Friday 29 March 2013

CROME YELLOW by Aldous Huxley

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C32TK9U




CROME YELLOW
-illustrated with beautiful period pictures
-formatted for kindle to improve your reading experience
-linked table of contents to reach your chapter quickly

“One of the thousand novels everyone should read” The Guardian

“Among serious novelists, Aldous Huxley is surely the wittiest and most irreverent.” The Paris Review

“In Huxley's first novel, callow poet Denis Stone is invited to a house party at Crome . . . he falls ineffectually in love with his host's niece, and fails to capture the experience in verse, the remainder of the guests disport themselves in a variety of inventively idiosyncratic fashions, ranging from the declaiming of portions of the house's history to the losing of virginity on the rooftop. A crisp satire of the affectations of post-first world war lettered society. “ Sarah Crown

“Set during a summer stay at an English country house it is full of the intrigues and preoccupations of the guests. Denis is the central character, a poet who is frustrated in his unrequited love for Anne.” Mybookyear.co.uk

“Aldous Huxley began his literary career on the edge of Bloomsbury and ended it in Beverly Hills, the prophet of a dystopian future and advocate of LSD.” James Campbell, The New York Times

CROME YELLOW is Aldous Huxley’s's first novel and wittily satirizes the life and loves of the literary set of his day. Huxley is widely regarded as one of the founders of modern thought and his dystopian novel Brave New World was one of the most influential novels of the 20th Century.

Wednesday 27 March 2013

Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C137VB0




ALEXANDER’S BRIDGE
-illustrated with beautiful period pictures, includes 1922 author's preface
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“This is an amazing story about a successful engineer and his simultaneous romantic relationships with two brilliant and capable women . . . The book is an exploration of this important question: Is it possible for good and moral people to have a healthy extra-marital affair?” sexualityinart.wordpress.com

“The most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world almost as solidly as our five senses build the universe around us.” Rebecca West

“She is undoubtedly one of the twentieth century's greatest American writers” Observer

ALEXANDER’S BRIDGE is Cather's first novel. It tells the story of the tortured inner life of Bartley Alexander, the scion of a prominent Boston Brahmin family, torn between his love for his wife and his mistress. In it Cather first explores the themes of identity, doubling, and the interior versus exterior romantic conflicts that would occupy her throughout her writing.

Saturday 23 March 2013

WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Brontë

http://www.amazon.com/WUTHERING-HEIGHTS-Illustrated-ebook/dp/B00BWYV8NG/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/WUTHERING-HEIGHTS-Illustrated-ebook/dp/B00BWYV8NG/




The Definitive Edition of WUTHERING HEIGHTS
-Illustrated with beautiful paintings of the Yorkshire Moors where the story takes place
-Complete, unabridged, and formatted for kindle to improve your reading experience
-Linked table of contents to reach your chapter quickly

“If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn’t love you as much as I do in a single day.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Wuthering Heights, to my mind, is the greatest love story ever told. Emily Brontë's writing is unforgettably lyrical, passionate and so accomplished” Tara Moore Novelicious.com

“Wuthering Heights named Britain's favourite love story of all time” Daily Mail

“One of the hundred greatest novels of all time” The Guardian

“Emily Brontë's haunting classic about the doomed love between Cathy and the tormented Heathcliff, whose heartbreak propels him into a quest for revenge that reaches across generations.” BBC

Read one of the greatest love stories of all time in a beautifully presented edition specially designed for kindle with images of the Yorkshire Moors where the book is set. This is Emily Brontë’s masterpiece which will stay with you forever.

Friday 22 March 2013

The Prairie Trilogy by Willa Cather

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BY8Q9Z2



THE PRAIRIE TRILOGY
-illustrated with beautiful period photos of pioneer life
-complete and unabridged versions of the three novels which form The Prairie Trilogy
-formatted for kindle to improve your reading experience
-linked table of contents to reach your chapter quickly

Read Willa Cather’s three great novels of pioneer women from the prairies making their way in the world, struggling for love, careers, and independence.

