North and South (Oxford World's Classics)35 reviews Elizabeth Gaskell Oxford University Press, USA, 1998 Surprisingly modern tale of class conflict, management theory, and of course, love + Will read it again and again! + An excelent book to any person + "brutalised both as to his pleasures and his pains"             Emma (Signet Classics)208 reviews Jane Austen Signet Classics, 1996 Emma Woodhouse + Romantic Mystery + A Good Start To My Austen Book Craze + Comedy of Errors on a Georgian Stage             Great Expectations1 review Charles Dickens Pocket, 2004 Oliver Twist and Fagin Return. My only real complaint about this book is that Orlick seems to be an annoying intrusion. Both of the "Great Expectations" movies I saw deleted the role of Orlick, and I can't say I missed him. Along with "Oliver Twist," "Great Expectations" was one of my father's favorite Dickens books. (I suspect ...             Wives and Daughters (Penguin Classics)37 reviews Elizabeth Gaskell Penguin Classics, 1997 wives and daughters by elizabeth gaskell + Gaskell's Wives and Daughters + Nothing every-day about this Victorian chronicle I love this story. For anyone that likes Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre. This is in a similar vein but less intense. Very good read and video.             Hester (Oxford World's Classics)3 reviews Margaret Oliphant Oxford University Press, USA, 2003 A Wonderful tale from a lesser known 19C author + Margaret Oliphant Revisited + Good Story and Very Well Written This is the story of Catherine and Hester Vernon, and the relationship between the two women and the one man whom both of them loved; Catherine as a son and Hester as a woman. Catherine once saved the family bank from ruin at the hands of Hester's reckless father when he fled the country in ...             The Mayor of Casterbridge (Oxford World's Classics) Thomas Hardy Oxford University Press, USA, 2004 Set against the backdrop of peaceful south-west England, where Thomas Hardy spent much of his youth, The Mayor of Casterbridge captures the author's unique genius for depicting the absurdity underlying much of the sorrow and humor in our lives. Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets drunk at a local fair and impulsively sells his wife Susan and baby daughter. Eighteen years ...             Armadale (Penguin Classics)13 reviews Wilkie Collins Penguin Classics, 1995 A Spectacular Suspense Thriller - Collins At His Best!! + Wilkie Does It Again - Great Story with a Great Villian + A psychologial study, intrigue and suspense, love over evil + Psychological Experiment Disguised as Elegant Suspense Thriller + Better than The Moonstone             Pride and Prejudice (Barnes & Noble Classics)2 reviews Jane Austen Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003 Ahh Jane Austen + Completely Enchanting I'm very biased because this is my favorite book of all time by one of my favorite autors. The story comes alive, the characters come alive. To me after years of reading and rereading the story, these characters are like people that really lived and I feel like I know them better then alot of real ...             Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)105 reviews George Eliot Penguin Classics, 2003 A laugh-out-loud funny book about one serious lady! + sophisticated, complex, original Masterpiece? Greatest English novel? Well, I don't know about that -- it's very good, but it's not perfect. But it is funny, and it's a page-turner. Our heroine, Dorothea, is an intellectual stuck in a very provincial town, and she just wants someone she can have an intelligent conversation ...             Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)32 reviews Charlotte Brontë, Michael Mason Penguin Classics, 2003 I love this book + This is one of the great books for love, passion and characters. + Even better than I remembered I read "Jane Eyre" because I'd had for a long time some vague sense that I'd like Jane Eyre as a character. And I was entirely right. I don't think I've ever quite connected so well with a character before - and I've never before understood so clearly why people still read great literature - ...             Wuthering Heights (Signet Classics)2 reviews Emily Brontë Signet Classics, 2004 Worthy of its place in the canon + Timeless How odd that Amazon does not consolidate the comments on the various editions of this book from different publishers. I read this book out of a certain sense of obligation -- I'd been reading other 19th century English literature and, with some trepidation, picked up Wuthering Heights to ...             Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor (Oxford World's Classics)15 reviews R. D. Blackmore Oxford University Press, USA, 1999 Excellent romantic and historical novel + Greatly underrated book + Simply Wonderful + Romanitic Adventure At Its Finest + A thundering good tale!             8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels (Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, ...23 reviews Jane Austen Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax Ltd, 2005 The Incredible Jane Austen + Great Value + Happy Customer Whoever is acquainted with Jane Austen's novels probably understands that her place in literature is almost unique for the period in which she wrote. She traveled her own road, and in the process published some of the most entertaining stories of any era. Don't bother to look hard for a hidden ...             The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Oxford World's Classics)62 reviews Anne Brontë Oxford University Press, USA, 1998 You must go back with me to the autumn of 1827 to meet Helen Huntington and learn her secret sorrows + Surprising + Loved this. + A Victorian tale for the modern reader + A good attemp             Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics)12 reviews Jane Austen Oxford University Press, USA, 2004 An investment in pleasure. + Jane Austin works + Read Twice, or Not At All. + great story but it took a little while to get into the rhythm of the language             King Lear (Signet Classics)53 reviews William Shakespeare Signet Classics, 1998 Helpful + THE BBC RADIO GIELGUD AUDIOBOOK IS NOT ABRIDGED BUT FIRST FOLIO ONLY LIKE THE NAXOS + Sir Alec Guiness's BBC radio recording of King Lear may be adequate for those familiar with this great play for our day + Review of the Signet edition of Shakespeare's "King Lear"             Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)32 reviews Charlotte Brontë, Michael Mason Penguin Classics, 2003 I love this book + This is one of the great books for love, passion and characters. + Even better than I remembered I read "Jane Eyre" because I'd had for a long time some vague sense that I'd like Jane Eyre as a character. And I was entirely right. I don't think I've ever quite connected so well with a character before - and I've never before understood so clearly why people still read great literature - ...             Wives and Daughters (Penguin Classics)37 reviews Elizabeth Gaskell Penguin Classics, 1997 wives and daughters by elizabeth gaskell + Gaskell's Wives and Daughters + Nothing every-day about this Victorian chronicle I love this story. For anyone that likes Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre. This is in a similar vein but less intense. Very good read and video.             Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor (Oxford World's Classics)15 reviews R. D. Blackmore Oxford University Press, USA, 1999 Excellent romantic and historical novel + Greatly underrated book + Simply Wonderful + Romanitic Adventure At Its Finest + A thundering good tale!             Hester (Oxford World's Classics)3 reviews Margaret Oliphant Oxford University Press, USA, 2003 A Wonderful tale from a lesser known 19C author + Margaret Oliphant Revisited + Good Story and Very Well Written This is the story of Catherine and Hester Vernon, and the relationship between the two women and the one man whom both of them loved; Catherine as a son and Hester as a woman. Catherine once saved the family bank from ruin at the hands of Hester's reckless father when he fled the country in ...