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June 04, 2006
Period Pieces
This is a list of novels that are, for lack of better term, period pieces - Victoriana and such. Boys - don't discount them for that reason. But they are, by and large, stories of propriety and nuance.
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen ♥
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ♥♥
- Emma by Jane Austen
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Nana by Emile Zola ♥
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte ♥♥
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert ♥
- Fingersmith by Sarah Waters ♥
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte ♥♥
- Ahab's Wife, or, The Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund ♥♥
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrellby Susanna Clarke
- Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier ♥
- The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins ♥♥
♥ = indicates a slight sentimentality warning.
♥♥ = indicates a strong sentimentality warning. Yeah. I know.
Posted by researchgirl at June 4, 2006 05:19 PM