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Offers an account of the wanderings of a young man who leaves home after a row with his father, and who eventually finds love with the girl of his dreams.

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Rediscovered satirical work by one of the greatest satirists of the turn of the last century. Since mothers-in-law have always been misunderstood and no one has ever taken up their side of the argument properly, Jane is determined to set the record straight and plead the cause of the most maligned race on the face of the earth.

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Together with Voltaire, Diderot was a remarkable figure of the French Enlightenment, as a philosopher, journalist and novelist. In this book, a young girl's enforced enclosure in a convent gives Diderot the chance to explore themes such as religious hypocrisy and sexual repression.

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In nineteenth-century England, Dorthea Brooke's wishes to defy social conventions are inhibited by the strict nature of her surroundings.

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Features Dorothea Brooke; Dr Lydgate; spendthrift Fred Vincy; and steadfast Mary Garth. This book explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of modern changes.

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Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, published 1871-2, is set in the imaginary county of Loamshire during the years of unrest preceding the 1832 Reform Bill. With its complex plot, broad canvas and huge cast of characters, it has long been recognized as one of the few truly classic English novels.

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Mike is a seriously good cricketer who forms an unlikely alliance with old Etonian Psmith ('the P is silent') after they both find themselves fish out of water at a new school, Sedleigh, where they eventually overcome the hostility of others and their own prejudices to become stars.

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This charming story of the Jackson cricketing dynasty describes the adventures of Mike Jackson at boarding school as he makes his way up the sporting ladder to the first eleven.

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Originally serialized in issues of "The Christian Recorder" between 1886 and 1888, the three works contained in this text have been specially written for a black audience.

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Su Jishi, the adolescent son of the head of the Chinese traders' association, the men licensed to deal with foreign merchants in the port, is suddenly burdened with responsibility for his powerful family after his father's unexpected death.

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From Manhattan high-society to warn-torn France, Mirror Image is a compelling story about the mysterious bond between twin sisters.
Then, in the girls twenty-first year, as the First World War escalates overseas, a fateful choice changes their lives forever .

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The next Angela Thirkell novel in the hugely successful series of charming English comedies set in the fictional county of Barsetshire.

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Full of dark humour, wicked irony and razor sharp insight, this is one of the most intelligent and hilarious works of the 20th Century.

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Returning home to tend her widowed father Dr Marjoribanks, Lucilla soon launches herself into Carlingford society, aiming to raise the tone with her select Thursday evening parties. Optimistic, resourceful and blithely unimpeded by self-doubt, Lucilla is a superior being in every way, not least in relation to men.

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A humorous and quietly subversive 1930s gem, with a new introduction by Lucy Scholes

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"First published in the United States of America by Harper & Brothers 1851"--Title page verso.

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A story of the war between man and mammal, in which the author explores his obsessions with good and evil, love and solitude, speech and silence, using his technical knowledge of sailing and the sea to tell a story which is at once minutely realistic and powerfully symbolic.

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Melville's novel, with an introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick and illustrations by Rockwell Kent.

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These are the fortunes and misfortunes of Moll Flanders: born in Newgate Prison, twelve years a prostitute, five times a wife (once to her own brother), twelve years a thief and eight years a transported felon in Her Majesty's colony of Virginia.