Set in and around New Orleans, The Awakening tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother. While a vacation, Edna meets the son of a Louisiana resort owner, with whome she gradually falls in love. As she pulls away from her husband, Edna begins to develop a sense of her-self as a whole perpon, with unique wants, interests, and desires. Determined to control her own life, she flouts convention by moving out of her husband`s house, having an adulterous affair, and becoming an artist

The Rise of Silas Lapham, one of the first American novels of manners, one of the first to look at the American businessman and self-made millionaire, and one of the first to employ realism - a style that would come to dominate twentieth-century American fiction

A master of characterization, Stendhal paints a fascinating, multi-layered portrait of Julien Sorel, who endures as one of literature`s most complex and sirprisingly sympathetic characters - a would-be manipulator out of his depth in a sea of sharks

Through first published in 1908, when "motor-cars" were new and rare, The Wind in the Willows presents surprisingly contemporary - and uproariously funny - portraits of speed-crazed Mr.Toad, generous Badger, poetic Ratty, and newly emancipated Mole. And lurking all the while within the humor and good spirits, Grahame proffers deep-felt comments about the values of courage, generosity, and friendship

One of the greatest mystery thrillers ever written, Wilkie Collin`s The Woman in White was a phenomenal best-seller in the 1860s, achieving even greater success than works by Dickens, Collin`s friend and mentor

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle narrates about adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The book contains the following novels: "The Return of Sherlock Holmes", "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes", "His Last Bow", "The Case book of Sherlock Holmes"

Highly controversial because of its frank look at the sexual hypocrisy of Victorian society, Thomas Hardy`s Tess of the d`Urbervilles was nonetheless a great commercial success when it appeared in 1891. It is now considered one of the finest novels in English

Mainly this book is about what wealth can do with people. Young couple, parties, dying marriage and millions after death of Anthony`s grandfather

This Side of Paradise, became an instant best seller and estalished the image of seemingly carefree, party-mad young men and woman out to create a new morality for a new, postwar America. The story traces the early life of Amory Blaine from the end of prep school through Princeton University to the start of an uncertain career in New York City

A haunting tale of romantic self-deception, The Return of the Native focuses on mismatched lovers see in each other only what they want to see, and ignore what is actually there