Includes::
O PIONEERS!
THE SONG OF THE LARK
MY ÁNTONIA

O PIONEERS! is the story of the life and loves of Alexandra Bergson and her battle to save the family farm in the harsh conditions of turn of the century Nebraska.

“In all of American literature no one better captured the struggle of settlers on the Great Plains than Willa Cather in ’O Pioneers!’” New York Times

THE SONG OF THE LARK is a beautifully written tale of Thea Kronborg, a prairie girl who becomes an opera star
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“I loved both O, Pioneers! and My Ántonia, the two other novels that make up her “Prairie Trilogy”, but I think The Song of the Lark might be my favourite of the three. Cather’s honest and passionate treatment of artistic devotion is both fascinating and humbling, a reminder of the author’s own life as this is generally described as her most autobiographical novel.” The Captive Reader

MY ÁNTONIA is about ‘the bold, beautiful Bohemian girl, ‘Tony’ Shimerda, whose resilience and strength symbolises the pioneer spirit.’

"No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as 'My Antonia’” H.L Mencken

Thursday 21 March 2013

The Song of The Lark by Willa Cather

THE SONG OF THE LARK (illustrated)

http://www.amazon.com/THE-SONG-LARK-illustrated-ebook/dp/B00BW9RMU4/



THE SONG OF THE LARK
-illustrated with beautiful period photos
-formatted for kindle to improve your reading experience
-linked table of contents to reach your chapter quickly

“The story of a great American singer, – her childhood in the Colorado desert, her early struggles in Chicago, her romantic adventures among the ruins of the Cliff Dwellers in Arizona, her splendid triumphs on the operatic stage. It is a story of aspiration and conflict, of the magnificent courage of young ambition, and of the influence of four men upon the singer’s career.”

“I loved both O, Pioneers! and My Ántonia, the two other novels that make up her “Prairie Trilogy”, but I think The Song of the Lark might be my favourite of the three. Cather’s honest and passionate treatment of artistic devotion is both fascinating and humbling, a reminder of the author’s own life as this is generally described as her most autobiographical novel.” The Captive Reader

“Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark is an often brilliant, fierce story that gets deep inside the heart and mind of a rare musical artist.” The Loft Blog

“The most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world almost as solidly as our five senses build the universe around us.” Rebecca West

THE SONG OF THE LARK is the beautifully written tale of Thea Kronborg, a prairie girl who becomes an opera star.

THE SONG OF THE LARK is, presented here in a beautiful edition with period photos. It is the second novel of her 'Prairie Trilogy' which includes:
‘O PIONEERS!’
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BU8E9SU
‘MY ÁNTONIA’
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BNBTG8C

Friday 15 March 2013

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BU8E9SU



O PIONEERS!
-illustrated with beautiful period photos of pioneer life
-formatted for kindle to improve your reading experience
-linked table of contents to reach your chapter quickly

“In all of American literature no one better captured the struggle of settlers on the Great Plains than Willa Cather in ’O Pioneers!’” New York Times

”Rather, it is about pushing the envelope, about living life the way you want to live it without worrying about social decorum, about love.” Thatswhatsheread.net

“I found Cather’s depiction of Alexandra powerful and inspiring; she is a true heroine of American literature.” Book Snob

“Soft, light, fluent, black. Also tough - Cather in this book writes as much about human stoicism as about human passion.” A. S. Byatt

“The most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world almost as solidly as our five senses build the universe around us.” Rebecca West

O PIONEERS! is the story of the life and loves of Alexandra Bergson and her struggle to save the family farm in the harsh conditions of turn of the century Nebraska.

