To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Website | Goodreads | Twitter | Facebook
Publication Date: October 1st 1986 (first published 1860)
Publisher: Arrow
ISBN:  0099419785
Age Group: Young Adult/ Adult
Genre: Classic
Source: Bookshelf
Lootability: ****

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.
Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature

Website | Goodreads | Twitter | Facebook
Publication Date: Originally published 1847
Publisher: Norton and Company
ISBN:  0393978893
Age Group: Adult
Genre: Classic/Gothic/Supernatural
Source: Bookshelf
Lootability: *****

It's Classics Month at Raiding Bookshelves!

Well, it's classics month at Raiding Bookshelves and I'll be starting with one of my all time favourites: Emily Bronte's ground breaking gothic novel Wuthering Heights.

You can also expect to see Harper Lee's celebrated novel To Kill A Mockingbird.

Also, to celebrate Jane Austen week (dates to be confirmed) I will be doing Seven days of Austen. A review a day!

I haven't chosen a fourth novel yet, but this will be something I have never read before. I'm wavering between The Great Gatsby and Catcher in the Rye.

Meanwhile, don't forget to enter my Shadowfell giveaway!