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Sketches by Boz
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Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens’ started his literary career as a journalist reporting for ‘The Morning Chronicle,’ a profession which encouraged his observing eye. This collection of essays and short stories was first published in that journal and anticipates, and frequently demonstrates, the genius that was to come.
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Mr Wray's Cash-box
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Wilkie Collins
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Mr. Reuben Wray, a retired actor who has had little public success, flees Stratford-upon-Avon fearing pursuit by the police.
He arrives in Tidbury in the Marsh and sets up shop teaching elocution. Two local villains notice he carries a rather large cash box and attempt to steal the contents. When ... more on this title.
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The Prisoner of Zenda
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Anthony Hope
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The hugely successful romantic adventure story which continues to thrill a century after it was written. It has all the classic ingredients - a twisting plot of betrayal and deception, love interest, great swashbuckling action and a most beguiling villain in Rupert of Hentzau, who captured the publics imaginat ... more on this title.
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The Princess and the Goblin
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George MacDonald
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Revolutionary for the time in encouraging children to think like children, the adventure of Princess Irene and Curdie, the boy miner, was to influence generations of writers, including Chesterton and Tolkien.
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Robert L. Stevenson
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Dr Jekyll creates a potion whereby he can divide the good and evil parts of his personality and thus free the good side to work for the benefit of mankind without the distraction of his baser instincts. Unfortunately, he undertakes the experiment while the depraved side of his nature is in the ascendancy and t ... more on this title.
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The Secret Agent
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Joseph Conrad
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Inspired by an actual terrorist attack on Greenwich Laboratory in 1894 ‘The Secret Agent’ is arguably Conrad’s greatest work. The subtitle ‘A Simple Tale’ is deliberately ironic although the story is indeed more accessible than most of the author’s other writing and despite one time shift, which adds to the su ... more on this title.
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Greenmantle
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John Buchan
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The second of Richard Hannays’ adventures takes him from the trenches of the First World War on a mission of vital importance to the British campaign in the East. In an attempt to manipulate their Turkish allies the Germans have created a religious figurehead, a prophet of a new order to unify the disparate tr ... more on this title.
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The Europeans
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Henry James
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One of Henry James’ main themes was the interaction between the Old World and the New. Restless Baroness Eugenia Munster and her charming bohemian brother Felix are visiting their American cousins in Boston, New England. The effect these two extravagant characters have on their austere Puritan relations forms ... more on this title.
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John Halifax, Gentleman
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Dinah Craik
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The greatest romantic narrative novel of the early 19th Century, John Halifax, Gentleman, tells the story of an orphan boy whose first words in the story are “Sir, I want work; may I earn a penny.” By hard work, diligent study and an unshakeable faith in his God John attains wealth and happiness, despite much ... more on this title.
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Sorrell and Son
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Warwick Deeping
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Captain Stephen Sorrell returns from the First World War decorated with the Military Cross but unnerved by the conflict. His mercenary wife has deserted him for ‘one of the fellows who stayed behind’ and left him responsible for their son Christopher.
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Riceyman Steps
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Arnold Bennett
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It’s 1919 shortly after the termination of the 1st European holocaust. Henry Earlforward, a middle aged North London Bookseller, courts and marries Violet Arb, a widow who has inherited the confectioners shop opposite his own premises in Riceyman Square. Henry and Violet engage the services of Elsie as ‘char ... more on this title.
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Two on a Tower
by Thomas Hardy
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Dr Wortle's School
by Anthony Trollope
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A Child of the Jago
by Arthur Morrison
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Trilby
by George Du Maurier
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Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
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Moonfleet
by J. Meade Falkner
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Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
by Jerome K. Jerome
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Anna of the Five Towns
by Arnold Bennett
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The Card
by Arnold Bennett
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The Autobiography of a Supertramp
by W. H. Davies
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Between Rounds
by O. Henry
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Washington Square
by Henry James
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