Ellen Raskin
The turfcutter's donkey
Patricia Lynch
The Count of Monte Cristo
Some days you battle yourself and other monsters. Some days you just make soup.
Alexandre Dumas (père)
The passage (1930, Australian)
Vance Palmer
He Knew He Was Right
Some days you battle yourself and other monsters. Some days you just make soup.
Anthony Trollope
Looking for Alibrandi
Melina Marchetta
I Remember Nothing More
Some days you battle yourself and other monsters. Some days you just make soup.
Adina Blady Szwajger
The Agincourt bride
Joanna Hickson
The Man Who Was Thursday
Some days you battle yourself and other monsters. Some days you just make soup.
G. K. Chesterton
The Prisoner of Zenda
Anthony Hope
Do Butlers Burgle Banks?
We have hands that fashion and heads that know,
But our hearts we lost - how long ago! -- G. K. Chesterton
P.G.Wodehouse
The timeless land
Eleanor Dark
The Happy Hollisters at Circus Island
Some days you battle yourself and other monsters. Some days you just make soup.
Jerry West/Andrew E. Svenson (Haven't read that series in forever!)
Evelina: Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
(I didn't know you'd read it! It's simple, but kind of fun. )
Fanny Burney
Dombey and Son
Some days you battle yourself and other monsters. Some days you just make soup.
Charles Dickens
Remember me to Harold Square