Comic novels

7 books

A Room with a ViewE. M. Forster · 1908A 1908 novel by E. M. Forster following Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman traveling in Florence with her cousin, whose encounter with unconventional fellow guests at their pension begins to unsettle her sheltered life and ideas about propriety.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Bird of ParadiseAda Leverson · 1914A 1914 comic novel by Ada Leverson following witty, charming Bertha Kellynch as she studies the character of Rupert Denison, the cultured young man her friend Madeline hopes to marry, amid Edwardian courtship, social visits, and marital intrigue.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Boy with WingsBerta Ruck · 1916A 1916 romance novel by Berta Ruck about a young Welsh typist in London who falls for an aviator she sees at a flying exhibition, set in the months just before the outbreak of World War I.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Creators: A ComedyMay Sinclair · 1910A 1910 novel by May Sinclair, The Creators: A Comedy follows novelist George Tanqueray and Jane Holland, a woman writer whose rising celebrity tests their artistic ideals, independence, and changing relationship.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Enchanted AprilElizabeth Von Arnim · 1922A 1922 comic novel in which two unhappy London women, reading the same newspaper advertisement for a small medieval Italian castle to let for April, consider renting it together for a month of sunshine and escape from their dreary lives.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The golden journey of Mr. ParadyneWilliam John Locke · 1924A 1924 novel by William John Locke about Cosmo Paradyne, a successful London barrister, who wakes up in a gipsy caravan in the French countryside with no idea how he got there, and must puzzle out where he is and what he is doing.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Twelfth HourAda Leverson · 1907A 1907 comic novel by Ada Leverson following the witty teenage Savile, his charming married sister Felicity, and their circle of fashionable Edwardian society figures through parties, matchmaking schemes, and romantic entanglements in London high society.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية