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9) Bleak house
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English
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'Bleak House', Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - between the fashionable & the outcast, the beautiful & the ugly, the powerful & the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied.
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(Everyman's library volume 46)
Publisher
J. M. Dent & Sons
Pub. Date
1906
Language
English
16) Robinson Crusoe
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English
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This adventure story begins as Crusoe leaves the English coast for Africa and finds himself the sole survivor of a shipwreck. On a desert island, he finds another human footprint on the shore, encounters cannibals, and befriends a native.
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English
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Classic / American English Boston in the 1600s is a small town, but a large crowd waits for Hester Prynne outside the prison. She carries a baby in her arms and the scarlet letter A is on her dress. A is for adulteress. Who is the father of her baby? Nobody knows and Hester will not say.
18) Sheridan's plays
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(Everyman's library volume 95)
Publisher
J. M. Dent
Pub. Date
1906
Language
English
19) Silas Marner
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English
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This novel was George Eliot's favourite. It concerns a bitter weaver who takes on a young orphan girl and gradually transforms his own life and that of the girl. The novel combines humour, rich symbolism and pointed social criticism to create an unsentimental portrait of rural English life.
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Series
Everyman's Library volume 31-32
Publisher
J.M. Dent & Sons
Pub. Date
1906
Language
English
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