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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Brighton rock Brighton rock 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… OL106083W
Piranha to Scurfy Piranha to Scurfy 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… OL12139W
D.H. Lawrence D.H. Lawrence Anthony R. Beal Biography OL139729W
The Magus The Magus 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… OL15028W
Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the evolution of the casebook novel Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the evolution of the casebook novel 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… OL15980039W
Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness and the Secret sharer Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness and the Secret sharer 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. OL17315918W
To Cut a Long Story Short To Cut a Long Story Short Jeffrey Archer Fourteen all new short stories. OL1807042W
The lifted veil The lifted veil 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 … OL20923W
Victorian women's fiction Victorian women's fiction 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… OL3531688W
Heart of Darkness Heart of Darkness 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… OL38663W
The courage consort The courage consort 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… OL56003W