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1) Ethan Frome
The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a futuristic novel set in London in 1984. Chesterton envisions neither great technological leaps nor totalitarian suppression. Instead, England is ruled by a series of randomly selected Kings, because people have become entirely indifferent. The joker Auberon Quin is crowned and he instates elaborate costumes for every sector of London. All the city's provosts are bored with the idea except for the earnest
...In this piercing story of innocence betrayed set in the thirties, the orphaned Portia is stranded in the sophisticated and politely...
8) Nana
10) Eugénie Grandet
11) On the road
12) A burnt-out case
14) Tortilla flat
15) Kim
16) The jungle
The Longest Journey (1907) follows the young Rickie Elliot's journey to maturity. Orphaned and lame as a child, Rickie was teased at boarding school and finds Cambridge to be a kind of paradise. He is not an intellectual, but is deeply affected by art and poetry, and is accepted within a philosophical circle of students. His new sense of belonging is challenged when he is visited by old friends from home.
18) The ambassadors
19) Erewhon
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