Life of Charles Dickens

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  David Copperfield

  David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously viv…

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  American Notes for General Circulation

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  The Mayor of Casterbridge

  Librarian note: The same ISBN is now being used here with a new cover.
  
  In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course o…

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  Eminent Victorians

  Eminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised the genre to the level of high art. It replaced reverence with skepticism and Strachey's wit, iconoclasm, and narrative skill liber…

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  Barnaby Rudge

  Set against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder and goes on to involve conspiracy, blackmail, abducti…

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  Starship Troopers

  The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one "The Third Space War" (or the fourth), or whether "The First Interstellar War" fits it better. We just call it “The Bug War." Everything up…

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  The Old Curiosity Shop

  The archetypal Victorian melodrama, as heartfelt and moving today as when it was first published, Charles Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop is edited with notes and an introduction by Norman Page in Pe…

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  Our Mutual Friend

  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-hea…

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  Armadale

  When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he reveals involves the mysterious Lydia Gwilt: flame-hair…

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  Play It As It Lays

  A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and hau…

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  Tess of the D’Urbervilles

  Alternate covers can be found here and here.
  
  When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D’Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her ‘c…

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  War and Peace

  In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind.
  
  War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known cha…

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  Nicholas Nickleby

  When Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless after his father's death, he appeals to his wealthy uncle to help him find work and to protect his mother and sister. But Ralph Nickleby proves both hard-heart…

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  Bleak House

  The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic urban background of 19th-century London, where fog on the river, seeping into the very bones of the …

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  Middlemarch

  "People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are"
  
  George Eliot’s most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peop…

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  Cotillion

  "One of you shall have her, and my fortune into the bargain"
  
  Such was the whimsical, some would say outrageous, statement of the ageing Mr Penicuik, to the three of his great-nephews gathered around hi…

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  Dombey and Son

  Paul Dombey is a wealthy shipping merchant whose wife dies giving birth to their second child, a long-hoped-for son and heir. Young Paul's health is fragile and he dies aged six, dashing his father's …

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  Jude the Obscure

  Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonem…

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  Oliver Twist

  A gripping portrayal of London's dark criminal underbelly, published in Penguin Classics with an introduction by Philip Horne.
  
  The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity f…

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  The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

  The Warden centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in possession of an income from a charity far in excess of the sum devoted to the purposes of the foundat…

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