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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain and Emory Elliott (ed.)
You don’t know about me, without you have read a book by the name of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, but that ain’t no matter. So begins, in characteristic fashion, one of the greatest ...
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The Adventures of Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi
The story of the wooden puppet who learns goodness and becomes a real boy is famous the world over, and has been familiar in English for over a century. From the moment Joseph the carpenter ...
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The Adventures of Roderick Random
Tobias Smollett and Paul-Gabriel Boucé (ed.)
Roderick Random (1748), Smollett's first novel, is full of the dazzling vitality characteristics of all his work, as well as of his own life. Roderick is the boisterous and unprincipled ...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle and Richard Lancelyn Green (ed.)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock ...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain and Peter Stoneley (ed.)
‘Tom was a glittering hero once more – the pet of the old, and the envy of the young…There were some that believed he would be President yet, if he escaped hanging.’ In this enduring and ...
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Against Nature
Joris-Karl Huysmans and Nicholas White (ed.)
‘It will be the biggest fiasco of the year - but I don't care a damn! It will be something nobody has ever done before, and I shall have said what I had to say.’ As Joris -Karl Huysmans ...
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The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton and Stephen Orgel (ed.)
‘They lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.’
Edith Wharton’s most ...
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Agnes Grey
Anne Brontë, Robert Inglesfield (ed.), Hilda Marsden (ed.), and Sally Shuttleworth
‘How delightful it would be to be a governess!’ When the young Agnes Grey takes up her first post as governess she is full of hope; she believes she only has to remember ‘myself at their ...
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The Ambassadors
Henry James and Christopher Butler (ed.)
Lambert Strether, a mild middle-aged American of no particular achievements, is dispatched to Paris from the manufacturing empire of Woollett, Massachusetts. The mission conferred on him by ...
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The American
Henry James and Adrian Poole (ed.)
‘You you a nun; you with your beauty defaced and your nature wasted you behind locks and bars! Never, never, if I can prevent it!’ A wealthy American man of business descends on Europe ...
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The American Senator
Anthony Trollope and John Halperin (ed.)
Arabella Trefoil, the beautiful anti-heroine of The American Senator, was described by Trollope one of the ‘women who run down husbands’. Her actions are seen through the eyes of The ...
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Anecdotes & Antidotes: A Medieval Arabic History of Physicians
Ibn Abi¯ Usaybiʿah
So wrote Syrian physician Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah, circa 1243, as he embarked on the first world history of medicine ever attempted. Many physicians served at the royal courts of their time and ...
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
‘Love… it means too much to me, far more than you can understand.’ At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate ...
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An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction
Paul Salzman (ed.)
These five works - George Gascoigne's The Adventures of Master F. J; John Lyly's Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit; Robert Greene's Pandosto. The Triumph of Time; Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate ...
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The Antiquary
Walter Scott and Nicola Watson (ed.)
‘It was early in a fine summer’s day, near the end of the eighteenth century, when a young man, of genteel appearance, having occasion to go towards the north-east of Scotland, provided ...
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Armadale
Wilkie Collins and Catharine Peters (ed.)
Armadale tells the devastating story of the independent, murderous, and adulterous Lydia Gwilt. This traditional melodrama also considers the modern theme of the role of women in society.
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
Having assured the members of London’s exclusive Reform Club that he will circumnavigate the world in 80 days, Fogg – stiff, repressed, English – starts by joining forces with an ...
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The Aspern Papers and Other Stories
Henry James and Adrian Poole (ed.)
There's no baseness I wouldn't commit for Jeffrey Aspern's sake.’ The poet Aspern, long since dead, has left behind some private papers. They are jealously guarded by an old lady, once his ...
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The Assommoir
Émile Zola and Robert Lethbridge (ed.)
Gervaise had waited up for Lantier until two in the morning. Then, shivering all over from sitting half undressed in the cold air from the window, she’d slumped across the bed, ...
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