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The Rise of Silas Lapham
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William Dean Howells |
The Rise of Silas Lapham is a novel written by William Dean Howells in 1885 about the materialistic rise of Silas Lapham from rags to riches, and his ensuing moral susceptibility. Silas earns a fortu… |
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The Good Earth
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Ruth Goode,Donald F. Roden,Stephen Colbourn,Nick Bertozzi,Pearl S. Buck,Ernst Simon |
This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby,… |
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Martin Chuzzlewit
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Charles Dickens |
The greed of his family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and namesake to make his own way in the world. And so young Martin sets out f… |
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Master Humphrey's Clock
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Charles Dickens |
*Master Humphrey's Clock* was an ambitious weekly literary magazine published by Dickens himself. Lasting only from 1840 to 1841, it spun off some major works, including *The Old Curiosity Shop* and … |
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Ten Years Later
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Alexandre Dumas |
In the months of March-July in 1844, in the magazine Le Siecle, the first portion of a story appeared, penned by the celebrated playwright Alexandre Dumas. It was based, he claimed, on some manuscrip… |
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Tom Sawyer Abroad
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Mark Twain |
Tom's plan to become famous involves Huck Finn and his friend Jim in a crusade to the Holy Land by balloon ascension. |
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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F. Scott Fitzgerald |
In 1860 Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," a witty and fantastical satire about aging, is one of Fitzgerald's most memor… |
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The Great Gatsby
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F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at… |
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Das Schloß
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Franz Kafka |
The Castle (original title: "Das Schloß") is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounter… |
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Brideshead Revisited
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Evelyn Waugh |
The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, *Brideshead Revisited* looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the… |
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Los Pazos de Ulloa
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Emilia Pardo Bazán |
The House of Ulloa is Emilia Pardo Bazan's masterpiece and the work that most accurately expresses the ideals of French Naturalism. The story is that of a rural aristocratic Galician family and its d… |
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Nova Atlantis
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Francis Bacon |
**New Atlantis** is an incomplete utopian novel by Sir Francis Bacon, published posthumously in 1626. It appeared unheralded and tucked into the back of a longer work of natural history, *Sylva sylva… |
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The Rainbow
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David Herbert Lawrence |
(Brangwen Family #1)
Lush with imagery, this is the story of three generations of Brangwen women living during the decline of English rural life. Banned upon publication, it explores the most tab… |
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A Christmas Carol
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Charles Dickens |
An allegorical novella descibing the rehabilitation of bitter, miserly businessman Ebenezer Scrooge. The reader is witness to his transformation as Scrooge is shown the error of his ways by the ghost… |
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Old New York (False Dawn / New Year's Day / Old Maid / Spark)
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Edith Wharton |
Contains:
False dawn --
The old maid --
The spark --
New Year's Day. |
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