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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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Novels (Great Expectations / Oliver Twist / Tale of Two Cities)
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Charles Dickens |
Contains:
- [Great Expectations](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8721462W)
- [Oliver Twist](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8193478W)
- [Tale of Two Cities](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL87… |
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Hotel du Lac
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Anita Brookner |
Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. S… |
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The Eleventh Commandment
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Jeffrey Archer |
Connor Fitzgerald has an impressive resume. Military hero. Devoted family man. Servant of his country—as an assassin. Just as he's about to put his twenty-eight-year career at the CIA behind him, he … |
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The Daydreamer
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Ian McEwan |
An imaginative ten-year-old boy, who is best understood by his family, recounts some of the adventures he has while daydreaming. |
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The good shepherd
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C. S. Forester |
The mission of Commander George Krause of the United States Navy is to protect a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships making their way across the icy North Atlantic from America to England. There, t… |
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El Libro de la selva / The Jungle Book
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Classic Reads,Michael Page,Clapton Commons Clapton Commons Publishing,Brigitte Juanals,Rudyard Kipling,Norman Nodel,Carl Bowen,Louis Fabulet,Karl Simrock,Liz Miles,Maurice Wilson,Nicola Butler,Gwen Keraval,Brigitte Zaugg,Dave Gibbons,Gerardo Sandoval,Jessica Swale,Nik Marcel,Benny Fuentes,Alex Fabrizio,Francisca Marquez,John Lockwood Kipling,Giovanni Pota,Rafael Mayani,Joe Stilgoe,Virginie Clauzel,Janice Greene,Robert d'Humieres,Stéphane Mourgues,Geneviève Debeuré-De Jongh,Jean-Claude Henryot,Stéphane Mourgues,Geneviève Debeuré-De Jongh,Jean-Claude Henryot,Aberdeen Press |
The adventures of Mowgli, a man-child raised by wolves in the jungle, have captured the imaginations not just of children, but of all readers, for generations. |
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A literature of their own
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Elaine Showalter |
A LITERATURE OF THEIR OWN quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies that transformed the field in the 1980s. Launching a major new area for literary investigation,… |
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Treasure Island
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is an adventure tale known for its atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality — as se… |
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Overload
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Arthur Hailey |
In the middle of a sweltering July heat wave that has no end in sight, California’s Golden State Power and Light is on overload. An emergency brownout is already in effect. Then, GSP&L’s newest and l… |
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The Return of the King
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
THE RETURN OF THE KING, which brings to a close the great epic of war and adventure begun in The Fellowship of the Ring and continued in The Two Towers, is the third and final part of J. R. R. Tolkie… |
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Gentian Hill
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Elizabeth Goudge |
Novel set in England at the time of Napoleonic Wars. They met as children... Unable to bear the prospect of life at sea, young Anthony O'Connell deserts his ship at Torquay and escapes into the Devon… |
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When We Were Orphans
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Kazuo Ishiguro |
'You seldom read a novel that so convinces you it is extending the possibilities of fiction.' Sunday TimesEngland, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cas… |
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Carrie
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Stephen King |
The story of misfit high-school girl, Carrie White, who gradually discovers that she has telekinetic powers. Repressed by a domineering, ultra-religious mother and tormented by her peers at school, h… |
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