Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Fiction, Classics, Literary, (Hardcover)

from baswood

[Ann Veronica] by H G Wells subtitled a modern love story A grown up story about a young lady growing up in early 20th Century Edwardian England. When Ann veronica was published in 1909; Suffragette militancy had been a fact of life for the last five years, the first world war was still five year...

from cdeuker

Not quite as good as the History of Mr. Polly, but nevertheless well worth reading. I think of it as D.H. Lawrence light, not entirely a bad thing. Ann Veronica is looking for life with a capital L and is living in a world that offers women life with a decidedly lower case l. She rebels against h...

from

This was quite a surprising novel coming from H.G Wells, as much as it was enjoyable. You really feel the plight, and unfair treatment, of Ann Veronica throughout the story and she becomes someone to root for. The story-line, characters, and setting were all very well done and I felt like this wa...

from john257hopper

An unusual H G Wells novel, being written from the point of view of a woman. The first two thirds of the story are about Ann Veronica's struggle to assert her independence, personal, sexual and political, from her father and aunt and their milieu; the last third are more of a conventional love st...

from AMcBurnie

I'd only read HG Wells' science-fiction, which all reek of their era, so this book was a surprise because it was published in 1909 but feels modern: the suffragettes, socialists and other trendy radicals that the heroine Anne Veronica gets involved with seem straight out of the late sixties/early...