Barchester Towers Anthony Trollope http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2021 urn:isbn:0192834320 en 1857 Novels Religion http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2021.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2021.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2021.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2021.mobi Little Dorrit Charles Dickens http://www.feedbooks.com/book/687 urn:isbn:037575914X en 1857 Novels Upon its publication in 1857, Little Dorrit immediately outsold any of Dickens’s previous books. The story of William Dorrit, imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison, and his daughter and helpmate, Amy, or Little Dorrit, the novel charts the progress of the Dorrit family from poverty to riches. In his Introduction, David Gates argues that “intensity of imagination is the gift from which Dickens’s other great attributes derive: his eye and ear, his near-universal empathy, his ability to entertain both a sense of the ridiculous and a sense of ultimate significance.” http://www.feedbooks.com/book/687.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/687.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/687.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/687.mobi Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2042 urn:isbn:0192840398 en 1857 Novels Romance Madame Bovary scandalized its readers when it was first published in 1857. And the story itself remains as fresh today as when it was first written, a work that remains unsurpassed in its unveiling of character and society. It tells the tragic story of the romantic but empty-headed Emma Rouault. When Emma marries Charles Bovary, she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women's magazines. But Charles is an ordinary country doctor, and provincial life is very different from the romantic excitement for which she yearns. In her quest to realize her dreams she takes a lover, Rodolphe, and begins a devastating spiral into deceit and despair. And Flaubert captures every step of this catastrophe with sharp-eyed detail and a wonderfully subtle understanding of human emotions. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2042.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2042.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2042.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2042.mobi Rudin Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1920 urn:isbn:1426450427 en 1857 Novels Romance http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1920.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1920.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1920.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1920.mobi The Coral Island Robert Michael Ballantyne http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3951 en 1857 Novels Young Readers Adventure Three boys, fifteen-year-old Ralph Rover (the narrator), eighteen-year-old Jack Martin and fourteen-year-old Peterkin Gay, are the sole survivors of a shipwreck on the coral reef of a large but uninhabited Polynesian island. At first their life on the island is idyllic; food, in the shape of fruits, fish and wild pigs, is plentiful, and using their only possessions; a broken telescope, an iron-bound oar and a small axe, they fashion a shelter and even construct a small boat. Their first contact with other people comes after several months when they observe two large outrigger canoes land on the beach. The two groups are engaged in battle and the three boys intervene to successfully defeat the attacking party, earning the gratitude of the chief Tararo. The Polynesians leave and the three boys are alone once more. Then more unwelcome visitors arrive in the shape of pirates, who make a living trading, or stealing, sandalwood. The three boys conceal themselves in a hidden cave, but Ralph is captured when he sets out to see if the pirates have left, and is taken aboard the pirate schooner. Ralph strikes up an unexpected friendship with one of the pirates, "Bloody Bill", and when they call at an island to trade for more wood he meets Tararo again. On the island he sees all facets of island life, including the popular sport of surfing, as well as the practice of infanticide and cannibalism. Rising tension leads to an attack by the inhabitants on the pirates, leaving only Ralph alive and Bloody Bill mortally wounded. However they manage to make their escape in the schooner. After Bill dies, making a death-bed repentance for his evil life, Ralph manages to sail back to the Coral Island to be re-united with his friends. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3951.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3951.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3951.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3951.mobi The Professor Charlotte Brontë http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4064 urn:isbn:0199536678 en 1857 Novels Romance The Professor was the first novel by Charlotte Brontë. It was originally written before Jane Eyre and rejected by many publishing houses, but was eventually published posthumously in 1857. The book is the story of a young man, William Crimsworth. It describes his maturation, his loves and his eventual career as a professor at an all-girl's school. The story is based upon Charlotte Brontë's experiences in Brussels, where she studied as a language student in 1842. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4064.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4064.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4064.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4064.mobi