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by Thomas Hardy
<i>Far From the Madding Crowd</i> was the first of Hardy’s novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England and is set against the backdrop of the unchanging natural cycle of the year. The story both upholds and questions
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by Thomas Hardy
<p>Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy from Coterie Classics</p> <p>All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book.</p> <p>“I shall do one thing in this life - one thing
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by Thomas Hardy
<p><em>Far From the Madding Crowd</em> was the first of Hardy’s novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England and is set against the backdrop of the unchanging natural cycle of the year. The story both upholds and ...
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by Thomas Hardy
<b>The Penguin English Library Edition of <i>Far From the Madding Crowd </i>by Thomas Hardy</b><b></b><b>'I cannot allow any man to - to criticise my private conduct!' she exclaimed. 'Nor will I for a minute'</b><b></b><b></b>Hardy's powerful ...
ISBN: 9780141198934
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Farewell My Lovely: Popular Penguins
by Raymond Chandler
Eight years ago Moose Malloy and cute little redhead Velma were getting married - until someone framed Malloy for armed robbery. Now his stretch is up and he wants Velma back. PI Philip Marlowe meets Malloy one hot day in Hollywood and, ...
ISBN: 9780141045597
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by Ovid
<p>'Times and their reasons, arranged in order through the Latin year, and constellations sunk beneath the earth and risen, I shall sing.' Ovid's poetical calendar of the Roman year is both a day by day account of festivals and observances and ...
ISBN: 9780191641954
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by Wilkie Collins
<p>This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1874. Born in Marylebone, London in 1824, Collins' family enrolled him at the Maida Hill Academy in 1835, but then took him to France and Italy with them between 1836 and 1838. ...
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by Edmund Gosse
<p>At birth Edmund Gosse was dedicated to 'the Service of the Lord'. His parents were Plymouth Brethren. After his mother's death Gosse was brought up in stifling isolation by his father, a marine biologist whose faith overcame his reason when ...
ISBN: 9780141958743
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Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac (Book Analysis)
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<b>In this clear and detailed reading guide, we’ve done all the hard work for you!</b><br><b><br></b><i>Father Goriot</i> tells the story of Eugène de Rastignac, an ambitious yet honest young man who becomes disillusioned by his surrounding ...
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by Arthur Christopher Benson
In this engaging volume of theological and philosophical essays and anecdotes, British writer A. C. Benson relates the views of his longtime mentor, an Anglican lay clergyman that he refers to as Father Payne. Although it's not exactly clear ...
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by Ivan Turgenev
Clashes and conflicts between fathers and sons are a story as old as humanity itself. Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev uses the turbulence of familial relations as a symbolic lens through which to explore the changing of the ideological guard in ...
ISBN: 9781775417194
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by J. W. von Goethe
<p>The legend of Faust grew up in the sixteenth century, a time of transition between medieval and modern culture in Germany. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) adopted the story of the wandering conjuror who accepts Mephistopheles's offer ...
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by J. W. von Goethe
<p>Loosely connected with Part One and the German legend of Faust, Part Two is a dramatic epic rather than a strictly constructed drama. It is conceived as an act of homage to classical Greek culture and inspired above all by the world of ...
ISBN: 9780191500459
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by WOLFGANG JOHANN VON GOETHE
The best-known work of the Enlightenment literary giant Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust took a lifetime to write. For more than sixty years, Goethe worked on his masterpiece and ultimately divided it into two parts, the second of which was ...
ISBN: 9780486821887
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Favourite Sherlock Holmes Stories
by Arthur Conan Doyle
<p><em>When this competition was first mooted I went into it in a most light-hearted way, thinking that it would be the easiest thing in the world to pick out the twelve best of the Holmes stories. In practice I found that I had engaged myself ...
ISBN: 9781782399513
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by George Eliot
When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his decision to stand for Parliament as a Radical. But after the idealistic Felix Holt also ...
ISBN: 9780140434354
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by George Eliot
In the novel Felix Holt, the Radical, George Eliot (the pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans) turns her attention to political affairs. However, although the Reform movement of the early 1800s is an important plot point in the novel, the tale focuses ...
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by William Dean Howells
Nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters," author and editor William Dean Howells was staunchly committed to realism in fiction. However, rather than reverting to gritty naturalism, Howells' novels are rich in psychological complexity and keenly ...
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