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  • The Pickwick Papers

    'One of my life's greatest tragedies is to have already read Pickwick Papers - I can't go back and read it for the first time' Fernando PessoaFew first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers - a comic masterpiece that catapulted its twenty-four-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the sportsman Winkle and ... Read more

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  • Ted Hughes, Nature and Culture

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The fourteen contributors to this new collection of essays begin with Ted Hughes’s proposition that ‘every child is nature’s chance to correct culture’s error.’ Established Hughes scholars alongside new voices draw on a range of approaches to explore the intricate relationships between the natural world and cultural environments — political, as well as geographical — which his work unsettles. ... Read more

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    Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens’s story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall, showcases the author’s gift for vivid characterization and unfailingly realistic description. As Jonathan Lethem contends in his Introduction, Dickens’s “genius . . . is at one with the genius of the form of the novel itself: Dickens willed into existence ... Read more

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  • Martin Chuzzlewit (Centaur Classics)

    The greed of his family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and namesake to make his own way in the world. And so young Martin sets out from the Wiltshire home of his supposed champion, the scheming architect Pecksniff, to seek his fortune in America. In depicting Martin's journey - an experience that teaches him to question his ... Read more

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  • Our Mutual Friend (Centaur Classics)

    A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, "Our Mutual Friend" revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heap’s expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes change hands surprisingly, raising to new heights “Noddy” Boffin, a low-born but kindly clerk who becomes “the Golden Dustman.” Charles Dickens’s ... Read more

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  • One Woman

    Being the Second Part of a Romance of Sussex

    Alfred Ollivant'Äôs "One Woman" is a poignant exploration of love and loss, intricately weaving together the complexities of human relationships against the backdrop of early 20th-century society. The narrative unfolds through a vivid literary style characterized by evocative imagery and deep emotional resonance, reflecting the struggles of its characters in a world dictated by convention. ... Read more

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  • Sketches by Boz

    Sketches by "Boz," Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People (commonly known as Sketches by Boz) is a collection of short pieces Charles Dickens originally published in various newspapers and other periodicals between 1833 and 1836. They were re-issued in book form, under their current title, in February and August 1836, with illustrations by George Cruikshank. The first complete one ... Read more

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  • A Christmas Carol and Other Tales

    Series series Signature Editions
    Charles Dickens’s classic tale A Christmas Carol, along with more of his Christmas writings, freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Editions line.Dickens’s widely adapted A Christmas Carol follows Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly, misanthropic businessman who is visited by spirits who take him on a journey to become a man who truly appreciates Christmas and the value of helping those ... Read more

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  • The Master Of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale (Mobi Classics)

    The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale is a book by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, focusing upon the conflict of two brothers, Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745.The novel is presented as the memoir of one Ephraim Mackellar, steward of the Durrisdeer estate in Scotland. The novel opens in 1745, the year of the Jacobite Rising. When Bonnie ... Read more

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  • King Solomon's Mines

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    King Solomon's Mines, novel by H. Rider Haggard, published in 1885. One of the first African adventure stories, it concerns the efforts of a group of Englishmen to find the legendary diamond mines of King Solomon ... Read more

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  • Shirley

    According to Wikipedia: "Shirley is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell). The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 181112, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The novel is set against a backdrop of the ... Read more

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  • The Way We Live Now (Dream Classics)

    The Way We Live Now is a scathing satirical novel published in London in 1875 by Anthony Trollope, after a popular serialisation. It was regarded by many of Trollope's contemporaries as his finest work.One of his longest novels (it contains a hundred chapters), The Way We Live Now is particularly rich in sub-plot. It was inspired by the financial scandals of the early 1870s, and lashes at the ... Read more

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