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MOLL FLANDERS

DEFOE, DANIEL

The novel follows the life of its eponymous heroine, Moll Flanders, through its many vicissitudes, which include her early seduction, careers in crime and prostitution, conviction for theft and transportation to the plantations of Virginia, and her ultimate redemption and prosperity in the New World.Moll Flanders was one of the first social novels to be published in English and...

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BARNABY RUDGE

DICKENS, CHARLES

This vivid historical and political novel by Dickens is centred on the infamous No Popery riots, instigated by Lord George Gordon, which terrorised London in 1780. Dickens targets are prejudice, intolerance, religious bigotry and nationalistic fervour, together with the villains who exploit these for selfish ends.His intense account of the riots is interwoven with the myster...

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DOMBEY AND SON

DICKENS, CHARLES

Mr Dombey is a man obsessed with his firm. His son is groomed from birth to take his place within it, despite his visionary eccentricity and declining health. But Dombey also has a daughter, whose unfailing love for her father goes unreturned. 'Girls' said Mr Dombey, 'have nothing to do with Dombey and Son'. When Walter Gay, a young clerk in her father's office, rescues her fro...

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LITTLE DORRIT

DICKENS, CHARLES

Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens working title for the novel, Nobodys Fault, highlights its concern with personal responsibility in private and public life. Dickens childhood experiences inform the vivid scenes in Marshalsea debtors prison, while his adult perceptions of governmental failures shape his satirical p...

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MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT

DICKENS, CHARLES

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr John Bowen, Department of English, University of Keele.Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens comic masterpiece about which his biographer, Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the authors development as he began to delve deeper into the springs of character.Old Martin Chuzzlewit, tormen...

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NICHOLAS NICKLEBY

DICKENS, CHARLES

Introduction and Notes by Dr T.C.B. Cook Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic triumph and firmly established Dickens as a literary gentleman. It has a full supporting cast of delectable characters that range from the iniquitous Wackford Squeers and his family, to the delight...

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MAN IN THE IRON MASK

DUMAS, ALEXANDRE

The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas celebrated foursome of DArtagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, who first appeared in The Three Musketeers. Some thirty-five years on, the bonds of comradeship are under strain as they end up on different sides in a power struggle that may undermine the young Louis XIV and change the face of the...

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER

DUMAS, ALEXANDRE

A year after the publication of The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas produced a sequel worthy in every respect of the original. In Twenty Years After the much beloved DArtaganan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis reunite to fight the forces of evil. In the original novel they defeated Milady, a formidable foe; now they need to face her vengeful son Mordaunt, as well as countering the...

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DIAMOND AS BIG AS THE RITZ & OTHER STORIES

FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is an ominous fable about the pursuit of great wealth. Readers will be transported to a fabulous fantasy land of such opulence that its very existence has to remain a jealously guarded secret. Fatal consequences lie in store for bona fide guests and uninvited visitors alike, while the sybaritic luxury of the place is evoked in an effortless pros...

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TENDER IS THE NIGHT / THE LAST TYCOON

FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT

Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the Roaring Twenties. A wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren, falls in love with Dick Diver her psychiatrist. The resulting saga of the Divers troubled marriage, and their circle of friends, includes a cast of aristocratic and beautiful people, unhappy love affairs, a duel, incest, and the p...

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THIS SIDE OF PARADISE / THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED

FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT

This Side of Paradise tells the story of Amory Blaine, the only child of wealthy parents, whose journey from adolescence to adulthood follows him from prep school through to Princeton University, where his literary talents flourish, in contrast to his academic failure. A sequence of love affairs with beautiful young women are fatally damaged by the collapse of his familys fort...

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MADAME BOVARY

FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE

Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flauberts contemporaries, the fascination came from the novelists meticulous account of provincial matters. For the writer, subject matter was subordinate to his anguished quest for aesthetic perfection. For his twentieth-century successors the formal experiments that underp...

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DEAD SOULS

NIKOLAI GOGOL

Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up dead souls. These are the papers relating to serfs who have died since the last census, but who remain on the record and still attract a tax demand. Chichikov is willing to relieve their owners of the tax burden by buying the titles ...

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LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER

LAWRENCE, D.H.

With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterleys Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is most often associated. First published privately in Florence in 1928, it only became a world-wide best-seller after Penguin Books had successfully resisted an attempt by the British Director of Public Prosecutions to prevent them offer...

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RAINBOW

LAWRENCE, D.H.

In 1915, Lawrences frank representation of sexuality in The Rainbow caused a furore and the novel was seized by the police and banned almost as soon as it was published. Today it is recognised as one of the classic English novels of the twentieth century.The Rainbow is about three generations of the Brangwen family of Nottinghamshire from the 1840s to the early years of the tw...

