Classics

Try these books if you're looking for:

• Classics
• International setting
• Fiction

Middlemarch
By George Eliot
F ELIOT
This Victorian-era classic represents the ambiguities of moral choice. Set in a provincial Victorian neighborhood, the author explores the complex social relationships and the struggle to hold fast to personal integrity in a materialistic environment.

Master and Commander
By Patrick O’Brien
F O’BRIEN
In this historical fiction account the characters are sharply defined and the story is well-crafted. Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin fight in the Napoleonic Wars.

Tess of the D’Urbervilles
By Thomas Hardy
F HARDY
This classic 19th Century British novel tells of agonizing moral choices. The son in the family for which Tess Durbeyfield works assaults her, and she has a child who dies in infancy, but her husband is unforgiving.