Rebecca - Abridged

Daphne Du Maurier

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . . Working as a lady's companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Life begins to look very bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. She accepts, but whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo to the ominous and brooding Manderley, the new Mrs de Winter finds Max a changed man. And the memory of his dead wife Rebecca is forever kept alive by the forbidding Mrs Danvers . . . Not since Jane Eyre has a heroine faced such difficulty with the Other Woman. An international bestseller that has never gone out of print, Rebecca is the haunting story of a young girl consumed by love and the struggle to find her identity. morehide

Collected Short Stories

E.M. Forster

Dedicated to Hermes - messenger to the gods and conductor of souls to the afterworld - this collection is composed of masterpieces of fantasy. Written at various dates before World War I, these 12 stories contain themes that were to re-emerge in E.M. Forster's later work, in particular the attempt to escape from the "respectable claim of reality". "The Machine Stops" is an Orwellian reaction to the earlier heavens of H.G. Wells; "The Road From Colonus" sees the victory of a tedious family over an old man's vision; and "The Celestial Omnibus" has innocence triumping over experience. Above all, Forster demonstrates his belief in freedom, self realization and a spiritual honesty that may be used to defeat the lies of repression. Includes the following twelve short stories The Story of a Panic The Other Side of the Hedge The Celestial Omnibus Other Kingdom The Curate's Friend The Road from Colonus The Machine Stops The Point of It Mr. Andrews Co-ordination The Story of the Siren The Eternal Moment morehide

The Last Tycoon

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A mysterious woman stands and smiles at Monroe Stahr, the last of the great Hollywood princes. Enchanted by one another, they begin a passionate but hopeless love affair.

Silas Marner

George Eliot

Silas Marner is a story of loss, alienation, and redemption that combines elements of fairy tale and myth with realism and humor. Set in the fictional village of Raveloe, it centers on Silas Marner, a weaver who is forced to leave his hometown in the north after being falsely accused of theft by members of his chapel. His religious faith gone, for fifteen years Marner isolates himself from the life of the village and becomes a miser. But when the gold that he cherishes is stolen, and he adopts a child whose mother has just died, his life changes dramatically for the better. morehide

The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot

The Mill on the Floss essentially narrates the history of a tragic relationship between Maggie Tulliver and her brother, Tom, whose childhood closeness is progressively fractured by the pressures and demands of life. These pressures and demands are t hrust to the fore with the loss of their father's mill to his rival, the lawyer Wakem, and the fall of the Tullivers from social respectability. morehide