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  The Palliser Novels: Book 1

  Can You Forgive Her?

  by Anthony Trollope

  Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright and gentlemanly John Grey - and finds herself accepting and rejecting each of them in turn. Increasingly confused about her own feelings and unable to forgive herself for such vacillation, her situation is contrasted with that of her friend Lady Glencora - forced to marry the rising politician Plantagenet Palliser... (more)
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  Wives and Daughters

  by Elizabeth Gaskell

  Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, this narrative traces the development of two girls into womanhood within the gossiping and watchful society of Hollingford.Molly Gibson, the daughter of a country doctor, copes with an unwanted stepmother, an impetuous stepsister, burdensome secrets, the town gossips, and the tug on her own heartstrings for a man who thinks of her only as a friend.
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  The Chronicles of Carlingford

  Miss Marjoribanks

  by Margaret Oliphant

  The esteemed English critic Q. D. Leavis declared Margaret Oliphant's heroine Lucilla to be the "missing link" in nineteenth-century literature between Jane Austen's Emma and George Eliot's Dorothea Brooke, and "more entertaining, more impressive, and more likeable than either." Miss Marjoribanks is perhaps the most famous novel in The Chronicles of Carlingford --Oliphant's popular series of short stories and... (more)
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  The Way We Live Now

  by Anthony Trollope

  This book is provided with an introduction and notes by Peter Merchant. Canterbury Christ Church College, the tough-mindedness of the social satire in and its air of palpable integrity give this novel a special place in Anthony Trollope's 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... (more)
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  Sylvia's Lovers

  by Elizabeth Gaskell

  In the 1790s, the Yorkshire seaside town of Monkshaven is disturbed by the arrival of the press-gang who come to seize and ship their captives abroad to fight in the Napoleonic wars.In this atmosphere of unease Sylvia's Lovers portrays the rivalries of two men, the sober tradesman Philip Hepburn, who has been devoted to his cousin Sylvia since her childhood, and the whaleship harpooner Charley Kinraid,... (more)
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  Lady Anna

  by Anthony Trollope

  First published in 1874, Lady Anna is a tale of enforced marriage in the midst of a world of radical politics and social inequality. We see the attempts of Countess Lovel to justify her claim to her title and the struggles of her daughter Anna as she must choose between a marriage of true love and one of convenience and social profit.
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  Pride and Prejudice

  by Jane Austen

  The proud and wealthy Mr. Darcy and spirited Elizabeth Bennet dislike each other at first sight. While Elizabeth's mother schemes for suitable husbands for her five daughters, his pride and her prejudice just might keep them apart. At the same time, Elizabeth's sister, Jane, and Mr. Bingley dance.
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  The Pickwick Papers

  by Charles Dickens

  Dickens's first novel - with its creative use of the old tradition of graphic satire - is an episodic series of adventures featuring the noble Mr Pickwick and a range of characters such as Jingle, Sam Weller and various other members of the Pickwick Club.
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  No Name

  by Wilkie Collins

  This novel about the stigma of illegitimacy, rejected as immoral by the critics of its day, is now seen as a work of social insight, showing Collins at the height of his powers.
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  The American Senator

  by Anthony Trollope

  Arabella Trefoil, the beautiful anti-heroine of this novel, inspired Trollope to write of her, "I wished to express the depth of my scorn for women who run down husbands." Arabella's determination to find a rich husband is at the heart of this story and her character, though often maligned, is one of Trollope's most famous and vivid creations.
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  Lady Audley's Secret

  by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Lady Audley's Secret is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. It was originally produced in three volumes along with a serialized magazine version and, later, a single volume edition. Lady Audley's Secret follows Robert Audley through his detective-like work in trying to uncover what happened to his friend George Talboys and who his uncle's wife, Lucy Audley, really is. During his search, Robert has to... (more)
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  David Copperfield

  by Charles Dickens

  David Copperfield is the story of a young man’s adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr. Murdstone; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora; and the... (more)
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  A Tale of Two Cities

  by Charles Dickens

  “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ...” With these famous words, Charles Dickens plunges the reader into one of history’s most explosive eras — the French Revolution. From the storming of the Bastille to the relentless drop of the guillotine, Dickens vividly captures the terror and upheaval of that tumultuous period. At the center is the novel’s hero, Sydney Carton, a lazy, alcoholic attorney... (more)
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  Bleak House

  by Charles Dickens

  Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections — between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and their victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, and nowhere is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed.
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  Far from the Madding Crowd

  by Thomas Hardy

  Bathsheba Everdene is a strong, confident woman who becomes a powerful farmer. But her emotional life descends into chaos as she becomes involved with three very different men.
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  Tess of the D'Urbervilles

  by Thomas Hardy

  Violated by one man, forsaken by another, Tess Durbeyfield is the magnificent and spirited heroine of Thomas Hardy's immortal work. Of all the great English novelists, no one writes more eloquently of tragic destiny than Hardy. With the innocent and powerless victim, Tess, he creates profound sympathy for human frailty, while passionately indicting the injustices of Victorian society. Scorned upon its publication... (more)
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  The Return of the Native

  by Thomas Hardy

  A new edition of Thomas Hardy's timeless novel of two pairs of mismatched lovers. One of Hardy's classic statements about modern love, courtship, and marriage, The Return of the Native is set in the pastoral village of Egdon Heath. The fiery Eustacia Vye, wishing only for passionate love, believes that her escape from Egdon lies in her marriage to Clym Yeobright, the returning "native," home from Paris and... (more)
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  Jude the Obscure

  by Thomas Hardy

  Hardy's masterpiece traces a poor stonemason's ill-fated romance with his free-spirited cousin. No Victorian institution is spared — marriage, religion, education — and the outrage following publication led the embittered author to renounce fiction. Modern critics hail this novel as a pioneering work of feminism and socialist thought.
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  Sense and Sensibility

  by Jane Austen

  'Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security.' Jane Austen's sardonic humour lays bare the stratagems, the hypocrisy and the poignancy inherent in the struggle of two very different sisters to achieve respectability. "Sense and Sensibility" is a delightful comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two... (more)
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  Uncle Tom's Cabin

  Or, Life Among the Lowly

  by Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Edited and with an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine. University of Kent at Canterbury. Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most popular, influential and controversial book written by an American. Stowe s rich, panoramic novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in and responsible for the sin of slavery, and resoundingly concludes that only 'repentance, justice and mercy' will prevent... (more)