Friday, January 18, 2019
Manga Classics
Jane Eyre is a classic by Charlotte Bronte about a young girl who does not give up on life.
Romeo and Juliet a tragedy by Shakespeare's famous tragic love story
Edgar Allen Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories both mystery and the macabre. He is considered the inventor of detective fiction. This book is a great treat to a fan of his works.
The classic story of an innocent man wrongly convicted and deliberately imprisoned. He brilliantly builds a strategy and plan for revenge against those who betrayed him. Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Victor Hugo's Les Miserables is a beautiful and sad story. The story has many central figures. Jean ValJean, Inspector Javert, Fantine, Cosette and Marius. Set in the french revolution.
If you know anyone who is a fan of the movie musical (you know the one I mean) or the stage musical or just the book itself. This is a wonderful gift idea. Beautifuly told and Illustrated this is a great book.
Set in Seventeenth Century Boston a Puritan settlement. A young woman is released from the town prison with her baby a scarlet letter A on her dress.
This is the story of an English orphan named Pip who rises to wealth and becomes humbled by his own arrogance. An amazing tale by Charles Dickens.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn features the story of a young boy, chafed by the "sivilized" restrictions of his foster home, and weary of his drunkard father's brutality. To escape, 14 year-old Huck Finn fakes his own death and sets off on a raft down the Mississippi River.
In a remote English village, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, a not-so-well-to do country squire and his wife, must marry off their five vivacious daughters.
A wonderful comedy by Jane Austen. Emma Woodhouse, is a wealthy, pretty, selfsatisfied young woman who indulges herself with meddelsome and unsuccessful attempts at matchmaking with comedic results.
This is the story of Elanore and Marianne Dashwood sisters who represent the title. With thier family theymove to a cottage in Devonshire after thier father passes.
A Beatutifuly done manga of the scottish play. A brave scottish general recieves a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become king of scotland. Consumed by this ambtion and driven by his wife to take charge and make it happen.
A romantic comedy set in Athens Greece. I cannot wait to get this myself being a fan of Shakespeare. It is a fantasy about four lovers bewitched by fairies. The story is filled wit jealous and marriage and love.
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