5 books Classics Fiction romance famous authors all 5 $25,

A ROOM WITH A VIEW BY E M FORSTER, 1908, 256 PAGES Edwardian Lucy “comes of age” educated in upper middle class social behaviour and norms - literature, art, architecture, history, music (pianist) religion – but has a stubborn streak, wishes for independence, equality, truth, passion. To finish her “education” she travels to Italy with her chaperon but cannot avoid the conflict between reality and training. She interacts with several characters who represent various social levels and ethics. They create emotional challenges with her own personality and social role. The resolution of these conflicts does not appear until the end when she decides if she loves herself or to love herself more with someone else. WOMEN IN LOVE BY D H LAWRENCE, 1920, 596 PAGES Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen are sisters both are teachers in Beldover, a coal mining town in the industrialization period. Ursula is older, considers marriage a trap, and worries about her role as a woman. She will fall in love with Rupert Burkin. Gudrun is an artist, filled with independent passion and conflicting with the social concept of a woman’s role. She will run away with Gerald Critch. Rupert is a school inspector, often ill, with strongly held ideas, and is wise, logical and passionate. Gerald is the son of the mine owner, happy in his superior position and its culture. During the clash of everyone’s beliefs, wishes, realities and feelings of love that are strange, passionate and unacceptable, relationships become destructive but may yet hopefully survive. WUTHERING HEIGHTS BY EMILY BRONTE, 1847, 367 PAGES A frightening story behind Victorian appearances showing deaths, love that fails, personality disorders, hatred, despair, ending with a potential marriage for love. At least 8 major players to track as they clash and succumb to intense emotional destruction triggered by failed love. Not surprisingly is at least 10 films are based on this book. Not a normal love story. GONE WITH THE WIND BY MARGARET MITCHELL, 1936, 1022 PAGES Well written, easy to understand, emotions described within the background make the book come to life. The Yankee soldiers were overtaking the plantations, Confederate cities were ransacked, Atlanta was burning, people were dying, and the southern culture was ending. Scarlette O’Hara’s life must change to survive. Southern Belles lost privileges, entered poverty and survival meant labour. Love would have to wait to survive. Forced into this new life Scarlette tackled the new life aggressively and successfully using the qualities she had admired but which her society decided she should hide – boldness, determination, creation, leadership - marry for money and work hard. In the process she would have 4 husbands and few dead children. In the end she realized that all this success was not the happiness she struggled for, it was the love of her last husband that she wanted and her last words were to get him back. THE STONE ANGEL BY MARGARET LAURENCE, 308 PAGES Hagar at 90 is dying in a nursing home and rethinks her past, the pain and suffering she felt, running away, marriage and love and sex, children dying, powering through life stubbornly believing her view was right, fighting for rights and advantages, pain, missing love –unable to accept, feel and even recognize love. There was love she realized now. She died as she learned that love was what she wanted. The rest wasn’t. Condition: All the books are readable. The first four are in very good condition – clean, free of marks, fully bound, no damage, folded pages, clear printing, full covers, The fifth (stone angel) has a very worn cover and some writing on the front inside cover plus the first leaf and underlining on a few pages– otherwise it would be in good condition, tightly bound, all pages intact and clear for easy reading. Please provide telephone number with reply Toronto address, Finch Ave and Yonge St area, near Finch subway station.