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Books : Fiction : By Period : 16th to 18th Century

• Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Popular Classics)

  Daniel Defoe

  
  
   

• Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Popular Classics)

  Jonathan Swift

  
  
   

• Don Quixote (Wordsworth Classics)

  Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

  
  
   

• Monkey (Penguin Classics)

  Wu Ch'eng-En

  
  
   

• The Pilgrim's Progress (Oxford World's Classics)

  John Bunyan

  
  
   

• Faust - A Tragedy In Two Parts & The Urfaust (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature): A Tradegy in Two Parts and the Urfaust (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  
  
   

• Moll Flanders (Oxford World's Classics)

  Daniel Defoe

  
  
   

• Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded (Oxford World's Classics)

  Samuel Richardson

  
  
   

• Don Quixote

  Miguel de Cervantes

  
  
   

• Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded: Or, Virtue Rewarded (Penguin English Library)

  Samuel Richardson

  
  
   

• Fanny Hill: Or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Penguin Popular Classics)

  John Cleland

  
  
   

• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (Penguin Classics)

  Laurence Sterne

  
  
   

• Tom Jones (Wordsworth Classics)

  Henry Fielding

  
  
   

• Moll Flanders

  Daniel Defoe

  
  
   

• The Sorrows of Young Werther (Classics)

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  
  
   

• Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics)

  Daniel Defoe

  
  
   

• The Blood of Flowers

  Anita Amirrezvani

  
  Word-of-mouth is often a reliable guide to the interest of a novel, and in the case of Anita Amirrezvani's The Blood of Flowers, the considerable preliminary excitement was fully justified. This is a vivid and atmospheric picture of Iran: the way in which the people live, the sunbaked scenery and the architecture. But most of all, this is the involving story of a young girl's journey from a state of innocence to that of sober adulthood. Amidst the colour and excitement of the bazaars of Isfahan, a spirited young village girl is approaching the age when it is expected that she will marry. But suddenly her life is thrown into turmoil at the same time as a luminous comet blazes across the sky. After the death of her much-loved father, the young woman and her inconsolable mother find themselves obliged to cope with a challenging new life in the busy city of Isfahan. They are taken in as house servants by an uncle, a wealthy carpet designer, and his unsympathetic wife. Although life is difficult, Amirrezvani's protagonist quickly shows her skills as a maker of carpets, and under her uncle's watchful eye, life begins to look positive again. But then an ill-considered action results in the heroine's fall from grace, and she is forced into a grim secret marriage.

  The narrative here is couched in prose by Anita Amirrezvani that positively glows on the page, and the characterisation is similarly acute, notably of the wonderfully drawn heroine. As a journey into a society that will be alien to most readers, this is a remarkable achievement. --Barry Forshaw

  
   

• Pride and Prejudice

  Jane Austen

  
  
   

• Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded (Oxford World's Classics)

  Samuel Richardson

  
  
   

• Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)

  Jonathan Swift