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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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 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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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.
Aurora Floyd
Mary Elizabeth Braddon and P. D. Edwards (ed.)
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‘With Lady Audley’s Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon had established herself, alongside Wilkie Collins and Mrs Henry Wood, as one of the ruling ...
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Autobiography
John Stuart Mill and Mark Philp (ed.)
It may be useful that there should be some record of an education which was unusual and remarkable John Stuart Mill (1806-73), philosopher, economist, and political thinker, was the most ...
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An Autobiography: and Other Writings (2 ed.)
Anthony Trollope and Nicholas Shrimpton (ed.)
I hated the office. I hated my work...the only career in life within my reach was that of an author.' The only autobiography by a major Victorian novelist, Trollope’s account offers a ...
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Barchester Towers: The Chronicles of Barsetshire (3 ed.)
Anthony Trollope and John Bowen (ed.)
‘Mr Slope flattered himself that he could out-manoeuvre the lady…he did not doubt of ultimate triumph.’ Barchester Towers (1857) was the book that made Trollope's reputation and it remains ...
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Barnaby Rudge
Charles Dickens, Jon Mee, and Clive Hurst (ed.)
What dark history is this?’ This is the question that hangs over Dickens’s brooding novel of mayhem and murder in the eighteenth century. Set in London at the time of the anti-Catholic ...
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Barry Lyndon
William Makepeace Thackeray and Andrew Sanders (ed.)
Set in the second half of the eighteenth century, Barry Lyndon is the fictional autobiography of an adventurer and rogue whom the reader is led to distrust from the very beginning. Born ...
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Black Beauty
Anna Sewell and Adrienne E. Gavin (ed.)
‘I have heard men say, that seeing is believing; but I should say that feeling is believing.’ Anna Sewell's famous ‘Autobiography of a Horse, published in 1877, is one of the bestselling ...
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Bleak House
Charles Dickens and Stephen Gill (ed.)
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 ...
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The Bride of Lammermoor
Walter Scott and Fiona Robertson (ed.)
The plans of Edgar, Master of Ravenswood to regain his ancient family estate from the corrupt Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland are frustrated by the complexities of the legal and ...
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Can You Forgive Her?
Anthony Trollope and Dinah Birch (ed.)
‘She loved him much, and admired him even more than she loved him…Would that he had some faults!’ Alice Vavasor is torn between a risky marriage with her ambitious cousin George and the ...
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Captains Courageous
Rudyard Kipling and Leonee Ormond (ed.)
Harvey Cheyne is the over-indulged son of a millionaire. When he falls overboard from an ocean liner he is rescued by a Portuguese fisherman and, initially against his will, joins the crew ...
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Castle Rackrent
Maria Edgeworth, George Watson (ed.), and Kathryn J. Kirkpatrick
During the 1790s, with Ireland in political crisis, Maria Edgeworth made a surprisingly rebellious choice: in Castle Rackrent, her first novel, she adopted an Irish Catholic voice to ...
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