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Hard Times
Set in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment, which is the the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner
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Little Dorrit
Presenting a tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, this novel highlights its concern with personal responsibility in private and public life.
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Nicholas Nickleby
Features characters that range from the iniquitous Wackford Squeers and his family, to the delightful Mrs Nickleby, taking in the eccentric Crummles and his travelling players, the Mantalinis, the Kenwigs, and many more.
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The Pickwick Papers
Widely regarded as one of the Classics of comic writing in English.
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Jane Eyre
Ranked as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction, this title portrays the heroine, who although poor and of plain appearance, possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage.
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The Professor
The Professor is Charlotte Bronte’s first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man, William Crimsworth
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Moll Flanders
Follows the life of the heroine through her 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
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Robinson Crusoe
This perennially popular book was cited by Karl Marx in Das Kapital to illustrate economic theory, but it is readers of all ages over the last 280 years who have given “Robinson Crusoe” its abiding position as a classic tale of adventure.
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The Inferno
Writing his “Comedy” (the epithet “Divine” was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, Dante aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically. It tells the story of a character who is at one and the same time both Dant
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Calypso
Calypso by David Sedaris Why did World War I happen? Several of the oft-cited causes are reviewed and discussed in this analysis. The argument of the alliance systems is inadequate, lacking relevance or compelling force. The argument of an accident or sli
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10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World : Shortlisted For The Booker Prize 2019
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