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  • Sense and Sensibility

    Series series Wordsworth Classics
    Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco University.'Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security'. Jane Austen's sardonic humour lays bare the stratagems, the hypocrisy and the poignancy inherent in the struggle of two very different sisters to achieve respectability.Sense and Sensibility is a ... Read more

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  • Pride and Prejudice

    by Jane Austen ...
    Series series The Works of Jane Austen presented by Kobo Editions
    There are few more iconic love stories than Georgian-era romance PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, arguably Jane Austen’s most beloved and influential work.Mrs Bennet wants nothing more than to secure good marriages for her five daughters, and so is thrilled when a wealthy young gentleman rents a nearby manor. When middle daughter Elizabeth is first introduced to eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she finds ... Read more

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  • Jane Eyre

    "I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon. I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing."Orphaned as a child, Jane is sent to live with her wealthy aunt at Gateshead. After a traumatic event in the room where her uncle died (did his ghost really appear?), she is sent away to boarding school. Eight years ... Read more

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  • Great Expectations

    Series series The Works of Charles Dickens presented by Kobo Editions
    “He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.”Imagine getting the chance to have everything you’ve ever wanted. For young Pip, an orphan working at a forge, that chance comes in the form of a mysterious fortune that allows him to rise through the ranks of society and become a gentleman. Along the way he loses his ... Read more

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  • Anna Karenina

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Series series The Works of Leo Tolstoy presented by Kobo Editions
    Anna Karenina is a rich and masterful story of love in its many facets and complexities: honest, corrupted, nourishing, destructive. Set against the backdrop of luxury and the Russian upper class, it is the story of a passionate love affair doomed from the beginning between beautiful Anna, married and a mother well placed in Russian high society, and cavalry officer Count Vronsky. Called "one of ... Read more

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  • Oliver Twist

    Series series The Works of Charles Dickens presented by Kobo Editions
    Shocking its middle-class Victorian readers when it was first published in 1838, Oliver Twist tells the story of a young orphan that’s cruelly mistreated from birth and falls in with a gang of thieves. The seedy underbelly of London casts a long shadow over Oliver’s innate optimism, but never quite manages to dim his light as he dodges all obstacles thrown in his path.A champion of social reform, ... Read more

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  • David Copperfield

    Series series The Works of Charles Dickens presented by Kobo Editions
    “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”Considered to be Charles Dickens’ most autobiographical work, David Copperfield begins at the beginning — with the main character describing the events surrounding his birth (as far as he knows). David’s journey of growing up and finding his place in the world is ... Read more

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  • The War of the Worlds

    by H. G. Wells ...
    Series series The Works of H. G. Wells presented by Kobo Editions
    "Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us."H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is a twist on Victorian invasion literature, telling the first-ever story of a Martian invasion of Earth.A mysterious alien ... Read more

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  • The Scarlet Letter

    “The tendency of her fate and fortunes had been to set her free. The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers,—stern and wild ones,—and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.”Hester Prynne has given birth to a child out of wedlock. Humiliated, jailed, and forced to wear a scarlet A (for ... Read more

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  • War and Peace

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Series series The Works of Leo Tolstoy presented by Kobo Editions
    One of Tolstoy’s best works, War and Peace chronicles the impact of the Napoleonic invasion of Russia by following the private and public lives of five wealthy aristocratic Russian families—the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys, the Rostovs, the Kuragins, and the Drubetskoys—in intimate detail through the early 1800’s. The opus is a celebration of the Russian spirit as the prodigious cast of characters ... Read more

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  • Metamorphosis

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Series series The Works of Franz Kafka presented by Kobo Editions
    Travelling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find that he has become a giant bug. The transformation affects the entire family — his father is angry, his mother is sad, and his sister wants him gone so she can continue her life as before. In the end it’s not only Gregor that experiences great change, as his loved ones are forced to break out of their lethargy and find new purpose in ... Read more

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  • Vanity Fair

    “Very likely Miss Binny was right to a great extent. It is the pretty face which creates sympathy in the hearts of men, those wicked rogues. A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face.”Blonde, beautiful, and penniless Becky Sharpe will do whatever it takes to secure her position in life. Staying in London with naive but kind-hearted ... Read more

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