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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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When her family becomes impoverished after a disastrous financial speculation, Agnes Grey determines to find work as a governess. This is a personal ... More

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Paula Power, a vacillating young woman, is torn between her infatuation with Captain de Stancy, a wealthy railway contractor, and her love for George ... 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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Kept in the Dark is one of his novels in which Trollope is closest to his admired Thackeray, a sharp comedy of manners, specifically late-Victorian ... More

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Wuthering Heights is a house on the lonely moors of Yorkshire. Here a tragic love story unfolds as Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliffe fall in love, ... 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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Hardy's The Withered Arm is a gothic tale of suspense and coincidence, and witchcraft. Hardy recalled a time when "there was still living an old ... 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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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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Mrs Bennet wants all of her five daughters to marry and to marry well. When two rich young men come to the village, Mrs Bennet is sure that they will ... More

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In "David Copperfield" (1849), once again, issues of class and the differences between public and private standards (represented in the corruption of ... More

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Set in the lavish English court of Jane Austen's time, this previously unpublished work by a 17-year-old Louisa May Alcott tells the story of Edith ... More

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This account of love's vicissitudes begins as a comedy of misunderstanding, then slowly darkens and deepens, drawing the reader into the quagmires of ... More

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Harold Pinter's first and only novel, written in the early 1950s before he began writing plays. The novel is set in post-war London's East End, a ... More

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Ernest Pontifex, son of a bullying clergyman, leads a life of disarray. Ernest struggles with orthodoxy, lives in the slums, is thrown into prison, ... More

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For the first time, Sons and Lovers appears in paperback in its complete form, including the restoration of 80 passages missing from previous ... 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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Tullivers, the former home of old Admiral Trigg and his sister Lucy, had stood empty for many months. Then, one bright April day, two newcomers move ... More

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Masterwork of the genre features detective Philip Trent in a case involving the murder of an American financier. "One of the few genuine classics of ... More

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Emma Woodhouse is clever, beautiful and rich, and loves matchmaking between her friends and neighbours in the village of Highbury. Unfortunately, she ... More

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