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Brighton rock
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Graham Greene |
An atmospheric crime thriller featuring a teenage sociopath intent on becoming the underworld boss of Brighton. Having murdered a man who had betrayed his gang the young gangster Pinky Brown tries to… |
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Piranha to Scurfy
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Ruth Rendell |
In these pages, internationally celebrated novelist Ruth Rendell, author of Harm Done, offers a collection of unforgettable stories evocative of Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, and other masters of th… |
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D.H. Lawrence
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Anthony R. Beal |
Biography |
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The Magus
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John Fowles |
A startlingly original novel about a young English graduate who takes a position as a teacher at a private school on a small Greek island. Bored and lonely he spends his free hours wandering alone un… |
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Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the evolution of the casebook novel
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A. B. Emrys |
"Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular novelists during England's Victorian era. This critical study explores his formal ingenuity, particularly the novel of testimony constructed from epistolar… |
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Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness and the Secret sharer
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Harold Bloom |
Includes a brief biography of the author, thematic and structural analysis of the two works, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas. |
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To Cut a Long Story Short
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Jeffrey Archer |
Fourteen all new short stories. |
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The lifted veil
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George Eliot |
George Eliot's Gothic story, published the same year as her staunchly realist novel, Adam Bede, continues her preoccupation with human communication and sympathy through the figure of the telepathic … |
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Victorian women's fiction
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Shirley Foster |
Critical interest in women's fiction has grown enormously in recent years, in particular focusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinized contemp… |
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Heart of Darkness
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Joseph Conrad |
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Charles Ma… |
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The courage consort
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Michel Faber |
The Courage Consort, possibly the seventh best-known a cappella vocal ensemble in Britain, are given two weeks in a Belgian chateau to rehearse their latest commission, the monstrously complicated Pa… |
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