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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.
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The Thirty-Nine Steps
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Richard Hannay finds a corpse in his flat, and becomes involved in a plot by spies to precipitate war and subvert British naval power. The resourceful victim of a manhunt, he is pursued by both the police and the ruthless conspirators.
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Bleak House
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Represents a city’s underworld, and the laws of corruption and delay. This novel projects these things in a vision that embraces black comedy, cosmic farce, and tragic ruin.
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Dracula
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Bram Stoker’s chilling masterpiece, Dracula, is a truly iconic and unsettling tale of vampirism.
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