The Return Of The Native
The fiery Eustacia Vye, wishing only for passionate love, believes that her escape from Egdon lies in her marriage to Clym Yeobright, the returning "native," home from Paris and discontented with his work there.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1040
subjects: pastoral fiction, didactic fiction [X], england, wessex (england), hardy, thomas, fiction, domestic relations, romance, great britain, heathlands, mate selection, adultery, mother-son relationship, mothers and sons, native americans, married people, country life, people with visual disabilities, marriage
Bleak House
Opening in the swirling mists of London, the novel revolves around a court case that has dragged on for decades?the infamous Jarndyce and Jarndyce lawsuit, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1180
subjects: illegitimate children, guardian and ward, young women, illegitimacy, london (england), england, guardian-ward relationship, inheritance and succession, bildungsromans, mystery fiction, social problems, didactic fiction [X], trusts and trustees, domestic fiction, didactic fiction
The Picture Of Dorian Gray
An adaptatioan of Oscar Wilde's story in which an incredibly handsome young man in Victorian England retains his youthful appearance over the years while his portrait reflects both his age and evil soul as he pursues a life of decadence and corruption.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: future life, soul, portraits, didactic fiction [X], conduct of life, supernatural, london (england), great britain
Tess Of The D'urbervilles
Presents Thomas Hardy's novel about a young woman who attempts to restore her family's fortunes, is seduced by a heartless aristocrat, and is punished by society's double standards when she gets a chance at real love; and includes an introduction and explanatory notes.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 69
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1160
subjects: hardy, thomas, triangles (interpersonal relations), man-woman relationships, children of the rich, children of clergy, women domestics, wessex (england), young women, england, didactic fiction [X], women household employees, social classes, pastoral fiction, women murderers, country life, pastoral fiction, didactic fiction, historical fiction, electronic books