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The Lost World and Other Stories
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.The protagonist, the ‘cave-man in a lounge suit’, is the maddening, irascible and fascinating Professor George Edward Challenger. This volume includes adventures he faced such as that high above the Amazon rain forest in “The Lost World” and the challenge
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The Trumpet-Major
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.The novel is set in Wessex during the Napoleonic Wars. It interweaves a romantic love story of the rivalry of two brothers for the hand of the heroine Anne Garland. It also contains elements of sadness and even tragedy.
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Rob Roy
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.From its first publication in 1816, “Rob Roy” has been recognised as containing some of Scott’s finest writing and most engaging, fully realised characters.
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Dombey and Son
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.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.
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A Pair of Blue Eyes
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Rich with biographical echoes, this novel reveals the emergence of the schematic ironies which characterise the author’s later works
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Complete Ghost Stories
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Dickens’ natural inclinations toward drama and the macabre made him a brilliant teller of ghost tales, and in the twenty stories presented here, which include his celebrated “A Christmas Carol”, the full range of his gothic talents can be seen
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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Dickens’ final, unfinished novel features themes and motifs such as: drugs, disappearances, sexual obsession, disguise and a possible murder. It also includes a number of stories and sketches, with subjects as different as murder, guilt and childhood roma
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man’s nature. This volume also includes a collection of Stevenson’s short stories
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Shirley
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Shirley is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman’s role is and can be. Their male counterparts – Louis, the powerless tutor, and Robert, his cloth-manufacturing brother – also stand at odds to society’s
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Villette
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Based on the author’s personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, this work presents a tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude.
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Mill on the Floss
Original price was: $11.00.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York.This novel, based on George Eliot’s own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age.
