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The Victorian Collection

In the first thirty years of Victoria's reign, reform established the basis of democratic government, the agrarian and industrial revolutions meant the poor became poorer, the middle class flourished and the aristocracy began to fade. The latter part of the century saw the adverse effects of this growth and success - self satisfaction, belief in the superiority of the British leading to a jingoistic foreign policy and much resting on laurels. It was an incredible period of transistion, investigated, revealed and ultimately attacked by writers, the like of which we shall never see again.

Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Sketches by Boz
by Charles Dickens 		from £25.99
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. ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Mr Wray's Cash-box
by Wilkie Collins 		from £13.49
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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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Prisoner of Zenda
by Anthony Hope 		from £18.49
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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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Princess and the Goblin
by George MacDonald 		from £15.99
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. Overflowing with fantastic ideas and images to delight the young and allegory to inspire ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
by Robert L. Stevenson 		from £11.99
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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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Under The Greenwood Tree
by Thomas Hardy 		from £18.49
A wonderfully evocative tale of the courtship of Fancy Day, newly arrived schoolmistress, by Dick Dewy, carrier of goods, during the four seasons of one year in Wessex. Most of Hardys’ work had tragedy woven into the narrative but ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’ is full of whimsy and good humour. ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Love and Mr Lewisham
by H.G. Wells 		from £22.99
Love and Mr Lewisham is a hugely uplifting tale from the pen of one of our greatest writers. Wells drew on his own experience as a young teacher to provide the background and, one suspects, the emotional drama. The plot enables him to satirise the educational establishment and deliver many wry obs ... more on this title.
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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 The Semi Attached Couple
by Emily Eden 		from £19.99
Emily Eden was the daughter of the 1st Baron Auckland, a close confidant of Pitt. She was thus well placed to observe the manners and mores of nineteenth century aristocracy. A huge admirer of Jane Austen, her works reflect this in their perception, tongue in cheek humour and benevolence toward the victims of her pen. ... 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 Greyfriars Bobby
by Eleanor Atkinson 		from £17.99
Bobby, a sparky silver haired Skye terrier, adopts Auld Jock, a worn out simple shepherd, as his master. Jock is 'let go' by the farmer and dies in poverty having suffered one winter too many. The farmer tries to reclaim Bobby as a pet for his daughter but the dog owes allegiance only to Auld Jock, guarding his grave in Gre ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Mysterious and Macabre
by Various Authors 		from £14.99
Open a Pandora's box of scary tales guaranteed to give you a shiver down the spine. Remember, if you listen late at night, check under the bed before retiring! From the pens of various authors, the stories in this collection are: 'THE MEZZOTINT' by M.R. James 'THE ALUMINIUM DAGGER' by ... 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 The Invisible Man
by H.G. Wells 		from £14.99
H.G. Wells’ premise has been the source for many screenplays, scripts and a springboard for many fantastical ideas. However, the importance of the Invisible Man is not in its central conceit, it lies within its theme - the effect on mankind of the pursuit of science. Griffin’s paranoia and the murder of his fellow beings to ... 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 The Woman Who Did
by Grant Allen 		from £14.99
‘The Woman Who Did’ written in 1893, wholly and solely to satisfy the author’s conscience was perhaps the most controversial book of the late 19th Century. Certainly, it was a success de scandale and a commercial triumph. The heroine, Herminia Barton, chooses to live unmarried with her lover. When he dies, she endures many ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Cousin Phillis
by Elizabeth Gaskell 		from £11.99
The tale of a rural habitation in the late 19th Century and the effect of industrialisation on the local community. Seventeen year old Phillis lives on Hope Farm with her parents Minister Ebenezer Holman and his simple wife. Her second cousin Paul Manning, at first reluctantly, comes to visit. He is the son of ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
by Jerome K. Jerome 		from £19.99
The aptly titled sequel to "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow" which is also recorded by Assembled Stories and proved immensely popular. In this succeeding outburst of whimsy Jerome reflects on a variety of subjects such as 'the art of making up one's mind', 'the care and management of women' and 'the minding of ot ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Uncle Silas
by J.S. Le Fanu 		from £24.99
When rich recluse Austin Ruthyn dies from a heart attack, Maud, his daughter is made a ward to the sinister Uncle Silas. Silas is already suspected of the grisly murder of a creditor several years earlier but has never been tried for the crime. Should Maud die before she reaches her majority, Silas will inherit the family f ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Sir Harry Hotspur
by Anthony Trollope 		from £19.99
A man of conscience, duty and tradition, an immature, impressionable girl of supreme virtue and perhaps the greatest cad in English Literature are the chief protagonists of this tale. Tragedy falls upon the House of Humblethwaite. Sir Harry Hotspur's son dies at 21 years of age. There is no other male heir save a s ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Erewhon
by Samuel Butler 		from £19.99
Not only is 'Erewhon' an adventure story but also Butler's satirical inversion of English customs and philosophy in the 19th century. The explorer Higgs discovers a well organised and civilised country - apparently idyllic. However, the body politic has two ruling obsessions, disease is considered a crime and machinery is s ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Kidnapped
by Robert L. Stevenson 		from £17.99
I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father's house". So begins one of the greatest tales in literature, an account of David Balfour's trials and tribulations as he falls foul of his mise ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Harry Heathcote of Gangoil
by Anthony Trollope 		from £11.99
"He was too imperious, too masterful, too much inclined to think that all things should be made to go as he would have them." Thus Trollope describes his hero Harry Heathcote, a settler and sheep farmer in the untamed bush of Australia in 1871. However, Harry has made enemies. In seeking always to act in the honourable fash ... 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 The Semi-Detached House
by Emily Eden 		from £14.99
The house is called "Pleasance" and is rented by two sisters, Blanche and Aileen. The story revolves around the fortunes of two neighbouring families of varied social standing. The sisters' semi-detachment is to the Hopkinsons. Whilst Blanche's husband, Arthur, is abroad on a mission, the neighbours soon prove themselves in ... 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 Rebels and Romantics
by 19th Century Verse 		from £8.99
This collection contains not only the works of celebrated poets of the 19th Century but also others whose names have nearly passed into obscurity. Their poetry exemplifies the richness of literature in America and Britain at the time. Many of these writers were rebels and their rebellion was not just in their verse forms bu ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Diary of a Pilgrimage
by Jerome K. Jerome 		from £11.99
"This is a sensible book. I want you to understand that. This is a book to improve your mind. In this book, I tell you all about Germany – at all events all I know about Germany – and the Ober-Ammergau Passion Play. I also tell you about other things. I do not tell you all I know about all these other things because I do no ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Coral Island
by R. M. Ballantyne 		from £22.99
Heroes Ralph, Jack and Peterkin set sail on the Arrow and are the only three survivors of a fearful shipwreck. They are washed ashore on a seemingly idyllic coral island. This tranquillity is violently disturbed, first by a tribe of bloodthirsty cannibals and then by the invasion of a vicious pirate and his gan ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Frozen Deep
by Wilkie Collins 		from £11.99
Richard Wardour leaves England on a voyage to the African coast under the impression he is engaged to delicate orphan Clara Burnham. Despite sending him a letter stating the contrary Clara is anxious for her honour. She is aware that he may not have received the missive and is now betrothed to another, Frank Aldersley. ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Sowers
by H.S. Merriman 		from £24.99
A romantic adventure yarn of plotting and corruption largely set against the panorama of Imperialist Russia but with some of the skulduggery taking place in the major capitals of Europe. An old Etonian and half Russian, Prince Paul Alexis, inherits the Osterno estate in the Steppes. Naive and honest, but helped b ... 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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