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Mythologies
1,650 LIn this magnificent collection of essays, Barthes explores the myths of mass culture taking subjects as diverse as wrestling.
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Narcissus And Goldmund
1,700 LA gripping, vivid novel which brings to life Europe in the Middle Ages, in all its beauty and horror.
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Nineteen Eighty -Four
3,250 LNineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is a dystopian novel that portrays a totalitarian society where personal freedom is non-existent.
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North and South
500 L‘But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.’
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Northanger Abbey
2,750 LMansfield Park is largely considered to be one of Jane Austen’s most ambitious novels, a darkly satirical glimpse into morality and social mobility within the nineteenth-century British class system.
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Northanger Abbey
1,500 LIn Bath, Catherine Morland meets Henry, a suitor and a fellow devotee of Gothic novels who invites her to his family home, Northanger Abbey. Ruins, locked doors, dark corridors… how could she refuse?
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Notes from Underground & Other Stories
650 LNotes from Underground & Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky. With an Introduction and Notes by David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottowa.
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Notes on a cuff and other stories
1,350 L“Notes on the Cuff,” a comically autobiographical account of how the tenacious young writer managed to begin his literary career despite famine, typhus, civil war, the wrong political affiliation, and the Byzantine Moscow bureaucracy.
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Old Man Goriot
1,300 LThis pessimistic case study of bourgeois society’s ills after the French Revolution tells the intertwined stories of Eugène de Rastignac, an ambitious but penniless young man, and old Goriot, a father who sacrifices everything for his children.
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Oliver Twist
500 LOliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist unromantically portrays the sordid lives of criminals, and exposes the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century.
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Oliver Twist
2,700 LOliver Twist is a story of a young orphan. His life in the workhouse is lonely and sad. Oliver becomes an apprentice for an undertaker but runs away after he gets into a fight with another apprentice.
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Oliver Twist
650 LOliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Introduction and Notes by Dr Ella Westland, University of Exeter Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers.
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Orlando
1,350 LOrlando: A Biography is one of the strangest books penned by Virginia Woolf, who lived from 1882–1941. Published in 1928, it follows the life of Orlando, born a man in Elizabethan England, who experiences a mysterious sex change at the age of 30 and stays alive for 300 years.
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Othello
500 LDramatic and powerful in its scope, ‘Othello’ explores the perils of suspicion and jealousy and the ensuing breakdown of relationships and disaster that can arise from such emotions. Othello secretly marries Desdemona, but is led to believe that she has been unfaithful to him by his ensign, Iago, leading to tragic events.
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Persuasion
500 LAnne Elliot is persuaded to reject a marriage proposal from handsome Captain Wentworth because he lacks rank or fortune. But when he returns home from the Navy, more than seven years later, Anne realises she still has strong feelings for him, despite the fact that his attentions have now turned towards her friend.
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Persuasion
2,750 L‘In Persuasion, Jane Austen is beginning to discover that the world is larger, more mysterious, and more romantic than she had supposed’ Virginia Woolf
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