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by Charlotte Brontë
The story of a young Englishman who becomes a teacher at a Belgian girls’ school from the author of Jane Eyre. -
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by Pearl S. Buck
A novel set in WWII Burma about a tragic Chinese–English alliance from the New York Times–bestselling author of Dragon Seed and The Good Earth. A trenchant critique of colonialism and wartime betrayal, The Promise is Buck at her evocative best. -
by D.H. Lawrence
This novel follows three generations of a family in rapidly changing England. One of the Modern Library’s 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
A daring, sensual novel by the author of Lady Chatterley’s Lover and other modern classics, The Rainbow was banned in England for years, and is now considered one of the greatest works of 20th century literature. -
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by Thomas Hardy
The great Victorian novel of love, ambition, and shattered illusions set in Hardy’s beloved, fictional English village of Egdon Heath.
One of Thomas Hardy’s most beloved novels, The Return of the Native brilliantly evokes the dangerous allure of romantic fantasies. Rich in mythological allusions yet grounded in the hard realities of nineteenth-century village life, it is one of the most heartbreaking tragedies ever told. -
by Andrea Stuart
“A comprehensive and truly empathetic biography. Andrea Stuart, who was raised in the Caribbean, combines scholarly distance with a genuine attempt to understand her heroine.” —The Washington Post
The acclaimed biography of Josephine Bonaparte, the Caribbean-born Creole who became the first wife of Napoleon and Empress of France. Using diaries and letters, Andrea Stuart brings her so utterly to life that we finally understand why Napoleon’s last word before dying was the name he had given her: Josephine. -
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