Emma
Emma was the daughter of Mr. Woodhouse and Harriet, a pretty orphan who is resolved to scheme her advancement in society, oversees her education. Harriet rejects the advances of a local young farmer as...
Literature - Realistic
I Am One of You Forever
This is a short novel, composed of a succession of stories with the same characters. One of them, Jess, provides autobiographical elements to the work. If we focus on some specific aspects of the novel, we...
Sense and Sensibility
When Mrs Dashwood is forced to leave the estate on the death of her husband, she and her three daughters are cast aside by the stepson, John, who takes charge. They are forced to move to a small cottage in...
The Kamogawa food detectives
Excellent novel, very original, which has achieved great success in Japan and is being translated into many languages. The author was born in Kyoto in 1952 and has published about his city.
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Heart
Classic book for young people that takes the form of the diary of a twelve-year-old Italian boy. This resource allows De Amicis to create numerous episodes, and to provide the whole with a certain plot...
Little Dorrit
A notorious murderer in Marseilles tells his cell mate of how he killed his wife. Arthur Clennam is traveling back to London having been given a watch by his father on his death in China and was bringing it...
Anne of Green Gables
This book tells us the story of a young orphan girl of twelve who ends up mistakenly at the house of a rather elderly couple who wanted a boy of twelve to help tend the farm which is beginning to be too...
Kristin Lavransdatter
This fictional novel, consisting of three long volumes, is the masterpiece of the well-known Norwegian author, with which she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. She takes great care in every detail...
Vittoria Cottage
A novel set in England, just after the Second World War. The main character is Caroline Dering, a widowed woman with three children, who lives in Villa Vittoria. Almost at the same time two people arrive in...
Ilustrado
Winner of the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize, the novel uses various genres in telling the stories of two lives: that of the main narrator Miguel, who is a writer, and that of his mentor, Crispin Salvador....