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Dracula by Bram Stoker
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
'Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window'. A chilling masterpiece of the horror genre, "Dracula" also illuminated dark corners of Victorian sexuality. When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to advise Count Dracula on a London home, he m ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: English Library
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important ...Show more
Howards End by E M Forster
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
'The poor cannot always reach those whom they want to love, and they can hardly ever escape from those whom they love no longer. We rich can'. 'Only connect' is the idea at the heart of this book, a heartbreaking and provocative tale of three families at the beginning of the twentieth century: the rich ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?' Elizabeth Gaskell's compassionate, richly dramatic novel features one of the most original and fully-rounded female characters in Victorian fiction, Margaret Hale. It shows how, forced to move ...Show more
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
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Category: Classics | Series: English Library
'Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign'. To this 'one very simple principle' the whole of Mill's essay "On Liberty" is dedicated. While many of his immediate predecessors and contemporaries, from Adam Smith to Godwin and Thoreau, had celebrated liberty, it was Mill who or ...Show more
Persuasion by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: English Library
'All the privilege I claim for my own sex...is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.'. Anne Elliot's heartfelt words strike the keynote of Jane Austen's last completed novel. It features a heroine older and wiser than her predecessors in earlier books, and its tone is more intimat ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; Tony Tanner (Contribution by)
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Category: Classics | Series: English Library
Complete and unabridged paperback edition. Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 romantic novel by Jane Austen. It charts the emotional development of protagonist Elizabeth Bennet, who learns the error of making hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between the superficial and the essential. T ...Show more
Selected Short Fiction by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of the novel and experimenting with a diverse range of fictional techniques. In his tales of the supernatural, he creates frighteningly believable, spine-tingling stories of prophetic dre ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: English Library
Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1811. It was published anonymously; By A Lady appears on the title page where the author's name might have been. It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor (age 19) and Marianne (age 16 1/2) as they come of age. They have an older, st ...Show more
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: English Library
Etched against the background of a dying rural society, Tess of the d'Urbervilles was Thomas Hardy's 'bestseller, ' and Tess Durbeyfield remains his most striking and tragic heroine. Of all the characters he created, she meant the most to him. Hopelessly torn between two men--Alec d'Urberville, a wealth ...Show more
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson
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Category: Classics | Series: English Library
Charming in its wise and humane melancholy, this didactic romance Dr. Johnson published in 1759 tells the story of the Emporer of Abyssinia's son, weary of the joys of the happy valley, travels to Aegypt to study the human condition.
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: English Library
The Mayor of Casterbridge is a man haunted by his past. In his youth he betrayed his wife and baby daughter in a shocking incident that led him to swear never to touch alcohol again for twenty-one years. He has since risen from his humble origins to become a respected pillar of the community in Casterbr ...Show more