1877

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Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy, tradotto da Constance Garnett English
Tolstoy follows Anna's affair and Levin's awkward farming life in parallel, and somehow the mowing scenes stay with you as long as the tragedy does. It's long and unhurried, but you come out knowing these people better than some of your actual relatives.
Black Beauty Anna Sewell English
A horse telling his own life story sounds twee until you're in it, and then Ginger's chapters quietly break your heart. It's gentle and a bit episodic, and yes, you'll cry, but you come out kinder to every tired creature you pass.
The American Senator Anthony Trollope English
You get Trollope’s dry social comedy at its most pointed, with Elias Gotobed delivering blunt American verdicts on English aristocracy and fox-hunting society while Arabella Trefoil treats courtship as strategy. It’s sprawling and occasionally slow, but rewarding if you enjoy watching manners, money, and marriage expose people.
The Child of the Cavern Jules Verne, tradotto da Vincent Parke and Company English
You’re here for Jules Verne’s fascination with machinery, mines, and whole communities hidden underground, with engineer James Starr and the mysterious Nell giving the adventure some human warmth. The suspense is old-fashioned and occasionally creaky, but the coal-lit setting stays wonderfully strange.

filtra ordina genere epoca

Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy, tradotto da Constance Garnett English
Tolstoy follows Anna's affair and Levin's awkward farming life in parallel, and somehow the mowing scenes stay with you as long as the tragedy does. It's long and unhurried, but you come out knowing these people better than some of your actual relatives.
Black Beauty Anna Sewell English
A horse telling his own life story sounds twee until you're in it, and then Ginger's chapters quietly break your heart. It's gentle and a bit episodic, and yes, you'll cry, but you come out kinder to every tired creature you pass.
The American Senator Anthony Trollope English
You get Trollope’s dry social comedy at its most pointed, with Elias Gotobed delivering blunt American verdicts on English aristocracy and fox-hunting society while Arabella Trefoil treats courtship as strategy. It’s sprawling and occasionally slow, but rewarding if you enjoy watching manners, money, and marriage expose people.
The Child of the Cavern Jules Verne, tradotto da Vincent Parke and Company English
You’re here for Jules Verne’s fascination with machinery, mines, and whole communities hidden underground, with engineer James Starr and the mysterious Nell giving the adventure some human warmth. The suspense is old-fashioned and occasionally creaky, but the coal-lit setting stays wonderfully strange.