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By: Edith Wharton
ISBN: 9781626860568
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
Publisher: Canterbury Classics
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We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
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By: James Henry
ISBN: 9781784287030
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Ltd
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By: Kate Chopin
ISBN: 9781684122943
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Silver Dolphin Books
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A collection of transformative stories that emphasize women's roles in society.
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By: Kate Chopin
ISBN: 9781840225846
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 15th September 2015
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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Widely censured at the time of its publication in 1899, Kate Chopin's The Awakening is an evocative story of self-discovery and female emancipation that has since become one of the most popular classics in the American canon.
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By: Jeremias Gotthelf
ISBN: 9781847494535
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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After one of their own people repeatedly fails to live up to a pact with the Devil, a petty and morally bankrupt village community is terrorized by a succession of deadly black spiders.
(Hardback)
By: Ernest Bramah
ISBN: 9780008297435
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The classic crime novel featuring blind detective Max Carrados, whose popularity rivalled that of Sherlock Holmes, complete with a new introduction and an extra short story.
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By: Jack London
ISBN: 9781626864665
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Canterbury Classics
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These powerful, classic Jack London stories demonstrate the will to survive.
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By: Hector Hugh Munro
ISBN: 9781853260711
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1993
UK Publication Date: 5th September 1993
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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The extraordinary stories of 'Saki' are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which the stupidities and hypocrisy of conventional society are viciously pilloried.
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By: E.F. Benson
ISBN: 9781840226737
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2011
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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Outrageously pretentious, hypocritical and snobbish, Queen Lucia, 'as by right divine' rules over the toy kingdom of 'Riseholme' based on the Cotswold village of Broadway. Her long-suffering husband Pepino is 'her prince-consort', the outrageously camp Georgie is her 'gentleman-in-waiting', and the village green is her 'parliament'.
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By: E.F. Benson
ISBN: 9781840226744
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2011
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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These three wonderful comic novels drolly record the battle between Lucia and Elisabeth Mapp for social and cultural supremacy in the village of Tilling (based on Rye).
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By: John Buchan
ISBN: 9781840226553
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
UK Publication Date: 5th July 2010
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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Here are all five of the adventures featuring Richard Hannay, the hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps.
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By: Alexandre Dumas
ISBN: 9781435171541
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Sterling Juvenile
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By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
ISBN: 9781847496812
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
UK Publication Date: 15th December 2016
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Inspired by Gogol's surreal tales, Dostoevsky's hilarious story has been interpreted by some as a vitriolic piece of social criticism and a veiled attack on the revolutionary philosopher Nikolai Chernyshevsky.
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By: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN: 9781933633541
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
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By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9781612192208
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
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"First published June 1922 in the The Smart Set...; First published in volume form in the 1922 short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age"--T.p. verso.
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By: George Grossmith
ISBN: 9781853262012
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1994
UK Publication Date: 5th May 1994
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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The diary is that of someone who acknowledges that he is not a "somebody" - Charles Pooter, a clerk in the city of London, chronicles with often hilarious detail the everyday life of the lower middle classes during the great Victorian Age.
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By: John Galsworthy
ISBN: 9781840224382
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2002
UK Publication Date: 5th January 2002
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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The Forsyte Saga comprises of The Man of Property, In Chancery and To Let, produced in a single volume.
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By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN: 9781785996283
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Ltd
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By: Ford Madox Ford
ISBN: 9781847494955
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 15th September 2015
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Thoroughly edited and extensively annotated, this edition of The Good Soldier tells the stories of two outwardly happy couples who meet at a health spa in Germany just before the start of the First World War.
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By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9781853260414
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1992
UK Publication Date: 5th May 1992
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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A summary of the "roaring twenties", and a expose of the "Jazz Age", this book, through the narration of Nick Carraway, takes the reader into the world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Nick's cousin Daisy, her brash but wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him.
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By: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9780141397153
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Includes stories from Sketches by Boz: 'The Great Winglebury Duel' and 'Bloomsbury Christening.'
(Paperback)
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN: 9781784046439
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Ltd
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(Paperback, New edition)
By: Edith Wharton
ISBN: 9781840224191
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2002
UK Publication Date: 5th February 2002
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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The heroine of this novel is Lily Bart, whose goal is to secure a rich husband who can sustain her lifestyle. She operates in a world where social position is important, but money can buy it. Lily is redeemed by her clear view of the corrupt society which is her gilded cage.
