderate | media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback) & Audio Book (Cassette, CD) Shares: Great Britain, English literature

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