Literature
Washington Square
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Henry James
Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Ma…
Wessex Tales
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Thomas Hardy
Wessex Tales is a collection of six short stories written by Hardy in the 1880’s. If you’ve never read Hardy they’ll serve as a good introdu…
The Vicar of Wakefield
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Oliver Goldsmith
Published in 1766, 'The Vicar of Wakefield' was Oliver Goldsmith's only novel. It was thought to have been sold to the publisher for £…
Agnes Grey
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Anne Brontë
The novel tells the story of Agnes Grey, the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to financial ruin. Desperate to earn the money to ca…
Vixen
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
This is an exquisite and heartbreaking love story. Violet Tempest and Roderick Vawdrey, otherwise known to each other as Vixen and Rorie, ar…
The Moneychangers
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Upton Sinclair
A story of white collar crime and intrigue told from the point of view of Montague, a member of the privileged class of New York. Montague w…
Crucial Instances
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Edith Wharton
This is Edith Wharton's second published collection of short stories (1901). One of these seven stories, "Copy: A Dialogue," is w…
Jacob's Room
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Virginia Woolf
The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders, and is presented entirely by the impres…
The Portrait of a Lady, Volume 1
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Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 …
Resurrection, Book 1
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Leo Tolstoy
Resurrection is the last of Tolstoy's major fiction works published in his lifetime. Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of injustic…
Dangerous Connections (Les liaisons dangereuses)
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Choderlos De Laclos and Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
A translation of 'Les Liaisons dangereuses' alternative title 'Dangerous Liasons'Everyone probably has Glenn Close and John Malkovich in mi…
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
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Samuel Johnson
In this enchanting fable (subtitled The Choice of Life), Rasselas and his retinue burrow their way out of the totalitarian paradise of the H…
News From Nowhere
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William Morris
News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialis…
Summer
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Edith Wharton
The story is one of only two novels by Wharton to be set in New England. The novel details the sexual awakening of its protagonist, Charity …
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 1
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Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy) is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in n…
An Essay on Man
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Alexander Pope
Pope’s Essay on Man, a masterpiece of concise summary in itself, can fairly be summed up as an optimistic enquiry into mankind’s place in th…
The Man of Property (Forsyte Saga Vol. 1)
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John Galsworthy
'The Forsyte Saga' is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties. The Man of Pro…
The American
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Henry James
One of James’s early novels, The American plunges right in to one of the writer’s most enduring subjects, that of the innocent, or at least …
The Passionate Friends
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H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells is best known for his science fiction, but some of his greatest works were in other genres. The Passionate Friends is a love sto…
Oliver Twist (version 2)
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Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The…