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Lady Chatterley?s Lover was banned on its publication in 1928, creating a storm of controversy. Lawrence tells the story of Constance Chatterley?s marriage to Sir Clifford, an aristocratic and an intellectual who is paralysed from the waist down after the First World War. Desperate for an heir and embarrassed by his inability to satisfy his wife, Clifford suggests that she have an affair. Constance, troubled by her husband?s words, finds herself involved...
3) Moby Dick
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English
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?Call me Ishmael.? Thus begins one of the most famous journeys in literature-the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod and its embattled, monomaniacal Captain Ahab. Ishmael quickly learns that the Pequod?s captain sails for revenge against the elusive Moby Dick, a sperm whale with a snow-white hump and mottled skin that destroyed Ahab?s former vessel and left him crippled. As the Pequod sails deeper through the nights and into the sea, the divisions between...
4) Middlemarch
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English
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In 'Middlemarch', George Eliot fashions a concept of life and society free of the dogma of the past yet able to confront the scepticism of the age.
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William Collins
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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Viewed as a precursor to the narrative style and characterization she perfected in her later works, such as Jane Eyre, the novel is Bront?͡s portrayal of a love story from a male perspective. Writing from the point of view of orphaned young teacher William Crimsworth - as the sole male protagonist among Bront?͡s works - the author allows herself a freedom of action in love and will that reveals her character?s loves, desires, and ambitions, as he...
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