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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 The Professor
by Charlotte Bronte 		from £22.99
William Crimsworth escapes the brutal employment of his brother in a Yorkshire mill town, changes profession and takes a position as tutor in a boys' school in Brussels. The authoress is unusually frank, for the time, in her scrutiny of the relationship between the teacher and the domineering headmistress of th ... 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 The Hole In the Wall
by Arthur Morrison 		from £17.99
Arthur Morrison grew up in the East End of London and was familiar with life on the dockside. He tells the story of ‘The Hole in the Wall’ through the eyes of young Stephen Kemp, taken to live with his grandfather after the death of his mother. Nat Kemp is determined to keep his grandson apart from the seamier side of the D ... 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 Unbearable Bassington
by Saki 		from £14.99
Widow Francesca Bassington is deeply concerned. Her son, Comus, has finished his schooldays without benefit. He is now footloose and fancy free among the Edwardian social scene of London, showing no signs of responsibility or willingness to undertake a sensible career. To add to this distress Francesca has a ho ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Beloved Vagabond
by W.J. Locke 		from £24.99
"To Paragot I owe everything. He is at once my benefactor, my venerated master, my beloved friend, my creator." Thus begins the story of one of the greatest characters of English Literature - Paragot the lovable Bohemian and celebrated Bon Vivant. A young urchin from the London slums is adopted by ... more on this title.
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