1. ​Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
2. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
3. Middlemarch by George Eliot
4. Persuasion by Jane Austen
5. The Death of the Heart by Eilzabeth Bowen
6. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
8. The Professor’s House by Willa Cather
9. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
10. Ulysses by James Joyce

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About:
Dame Hermione Lee, DBE, FBA, FRSL is a British biographer, literary critic and academic. She is a former President of Wolfson College, Oxford, and a former Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature in the University of Oxford and professorial fellow of New College. Wikipedia
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• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/goodlife/11730750/My-favourite-books-Hermione-Lee-and-Jeanette-Winterson.html

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