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Bleak House
Esther, the illegitimate child of lady dedlock and captain hawdon, is the ward of mr. jarndyce and lives with him at bleak house.
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An Inspector Calls And Other Plays
An inspector calls, the title play in this collection, was written inside a week in 1944. inspector goole, investigating a girl’s death, calls on the birlings, an outwardly virtuous household.
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Lady Audley’s Secret
The popular 1860’s melodrama about a young girl’s all-consuming hatred of her father and stepmother.
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Vanity Fair
Vanity fair, thackeray’s panoramic, satirical saga of corruption at all levels of english society, was published in 1847 but set during the napoleonic wars. it chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: becky sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals; and her schoolmate amelia sedley, a typically naive victorian heroine, the pampered daughter of a wealthy family. becky’s fluctuating fortunes eventually bring her to an affair with amelia’s dissolute husband; when he is killed at waterloo, amelia and her child are left penniless, while becky and her husband rawdon crawley rise in the world, managing to lead a high life in london solely on the basis of their shrewdness. (the chapter entitled “how to live on nothing” is a classic.) thackeray’s subtitle, “a novel without a hero,” is understating the case; his view of humanity in this novel is distinctly bleak and deliberately antiheroic. critics of the time misunderstood the book, decrying it as (among other things) vicious, vile, and odious. but vanity fair has endured as one of the great comic novels of all time, and a landmark in the history of realism in fiction.
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Persuasion
This complete and unabridged edition contains a biography of the author and a new introduction and afterword. anne falls in love with wentworth, who had nothing but himself to recommend him, and no hopes of attaining influence, so persuaded by friends and family she breaks off the match and sends him away. years later, he returns, is it too late?
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The Bookseller Of Kabul
In spring 2002 award-winning journalist asne seierstad spent four months living with the bookseller and his family. as seierstad steps back from the page and lets the khans tell their stories, we learn of proposals and marriages, hope and fear, crime and punishment. the result is a unique portrait of a family and a country.
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The Godfather
A modern masterpiece,the godfather is a searing portrayal of the 1940s criminal underworld. it is also the intimate story of the corleone family, at once drawn together and ripped apart by its unique position at the core of the american mafia.
