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10 hours ago · Great Expectations at Wikisource. Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a Bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story). It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.
- Charles Dickens
- 544 (first edition 1861)
- 1860
- Novel, Bildungsroman
2 hours ago · Harinder Sikka's new novel, "Gobind," explores human emotion and resilience. Set in Bihar's poverty, it narrates the tale of Gobind, a young man who overcomes hardship to join the Indian Navy. Amidst his heroic deeds, he finds himself torn between duty and desire for a woman he meets in Russia. The book, published by Penguin, delves into themes of love, loyalty, and redemption.
I grew up really liking books like Fever 1793 and Chains. I didn't really really care for series or books that focused too much on following the character's entire life story though. Dear America, American Girl, Little House, all of these felt like the emphasis was too much on the character and making up stories about them, rather than telling a story that characters happened t
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10 hours ago · 1 post published by Davida Chazan on May 12, 2024. The Chocolate Lady's Book Review Blog. For mostly adult, literary, fiction; focusing on historical, contemporary, biographical, and women.
10 hours ago · A Year of Broken Promises is historical fiction and continues the story of James and Mary McGrother, a young Irish fisherman and his wife, who were the main characters in book 1: A Pocket Full of Shells. Even with the famine years behind them, tragedy and hardship does not stop.
10 hours ago · My Heart For Hostage (Annotated) ($0.99) by Robert Hillyer: Pulitzer-winning poet Robert Hillyer's overlooked 1942 novel set in Paris 1919. A young officer falls in love with a French girl and tries to convince her to marry him. A "superbly written book, written perhaps as only a poet with & expert in the discipline of
