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Bleak House
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Charles Dickens |
As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually be… |
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Les silences d'Honorine
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Emmanuelle Petit |
Je traverse la presqu'île, toujours aussi austère, avec ses vagues qui claquent sans cesse sur les rochers. La barrière n'est pas fermée. Une voisine, le facteur? Je ne sais plus qui venait la voir à… |
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Sins of the father
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Andrea Randall |
"Kennedy Sawyer is the valedictorian of her upper middle class, liberal high school. Roland Abbot is a charismatic, attractive televangelist from New Life Church, with a dark past and an illegitimate… |
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The bamboo stalk
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Saʻūd Sanʻūsī |
Josephine escapes poverty by coming to Kuwait from the Philippines to work as a maid, where she meets Rashid, an idealistic only son with literary aspirations. Josephine, with all the wide-eyed naive… |
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Family life and illicit love in earlier generations
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Peter Laslett |
This text about the history of family life approaches the topic on several levels. The author's main thesis considers the European family in relation to the differences between European economic and … |
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Jude the Obscure
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Thomas Hardy |
Hardy's last work of fiction, Jude the Obscure is also one of his most gloomily fatalistic, depicting the lives of individuals who are trapped by forces beyond their control. Jude Fawley, a poor vill… |
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The Scarlet Letter
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Nathaniel Hawthorne |
A stark and allegorical tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne's exploration of t… |
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