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THE WAY WE LIVE NOW

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

The tough-mindedness of the social satire in and its air of palpable integrity give this novel a special place in Anthony Trollopes Literary career. Trollope paints a picture as panoramic as his title promises, of the life of 1870s London, the loves of those drawn to and through the city, and the career of Augustus Melmotte. Melmotte is one of the Victorian novels greatest an...

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FATHERS AND SONS

TURGENEV, IVAN SERGEEVICH

Fathers and Sons is one of the greatest nineteenth-century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as Turgenevs finest work. It is a political novel set in a domestic context, with a universal theme, the generational divide between fathers and sons. Set in 1859 at the moment when the Russian autocratic state began to move hesitantly towards social and political reform, the...

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THE INNOCENTS ABROAD

TWAIN, MARK

Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party?So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the Holy Land in June 1867. His adventures produced The Innocents Abroad, a book so funny and provocative it made him an international star for the rest of his life. He was making his first responses to the Old World to P...

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FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON / AROUND THE MOON

VERNE, JULES (JULIO)

Jules Verne (1828-1905) was internationally famous as the author of novels based on extraordinary voyages. His visionary use of new travel technologies inspired his readers to look to the industrial future rather than the remote past for their dreams of adventure. The popularity of his novels led directly to modern science fiction.In From the Earth to the Moon and Around the ...

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MYSTERIOUS ISLAND

VERNE, JULES (JULIO)

Jules Verne (1828-1905) is internationally famous as the author of a distinctive series of adventure stories describing new travel technologies which opened up the world and provided means to escape from it. The collective enthusiasm of generations of readers of his extraordinary voyages was a key factor in the rise of modern science fiction.In The Mysterious Island a group o...

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AENEID

VIRGIL

The Aeneid is Virgils Masterpiece. His epic poem recounts the story of Romes legendary origins from the ashes of Troy and proclaims her destiny of world dominion. This optimistic vision is accompanied by an undertow of sadness at the price that must be paid in human suffering to secure Romes future greatness. The tension between the public voice of celebration and the tragic...

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CANDIDE AND OTHER WORKS

VOLTAIRE

Candide (1759) is a bright, colourful literary firework display of a novella. With sparkling wit and biting humour, Voltaire hits several targets with fierce and comic satire: organised religion, the overweening pride of aristocrats, merchants greed, colonial ambition and the hopeless complacency of Leibnizian philosophy that believes all is for the best in the best of all po...

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AGE OF INNOCENCE

WHARTON, EDITH

Widely regarded as one of Edith Whartons greatest achievements, The Age of Innocence is not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes dark and disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of the eternal triangle of love.Set against the backdrop of upper-class New York society during the 1870s, the authors combination of powerful prose combined with a thoroughly researc...

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ETHAN FROME

WHARTON, EDITH

With this intensely moving short novel, Edith Wharton set out to draw life as it really was in the lonely villages and desolate farms of the harsh New England mountains. Through the eyes of a visitor from the city, trapped for a winter in snowbound Starkfield, readers glimpse the hidden histories of this austere and beautiful land. Piecing together the story of monosyllabic E...

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HOUSE OF MIRTH

WHARTON, EDITH

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slande...

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DE PROFUNDIS, THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL & OTHERS

WILDE, OSCAR

De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde. De Profundis is Wilde's eloquent and bitter reproach from prison to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. He contrasts his behaviour with that of his close friend Robert Ross who became Wilde's literary executor. The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a deeply moving and characteristically generous poem on the horrors...

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ORLANDO

WOOLF, VIRGINIA

Virginia Woolfs Orlando The longest and most charming love letter in literature, playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolfs close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeths England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as...

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THE WAVES

WOOLF, VIRGINIA

I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot, Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel, The Waves. Widely regarded as one of her greatest and most original works, it conveys the rhythms of life in synchrony with the cycle of nature and the passage of time. Six children Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny and Louis meet in a garden close to the sea, their voices sounding ...

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BETWEEN THE ACTS / THE YEARS

WOOLF, VIRGINIA

This volume brings together Virginia Woolfs last two novels, The Years (1937) which traces the lives of members of a dispersed middle-class family between 1880 and 1937, and Between the Acts (1941), an account of a village pageant in the summer preceding the Second World War which successfully interweaves comedy, satire and disturbing observation.Rewriting the traditional fami...

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THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS

GRAHAME, KENNETH

Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahames classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation.Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad, have brought delight to many through the years with their odd adventures on and by the river, and at the imposing residence of Toad Hall.Grahames book was later dramatised by A. A. Milne, and became a perennial...

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Libros de Classic literature 562 resultados

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