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Pudd nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins contain Twain s most overt treatment of the moral and societal implications of slavery in America.

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This work tells the story of Roxanne, a nearly-white slave who gives birth to the son of a Virginia gentleman and also brings up Tom, the son of a ... More

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Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), written in a more sombre vein than his other Mississippi writings, was Mark Twain's last serious work of fiction. It ... More

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Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), written in a more sombre vein than his other Mississippi writings, was Mark Twain's last serious work of fiction. It ... More

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Widely acknowledged as the greatest of his later works, this story of switched babies and slavery is Twain's darkest vision of race in America. It ... More

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Title: The Prisoner of Zenda. Being the history of three months in the life of an English gentleman.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print ... More

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The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man ... More

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Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), written in a more sombre vein than his other Mississippi writings, was Mark Twain's last serious work of fiction. It ... More

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This novel traces the life of Ethelberta Chickerel. She is born into a low class family of servants and workmen, but manages to become a part of high ... More

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"I saw the two shadowy figures slowly pacing backward and forward in the moonlight, the woman a little in advance of the man. What was he saying to ... More

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Rudolph Rassendyll's life is interrupted by his unexpected and personal involvement in the affairs of Ruritania whilst travelling through the town of ... More

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A chance meeting between a member of the royal family and a street urchin triggers a course of events that form the basis of this enthralling story. ... More

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An intruder, a desperate struggle, a family under siege: "Panic Attack" is Starr's most provocative and suspenseful novel to date. This is the ... More

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With the depth of insight and pitiless compassion we have come to expect from the author of "Suite Francaise," Nemirovsky shows the soul of a ... More

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Illywhacker is a dazzling comic narrative, from the lips of the 109-year-old Herbert Badgery, the 'illywhacker' or confidence trickster of the title. ... More

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (nee Godwin) (1797-1851) was an English romantic gothic novelist. She received an excellent education, which was unusual ... More

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"Unquestionably the best book he has ever written."'--Susy Clemens, aged thirteen

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Having been dismissed from Lord Byron's service, Dr John Polidori had fallen on hard times. Three years earlier he had accompanied the poet on a tour ... More

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A murder trial, a jury deliberating intensely on the death penalty, venal political corruption, and a staunch investigation set the stage for this ... More

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From the author of "The Night Before the Wedding" comes a thrilling new story featuring a beautiful woman, an English duke, and a web of deceit. ... More

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