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3) Howards End
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To illuminate the changing times, Forster throws together three vastly dissimilar classes of people: the Schlegels, Helen and Margaret, educated, compassionate and independently wealthy; the Wilcoxes, nouveau riche Empire builders; and Leonard Bast, an ambitious but struggling bank clerk. When impetuous Helen Schlegel believes herself to be in love with Paul, the youngest of the Wilcox sons, she sparks off a connection between the two families that...
4) Jane Eyre
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In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.
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Relates the experiences of Bathsheba Everdene as she is courted and married to three different men. Bathsheba Everdene and the three men who love her move through a beautifully realized late nineteenth-century agrarian landscape, still almost untouched by the industrial revolution, and the encroachment of modern life. Takes place in Wessex in the 1840s.
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The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
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Everyman's library volume 148
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This is the story of a common field laborer, Michael Henshard, who becomes a leader in a small market town and then through his own failure sinks back miserably to his humble beginnings.
8) Hard times
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Hard Times, by Charles Dickens, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
9) Emma
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Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others.
10) Come to grief
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Sid Halley novels volume 3
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1995
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Retired jockey Sid Halley is stunned by a suicide that disrupts the racketeering trial in which he as about to testify.
11) Moll Flanders
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As Moll Flanders rises from the infamous Newgate Prison to fame, wealth, and respectability, Moll comes to embody all the excess and vitality of an era.
12) The proposal
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Survivors' Club septet volume 1
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2012
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Believing her romantic prospects are over after losing her husband in an accident and suffering a fall that leaves her with a limp, young Lady Gwendoline strives to be happy for others and finds an unexpected second chance at love.
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Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 8
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Simon Serrailler is called upon to work a case in the seemingly idyllic cathedral town of Lafferton as part of a dangerous undercover operation.
17) The cat-nappers
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Blackstone AudioBooks
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p1996
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4 CDs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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In this gripping child-in-danger story, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and her partner, Inspector Thomas Lynley, investigate the kidnapping of a friend's little girl from an Italian marketplace. With both her job and the life of a little girl on the line, Barbara must decide what matters most, and how far she's willing to go to protect it.
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Inspector Lamb novels volume 2
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Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Lamb risks his life to uncover links between a series of killings from the past and present in a Hampshire village brimming with dark secrets.
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2011
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Lori Shepherd's debonair father-in-law has moved to town and is renovating Fairworth House, a grand estate nearby. But once things get truly peculiar at Fairworth--moving furniture, strange sounds, and mysterious visitors--Lori calls on Aunt Dimity for her otherworldly guidance.
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