Cher on Mermaids reading Peyton Place by Grace Metalious, the novel tells the story of three women who are forced to come to terms with their identity, both as women and as sexual beings, in a small, conservative, gossipy town. In Mermaids Cher’s cha...
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
The Bell Jar is the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath. It is supposedly semi-autobiographical, with the names of places and people changed. The book is often regarded as a roman à clef because the protagonist's descent i...
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath - 10 Things I Hate About You
The greatest 'state of the nation' novel in English, Middlemarch addresses ordinary life at a moment of great social change, in the years leading to the Reform Act of 1832. Through her portrait of a Midlands town, George Eliot addresses gender relati...
Middlemarch by George Eliot on Sex Education
Proof is a 1985 thriller novel by British author Dick Francis featuring protagonist Tony Beach, a wine merchant who gets entangled in a dangerous investigation involving illicit horse racing alcohol operations.
Proof by Dick Francis on Sex and The City
Still Life With Woodpecker (1980) is the third novel by Tom Robbins, concerning the love affair between an environmentalist princess and an outlaw. The novel encompasses a broad range of topics, from aliens and redheads to consumerism, the building o...
Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a portal fantasy novel written by British author C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1950. It is the first published and best known of seven novels in The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956). The girl’s cha...
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Novel by C. S. Lewis on An Education
Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, essayist and playwright. He was a leading figure of modernist poetry in the English language where he reinvigorated the art through his use of language, writing style, and verse structure.