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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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    Chios Classics brings literature's greatest works back to life for new generations. All our books contain a linked table of contents.Dombey and Son was written by Charles Dickens and published in monthly parts from 1846-1848. The book centers around Florence Dombey, a neglected daughter seeking her father's love and approval. ... Read more

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  • Our Mutual Friend

    Our Mutual Friend, written in the years 1864–65, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining psychological insight with social analysis. It centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, "money, money, money, and what money can make of life", but is also about human values. In the opening chapters a body is found in the Thames and ... Read more

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  • The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

    In a biting satire of selfishness and hypocrisy, a young man is disinherited and forced to seek his fortune across the Atlantic, discovering that the greatest deception often lies within one's own family. ... Read more

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  • Little Dorrit

    Series series Victorian Epic
    The novel satirises the shortcomings of both government and society, including the institution of debtors' prisons, where debtors were imprisoned, unable to work, until they repaid their debts. The prison in this case is the Marshalsea, where Dickens's own father had been imprisoned. Dickens is also critical of the lack of a social safety net, the treatment and safety of industrial workers, as ... Read more

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  • Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People

    The pseudonym "Boz" was used by Charles Dickens when he first began writing these sketches, and it served as his early literary identity. The sketches contained in this collection provide a fascinating look at everyday life in early 19th-century London. Dickens used his sharp observational skills and wit to depict a wide range of characters, situations, and social issues he encountered in the ... Read more

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  • Christmas Stories

    The festive traditions that sprang up in Victorian times are often attributed in part to the Christmas stories of Charles Dickens and their evocative depictions of nineteenth-century life. This collection brings together five of Dickens' best-known Christmas stories: the universally loved 'A Christmas Carol', as well as 'The Chimes', 'The Cricket on the Hearth', 'The Battle of Life', and 'The ... Read more

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  • The Man in the Iron Mask (Unabriged)

    The Man in the Iron Mask continues the tale of our four heroes from The Three Musketeers, Dumas's wildly popular introduction to the mischievous Musketeers – D'Artagnan, Aramis, Porthos, and Athos. In this dark sequel, we track their lives many years after the prodigious moment when D'Artagnan receives a commission to be a lieutenant in the Musketeers. We find in The Man in the Iron Mask that ... Read more

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  • The Master of Ballantrae

    Stevenson’s brooding historical romance demonstrates his most abiding theme—the elemental struggle between good and evil—as it unfolds against a hauntingly beautiful Scottish landscape, amid the fierce loyalties and violent enmities that characterized Scottish history. When two brothers attempt to split their loyalties between the warring factions of the 1745 Jacobite rising, one family finds ... Read more

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    Before there was Indiana Jones there was Allan Quartermain: the original explorer, treasure hunter, and adventurer. The Quartermain books have captivated readers for more than a century, spawning more than a dozen movies and a host of imitators. Thrill with Allan as he discovers the mythical King Solomon's Mines and their not-so-mythical curse. These are adventure stories in the grandest tradition ... Read more

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  • Shirley

    Shirley, A Tale is a social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë, first published in 1849. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre . The novel is set in Yorkshire in 1811–12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The novel is set against the backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry.Plot| Robert ... Read more

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