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  • MANSFIELD PARK
    AUSTEN, JANE
    Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results. The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheerful amorality, old-fashioned indifference and priggish disapproval of those arou...
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  • WUTHERING HEIGHTS
    BRONTE, EMILY
    Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return ye...
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  • ROMEO AND JULIET
    SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
    Romeo and Juliet is the world's most famous drama of tragic young love. Defying the feud which divides their families, Romeo and Juliet enjoy the fleeting rapture of courtship, marriage and sexual fulfilment; but a combination of old animosities and new coincidences brings them to suicidal deaths. This play offers a rich mixture of romantic lyricism, bawdy comedy, intimate harm...
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  • ANNE OF GREEN GABLES
    MONTGOMERY, LUCY MAUD OBE
    Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of A...
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  • JANE EYRE
    BRONTE, CHARLOTTE
    Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order.All of which circumscribe her life an...
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  • ALICE IN WONDERLAND
    CARROLL, LEWIS
    A curious young girl falls down a rabbit hole into a fantastical, illogical world. She encounters bizarre talking animals, grapples with unpredictable size changes, and ultimately wakes from her dream just as the absurd inhabitants attack ...
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  • THE JUNGLE BOOK
    KIPLING, RUDYARD
    The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of the Jungle. ...
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  • MOBY DICK
    MELVILLE, HERMAN
    Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab’s quest to avenge the whale that ‘reaped’ his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. But it is also a hymn to democracy.Bent as the crew is on Ahab’s appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands, each individual r...
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  • THE RAILWAY CHILDREN
    NESBIT, EDITH
    When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered. They and their mother have to move from their comfortable London home to go and live in a simple country cottage, where Mother writes books to make ends meet. However, they soon come to love the railway that runs near their cottage, and they make a habit of waving to the...
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  • BLACK BEAUTY
    SEWELL, ANNA
    Black Beauty is a perennial children’s favourite, one which has never been out of print since its publication in 1877. It is a moralistic tale of the life of the horse related in the form of an autobiography, describing the world through the eyes of the creature. In taking this anthropomorphic approach, the author Anna Sewell broke new literary ground and her effective storytel...
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  • TREASURE ISLAND
    STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS
    Treasure Island is the seminal pirates and buried treasure novel, which is so brilliantly concocted that it appeals to readers both young and old. The story is told in the first person by young Jim Hawkins, whose mother keeps the Admiral Benbow Inn. An old seadog, a resident at the inn, hires Jim to keep a watch out for other sailors whom he fears but, despite all precautions, ...
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  • PETER PAN
    JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE
    The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them through the sky to Never-Never Land, where they find Red Indians, Wolves, Mermaids and... Pirates.The leader of the pirates is the sinister Captain Hook. His hand was bitten off by a crocodile, who, as Captain Hook explains 'liked me arm so ...
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  • THE SECRET GARDEN - HB
    BUNETT, FRANCES H.
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  • PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
    AUSTEN, JANE
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  • EMMA
    AUSTEN, JANE
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  • PERSUASION
    AUSTEN, JANE
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  • SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
    AUSTEN, JANE
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  • LITTLE WOMEN
    MAY ALCOTT, LOUISA
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  • A CHRISTMAS CAROL
    DICKENS, CHARLES
    A Christmas Carol is the most famous, heart-warming and chilling festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, whose name is synonymous with greed and parsimony: 'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart'. This attitude is soon challenged when th...
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  • LITTLE WOMEN & GOOD WIVES
    ALCOTT, LM
    Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community, Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an ambition to be an author; Beth is a delicate child of thirte...
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  • DUBLINERS
    JOYCE, JAMES
    Introduction and Notes by Laurence Davies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of dom...
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  • THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND
    VERNE, JULES
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  • ULYSSES
    JAMES JOYCE
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  • THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU OTHER STORIES
    WELLS, H.G.
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