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Sparkling conversation and romantic intrigue in beautiful surroundings were the essential ingredients of a successful house-party, and the guests who ... More

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Adopted into the household of her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, Fanny Price grows up a meek outsider among her cousins in the unaccustomed elegance of ... More

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The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest "Sensation Novel." Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white ... More

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In this novel, Eliot set out to come to terms with the English Jews, a society-within-a-society which her contemporaries seemed to be either ... More

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Against a brilliantly observed background of life in the Staffordshire Potteries, "Anna Of The Five Towns" is both a novel about a gossipy, myopic, ... More

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Beautiful young Evelina falls victim to the rakish advances of Sir Clement Willoughby on her entrance to the world of fashionable London. Colliding ... More

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In this wickedly astute portrait of the intersecting worlds of aristocrats and actors, the author establishes himself as an irresistible storyteller ... More

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Elizabeth Wilhide's debut novel "Ashenden" traces the history of an English house across two and a half centuries. When Charlie and Ros inherit ... More

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Jacob Flanders first appears as a child playing by the seaside. The novel follows his progress to school, to Cambridge, to London, Paris, Italy, ... More

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In this witty comedy of early Victorian life in a country town, author Elizabeth Gaskell describes the uneventful lives of the lady-like inhabitants ... More

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"Possession" is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of ... More

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Not too long after George, 6th Viscount Uffenham, hit upon the brilliant idea of stashing away the family fortune in diamonds, he forgot where he had ... More

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"The Old Wives' Tale" (1908) celebrates the romance of even the most ordinary lives in the course of tracing the passage of time over three ... More

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Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and the escape it may bring from the small community of Egdon Heath. Hearing ... More

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A complex case for the Wooster intellect. Gussie Fink-Nottle falls in love with Madeline Bassett and has lost his chump. Cousin Angela falls out of ... More

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This story is set at the time of the Napoleonic wars when the South coast was busy with preparations for the threat of invasion. It tells of the ... More

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Rickie Elliot, orphaned at the age of 15, finds his spiritual home at Cambridge and friendship in Ansell, the cerebral son of a grocer. Yet after ... More

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This is a tragic tale of unconsummated passion and rivalry in love. A stonemason working on a church falls in love and elopes with the vicar's ... More

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Mr. Pooter is a Nobody whose life, dilemmas, and social crises are never more than petty but who chronicles it all with an astounding narcissistic ... More

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Writing at the very moment when the foundations of Western thought were being challenged and undermined, George Eliot fashions in Middlemarch (1871-2 ... More

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"Bleak House" (1853) is one of Dickens' most ambitious works and established his reputation as a mature novelist capable of writing about the most ... More

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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) wanted his last novel 'to deal unaffectedly with the fret and fever, derision and disaster, that may press in the wake of ... More

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Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living ... More

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In Howards End Forster voiced many of his apprehensions about the future, and the novel has become more relevant than ever as a statement of humane, ... More

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