Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive
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Published May 2022
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Published May 2021
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by Gregory Blake Smith
Published Jan 2019
A richly layered novel of love, ambition, and duplicity, set against the storied seascape of Newport, Rhode Island.
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Published Sep 2012
With devastating wit and an abiding understanding of and affection for his characters, Jeffrey Eugenides revives the motivating energies of the Novel, while creating a story so contemporary and fresh that it reads like the intimate journal of our own lives.
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
by Peter Ackroyd
Published Sep 2010
When two nineteenth-century Oxford studentsVictor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelleyform an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only come from one of the world's most accomplished and prolific authors.
by Toni Morrison
Published Aug 2009
A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prizewinning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.
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'Faber's mastery of character, evocative descriptions of Victorian England, and rich dialogue, together with his weaving of enduring themes throughout a complex plot, creates a remarkable novel.'
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