It is Willa Cather’s first masterpiece, presented here in a beautiful edition with period photos of pioneer farming families. It is the first novel of her Great Plains trilogy which includes ‘My Ántonia’ and ‘Song of the Lark’

Thursday 7 March 2013

The Virgin and The Gypsy by D. H. Lawrence

http://www.amazon.co.uk/THE-VIRGIN-AND-GYPSY-ebook/dp/B00BQ0KMKG/

http://www.amazon.com/THE-VIRGIN-AND-GYPSY-ebook/dp/B00BQ0KMKG/


THE VIRGIN AND THE GYPSY


THE VIRGIN AND THE GYPSY
-complete and unexpurgated with beautiful period photos
-formatted for kindle to improve your reading experience
-linked table of contents to reach your chapter quickly

“The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation” E. M. Forster

"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot." D. H. Lawrence

THE VIRGIN AND THE GYPSY is Lawrence’s final book, a stunning novella about personal and sexual liberation in which a vicar's daughter finds a passionate release from her mundane family life. Fresh from the freedom of a French finishing school, Yvette returns home to England and falls in love with an itinerant gyspy fortune teller.

D. H. Lawrence


David Herbert Lawrence was born in 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. His father was a coal miner, but his mother was determined that her children should not end up in the mines. He won a scholarship to Nottingham High School, although he left without qualifications. After studying at Nottingham University, Lawrence received his teaching certificate at 22.

His first novel, ‘The White Peacock was published in 1911, when he was 25. In 1912 he fell in love with Frieda von Richthofen, who was married to Professor Ernest Weekly. Frieda left her husband and three children, and eloped with Lawrence to Bavaria and then to Austria, Germany and Italy.

Lawrence's radical views on sex, life, and art earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life.

D. H. Lawrence died at Villa Robermond, in Vence, France on March 2, 1930.
A prolific novelist, story writer, critic, poet and painter, he was one of the greatest figures in 20th-century English literature.

D. H. Lawrence’s novels include: The White Peacock (1911),The Trespasser (1912), Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920), The Lost Girl (1920), Aaron's Rod (1922), Kangaroo (1923), The Boy in the Bush (1924), The Plumed Serpent (1926), Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), The Escaped Cock (1929), The Virgin and the Gypsy (1930). 

Wednesday 6 March 2013

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lady-Chatterleys-Lover-unexpurgated-ebook/dp/B00BNXRKMO

http://www.amazon.com/Lady-Chatterleys-Lover-unexpurgated-ebook/dp/B00BNXRKMO

Lady Chatterley's Lover (the unexpurgated edition)
The Definitive Edition of Lady Chatterley’s Lover
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-formatted for kindle to improve your reading experience
-linked table of contents to reach your chapter quickly

“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.” ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“The filthy book that set us free” Daily Telegraph

“Lawrence has written the best descriptions of sexual experience which have yet been done in English. It is certainly not true, as is sometimes asserted, that erotic sensations cannot or ought not to be written about. D. H. Lawrence has demonstrated here how interesting and how varied they are, and how important to the comprehension of any emotional situation where they are involved.” Edmund Wilson

“. . . the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the gamekeeper who works for the estate owned by her husband. Now that we’re used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, it’s apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, Lawrence’s masterful and lyrical writing, and a story that takes us bodily into the world of its characters.” Geoff Dyer

LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER is one of the most beautiful love stories in English fiction. Read the book that was banned for thirty years and whose publication and subsequent trial in 1960 changed culture forever.


D. H. Lawrence


“The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation” E. M. Forster

David Herbert Lawrence was born in 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. His father was a coal miner, but his mother was determined that her children should not end up in the mines. He won a scholarship to Nottingham High School, although he left without qualifications. After studying at Nottingham University, Lawrence received his teaching certificate at 22.

His first novel, ‘The White Peacock was published in 1911, when he was 25. In 1912 he fell in love with Frieda von Richthofen, who was married to Professor Ernest Weekly. Frieda left her husband and three children, and eloped with Lawrence to Bavaria and then to Austria, Germany and Italy.

Lawrence's radical views on sex, life, and art earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life.

D. H. Lawrence died at Villa Robermond, in Vence, France on March 2, 1930.

A prolific novelist, story writer, critic, poet and painter, he was one of the greatest figures in 20th-century English literature.

D. H. Lawrence’s novels include: The White Peacock (1911),The Trespasser (1912), Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920), The Lost Girl (1920), Aaron's Rod (1922), Kangaroo (1923), The Boy in the Bush (1924), The Plumed Serpent (1926), Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), The Escaped Cock (1929), The Virgin and the Gypsy (1930).