Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen.
Elizabeth Bennet is the perfect Austen heroine: intelligent, generous, sensible, incapable of jealousy or any other major sin. That makes her sound like an insufferable goody-goody, but the truth is she's a completely hip character.
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Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott.
Little Women is one of the best-loved books of all time, as popular today as when it was written... Although it is actually a childrens book, it appeals to grownups as well... The story is largely autobiographical, the March girls being Louisas own sisters, with herself as Joe.
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte.
This unique and impassioned masterpiece is one of the greatest love stories of all time.
Jane Eyre, a plain and penniless orphan, is educated at a school for orphaned girls where she eventually becomes a teacher. At 18,driven by a desire to broaden her horizons, she takes up a position as governess at Thornfield Hall and heads into the depths of fate.
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The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck.
A classic novel by a Nobel Prize-winning author offers a graphic view of China during the reign of the last Emperor, and tells the story of an honest farmer and his wife as they struggle with the sweeping changes of the twentieth century. Reissue.
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Gorillas in the Mist
by Dian Fossey.
Although Dr. Fossey's work ended tragically with her murder, her book remains an enthralling testament to one of the longest field studies of primates, covering fifteen years in the lives of four gorilla families in Central Africa. Photos.
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The Feminine Mystique
by Betty Friedan.
The book that changed the consciousness of a country—and the world. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that launched the Second Wave of the feminist movement. |
The Female Eunuch
by Germaine Greer.
When Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch was first published it created a shock wave of recognition in women, one that could be felt around the world. It went on to become an international bestseller, translated into more than twelve languages, and a landmark in the history of the women's movement.
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Fear of Flying
by Erica Jong.
Featuring a new introduction by the author, the influential novel on women's sexuality returns to expose a new generation of women to Isadora Wing's adventures when she meets the man who embodies her most erotic fantasies
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee.
In 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird won the Pulitzer prize; thirty years later shopping malls may have replaced the main street of Maycomb, Alabama, but not even thirty years of Civil Rights laws or the gentrification of ante-bellum estates render this book an anachronism.
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Gone With the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell.
The New York Times Book Review:
"This is beyond a doubt one of the most remarkable first novels produced by an American writer. It is also one of the best..."
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Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley.
Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece.
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein. This is actually the autobiography of Gertrude Stein. With complete self-assurance and audacity, speaking through the unassuming persona of her companion Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein indulged herself delightfully in this ode to Gertrude Stein and her literary/artistic circle.
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A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf, Mary Gordon (Foreword).
Surprisingly, this long essay about society and art and sexism is one of Woolf's most accessible works. Woolf, a major modernist writer and critic, takes us on an erudite yet conversational--and completely entertaining--walk around the history of women in writing.
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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte.
Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before: of the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and her betrayal of him.
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Coming of Age in Samoa
: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation
by Margaret Mead.
Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) launched Mead's career as an anthropologist, which was reaffirmed with the 1930 publication of New Guinea. In both volumes she theorizes that culture is a leading influence on psychosexual development.
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