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Jane Eyre
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Charlotte Brontë |
The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where s… |
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The Exile
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Pearl S. Buck |
The Exile is a memoir/biography about Pearl Buck's mother, Caroline Stulting Sydenstricker (1857–1921), describing her life growing up in West Virginia and life in China as the wife of the Presbyteri… |
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Sans famille
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Hector Malot |
An eight-year-old boy becomes a homeless wanderer when the man he thought was his father sells him to a traveling entertainer. |
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Xiao ai ren yu xie jiang =
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Henriette Barkow |
A retelling of the Grimm fairytale of the poor shoemaker who becomes successful with the help of two elves who finish his shoes during the night. |
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Les trois mousquetaires
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Alexandre Dumas,Auguste Maquet |
During the reign of France's King Louis XIV, D'Artagnan and three musketeers unite to defend the honor of Anne of Austria against the plots of Cardinal Richeliu. |
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La porte étroite
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Blanca Torrents,Dorothy Bussy,André Gide |
Two cousins who have loved each other since infancy find the devotion of the years ripening into a love whose mysterious force leaves them embarrased in each other's presence. |
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The Sound and the Fury
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William Faulkner |
In many ways this was an experimental novel, using several differing narrative styles. Divided into four parts, the author relates the same episodes from four different viewpoints, using a different … |
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