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Description Max Beerbohm earned his fame as a caricaturist and essayist, and Zuleika Dobson is his only novel. Despite that, Zuleika has earned no small measure of fame, with the Modern Library ranking it 59th in its โ100 Best English-Language Novels of the 20th Century.โ Beerbohmโs essays were famous for their sharp wit and humor, and Zuleika follows in that traditionโBeerbohm himself called the novel โthe work of a leisurely essayist amusing himself with a narrative idea.โ The novel follows
Description Sons and Lovers, a story of working-class England, is D. H. Lawrenceโs third novel. It went through various drafts, and was titled โPaul Morelโ until the final draft, before being published and met with an indifferent reaction from contemporary critics. Modern critics now consider it to be D. H. Lawrenceโs masterpiece, with the Modern Library placing it ninth in its โ100 Best English-Language Novels of the 20th Century.โ The novel follows the Morels, a family living in a coal town,
Description Dead Souls is Nikolai Gogolโs last novel, and follows the tale of Pavel Chichikov, a down-on-his-luck gentleman determined to improve his lot in life. The story charts his scheme to purchase dead soulsโthe titles of deceased serfsโfrom wealthy landowners. The novelโs satirical take on the state of Russian society at the time leads Chichikov into increasingly difficult circumstances, in his attempts to cheat both the system and the cavalcade of townspeople he meets along the way.
Description Francisco de Quevedo holds the status of a man-of-letters in the same pantheon as Cervantes; but despite that, Pablo de Segovia is his only novel. Quevedo had circulated the manuscript privately for several years before it was published in 1626 without his permission. The novel is partly a satire of contemporary Spanish life, and a caricature of the various social strata Pablo encounters and emulates. Pablo himself is a low-born person who aspires to become a gentleman, but despite
Description A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder is perhaps James De Milleโs most popular book; sadly, De Mille didnโt get to see this novel grow in popularity, as it was first serialized posthumously, in Harperโs Weekly. De Mille had written the novel before the โlost worldโ genre had become saturated, meaning many of the ideas were fresh and original for the time in which it was written. But, since he didnโt succeed in publishing it during his lifetime, by the time the novel was
Description The Gadfly is set in 1840s Italy, at a time when the country was chafing under Austrian rule. The titular character is a charming, witty writer of pointed political satires who finds himself running with a crowd of revolutionaries. The plot develops as the revolutionaries struggle against the government and as the Gadfly struggles with a mysterious hatred of the Church, and of a certain Cardinal. The novel, with its complex themes of loyalty, romance, revolution, and struggle