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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Two on a Tower
by Thomas Hardy 		from £19.99
Written in 1882, and set in the author's beloved West Country, `Two on a Tower' is one of Hardy's earliest works. This fast moving story combines tragedy, romance and humour in a convoluted tale of human relationships. It also reflects Hardy's interest in the stars and astronomy. Lonely Viviette Constantine awaits the retur ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Dr Wortle's School
by Anthony Trollope 		from £19.99
Dr. Wortle's School is Trollope's most merciless attack on the false moralising and hypocrisy of the Victorian age. When Dr. Wortle, in good faith, hires a couple as teacher and matron at his school, scandal about their marriage is subsequently brought to light. Will the doctor submit to the social pressures brou ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title A Child of the Jago
by Arthur Morrison 		from £14.99
'A Child of the Jago' is both thriller and condemnation of social conditions in the East End slums at the turn of the century. Boy hero Dicky Perrott is at heart full of humane instinct but his environment ensures his down fall. "It was my fate to encounter a place in Shoreditch where children were born and reared in circu ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Trilby
by George Du Maurier 		from £19.99
Full of the author's joie de vivre, this tale revels in the artistic life of 19th Century Paris. Three friends, perfect companions for each other, try to make their way as painters in the Bohemian climate of the left bank of the Seine, but then Little Billee falls in love. The object of his affections is Trilby ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Hard Times
by Charles Dickens 		from £19.99
Set in fictional Coketown in the North of England the `Hard Times' of which Dickens writes are the years of the Industrial Revolution. The story centres on the Gradgrind family. Father Tom is an `eminently practical man' whose emphasis on facts and figures in his family's education suppresses all their sense of ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Moonfleet
by J. Meade Falkner 		from £17.99
A tale of smuggling and mystery on the Dorset coast as told by John Trenchard, a boy obsessed with discovering the secret of Colonel 'Blackbeard' Mohune's hidden treasure. One night, trapped in the Mohune family vault beneath the church, John finds a locket round the Colonel's neck which contains verses from th ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
by Jerome K. Jerome 		from £14.99
Over one hundred years since it was first published ‘Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow’ addresses subjects which are still relevant today – perhaps more so! Being hard up, being in the blues and being in love are just some aspects of the human condition on which Jerome K. Jerome reflects in his unique whimsical fashion. Th ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Anna of the Five Towns
by Arnold Bennett 		from £19.99
Set in stifled industrial Staffordshire in the late nineteenth century against a strong evangelical background "Anna of the Five Towns" tells of the courting of hard businessman Ephraim Tellright's daughter by prosperous and accomplished Henry Mynors. As her father's fortune grows so does Anna's understanding. She realises ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Card
by Arnold Bennett 		from £19.99
Arnold Bennett's splendidly comic portrayal of Edward Henry Machin, known as Denry to his mother to save time, is set in Bursley, one of the author's Five Towns of Staffordshire. Starting in 1897, when Denry first saw the smoke of the potbanks, the tale chronicles his rise to fame and wealth including such events as improvi ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Autobiography of a Supertramp
by W. H. Davies 		from £19.99
At the end of the 19th Century W.H.Davies hustled his way across America, working when he could, begging and stealing when he couldn't. He saw life on the breadline. He was beaten up in New Orleans, thrown into prison in Michigan and was present at lynchings in Tennessee, truly a diarist of the nether side of t ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Between Rounds
by O. Henry 		from £14.99
O.Henry was the greatest short story writer of his day. His characters may be from America at the turn of the century but their foibles and eccentricities are known to us all, irrespective of culture or time. This selection includes such classics as: A Service of Love, Makes The Whole World Kin, Let Me ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Washington Square
by Henry James 		from £17.99
In 'Washington Square' James treats on a subject about which he was passionate - the relationship between parents and their children. Dr Sloper, a wealthy man, is in a difficult position. His son has died aged three years old. His wife also dies within two weeks of giving birth to their surviving daughter Catherine. She is ... more on this title.
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