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This book comes with an introduction by Graham Handley. Who was the Countess and why does she selfishly ingratiate herself into the poor household of ... More

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This title includes introduction and notes by Dinny Thorold, University of Westminster. "Felix Holt" is set, like "Middlemarch" in the Midlands at ... More

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Writing at the very moment when the foundations of Western thought were being challenged and undermined, George Eliot fashions in Middlemarch (1871-2 ... More

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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) wanted his last novel 'to deal unaffectedly with the fret and fever, derision and disaster, that may press in the wake of ... More

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Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living ... More

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Wuthering Heights is a house on the lonely moors of Yorkshire. Here a tragic love story unfolds as Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliffe fall in love, ... More

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Mrs Bennet wants all of her five daughters to marry and to marry well. When two rich young men come to the village, Mrs Bennet is sure that they will ... More

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In "David Copperfield" (1849), once again, issues of class and the differences between public and private standards (represented in the corruption of ... More

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'A man ...is so in the way in the house!' A vivid and affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England, Elizabeth Gaskell's ... More

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In this novel, Eliot set out to come to terms with the English Jews, a society-within-a-society which her contemporaries seemed to be either ... More

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Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr. Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family ... More

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Ernest Pontifex, son of a bullying clergyman, leads a life of disarray. Ernest struggles with orthodoxy, lives in the slums, is thrown into prison, ... More

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"The Pickwick Papers" has delighted readers since its first publication with the comedic adventures of the unforgettable members of the Pickwick Club ... More

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"The Old Curiosity Shop" tells the tragic story of Little Nell. Raised by her loving grandfather, the actions of the malevolent Quilp sees the pair ... More

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Northanger Abbey is the earliest of Jane Austen's great comedies of female enlightenment and combines literary burlesque - making fun of the excesses ... More

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Austen's last novel is the crowning achievement of her matchless career. Her heroine, Anne Elliot, a woman of integrity, breeding and great depth of ... More

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Cosima Chudleigh, a sheltered, bookish 22-year-old, comes to London to begin what she firmly believes will be a career as a respected novelist. A ... More

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Following on from the success of The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, Hesperus presents another collaboration between Charles Dickens and Wilkie ... More

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A. S. Byatt provides an introduction to one of the most popular novels in English literature, George Eliot's Middlemarch.

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Dickens' final novel, "Our Mutual Friend", is acclaimed as his most sophisticated work, combining deep psychological insight with rich social ... More

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'She loved him much, and admired him even more than she loved him...Would that he had some faults!' Alice Vavasor is torn between a risky marriage ... More

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"The Old Wives' Tale" (1908) celebrates the romance of even the most ordinary lives in the course of tracing the passage of time over three ... More

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A story of Victorian love in England. Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth meet again after many years. They are in love but will they marry? A level 2 ... More

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