"No plainer manifestation of the modernist trend in contemporary English fiction may be found than in Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room"-The New York Times "I have seldom read a cleverer book…it is exquisitely written, but the characters do not vitally survive in the mind because the author has been obsessed by details of originality and cleverness."-Arnold Bennett Virginia Woolf's third novel, Jacob's Room (1922), is a penetrating look at one man's...

<div>Torn between his passion for two women and his abiding attachment to his mother, young Paul Morel struggles with his desire to please everyone &#8213; particularly himself. Lawrence's highly autobiographical novel unfolds against the backdrop of his native Nottinghamshire coal fields, amidst a working-class family dominated by a brutish father and a loving but overbearing mother. Lushly descriptive passages range from celebrations of...

In 18th century England, a foundling of mysterious origin is adopted by a squire and named Tom Jones. He is raised along with the squire's menacing nephew, and falls in love with the daughter of a neighbor. The first of two DVD's.

Grandes esperanzas cuenta la historia de Philip Pip, un niño huérfano que vive con su hermana huraña que lo maltrata, y el esposo de esta, un herrero de nombre Joe Gargery. En una vida sin esperanzas como aprendiz de herrero, Pip sueña con que su destino cambie. Un día es llevado a la casa Satis, la mansión de Miss Havisham, una adinerada loca y misteriosa que lo contrata para que juegue con su nieta, la bella Estella. Lo que Pip no sabe es...

Two of Dicken's novels are republished. The first follows a group from the tranquil roads of London to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror. The second follows the life of the orphaned Pip from the wild Kent marshes through a series of events as he abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman.