Classic Collection 600: 283 books

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: The strands woven together in Gustave Flaubert's famous, path breaking 1856 novel Madame Bovary include a provincial town in Normandy, France, a shy young doctor with an indifferent career and...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Ann Veronica was a controversial book detailing the development of a naive school girl into a “New Woman”. When it was published, the Spectator described it as a “poisonous book … capable...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: This early work by Sheridan Le Fanu was originally published in 1851. Born in Dublin in 1814, he came from a literary family of Huguenot origins; both his grandmother Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu and his...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu is best known today as one of the Victorian period's leading exponents of supernatural fiction, and was described by M.R. James as standing 'absolutely in the first rank as a...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: This intimate portrait of a coal-miner’s family fastens on each member in turn: Walter Morel, the collier; Gertrude, his wife; and the children: William, Annie, Arthur, and Paul. When Mrs. Morel...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: If you have read DH Lawrence's The Rainbow, you'd certainly want to read the sequel, Women in Love. Published in 1920, the two books were originally meant to be a single work, spanning several...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Set against the backdrop of a rapidly industrializing England, the bewildering shift in social structure, the fading away of traditions and the advent of new ways of life, The Rainbow by DH Lawrence...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Brief Encounter meets Tristan und Isolde – on the Isle of Wight, under a vast sky florid with stars. The consequence is tragic indeed for one of the parties, Siegmund, when he sacrifices family...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the premier ghost story writer of the nineteenth century and had a seminal influence on the development...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: To the literary, literal, and scientific mind purposeless fiction is abhorrent. Fortunately we all are literally and scientifically inclined; the doom of purposeless fiction is sounded; and it is a great...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: A pastor's daughter is inadvertently involved the heist of the famous Dark Star gem. Is there a prince who can save her from ruin and recover the stone? Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 - December...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: How long would you walk, if the Devil sauntered up to you of an evening, and journeyed alongside of you? Young Goodman Brown is led by the Devil to a midnight ritual, where fire, blood, and water change...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: When a young pair of newlyweds settle down into a small cottage in a quiet village, they look forward to a pleasant, pastoral life of domestic bliss. The husband, a practical man, dismisses the superstitious...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: When Eastern society girl Beatrice “Trix” Lansell arrives in Montana for a visit with her brother, she is swept off her feet by the majestic, rugged beauty of the land, by the simplicity and satisfaction...