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John Galsworthy (18671933) was an English novelist and playwright This volume includes wonderful stories like "The First and The Last", "A Stoic", "The Apple Tree", "The Juryman" and "Indian Summer of a Forsyte"...

F S Fitzgerald (18961940) was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age "Taps at Reveille" is a collection of brilliant short stories : "The Scandal Detectives", "The Freshest Boy", "He Thinks He's Wonderful", "The Captured Shadow", "The Perfect Life", "First Blood", "A Nice Quiet Place", "A Woman with a Past", "Crazy Sunday", "Two Wrongs", "The Night of Chancellorsville" and many others...

Maggie Browne, the daughter of a deceased clergyman, is encouraged to give up her own life and passions and devote herself to her brother Edward Through the example and guidance of her mother, who dotes on Edward constantly, a young woman learns that selfsacrifice is the key to living a fulfilled life...

Thomas Hardy (18401928) was an English novelist and poet Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him...

An American Tragedy is the story of the corruption and destruction of one man, Clyde Griffiths, who forfeits his life in desperate pursuit of success The novel represents a massive portrayal of the society whose values both shape Clyde's tawdry ambitions and seal his fate : It is an unsurpassed depiction of the harsh realities of American life and of the dark side of the American Dream...

Thomas Hardy (18401928) was an English novelist and poet Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins, launching a brilliant career as a society poet in London Turning the maledominated literary world to her advantage, she happily exploits the attentions of four very different suitors...

Henry James (18431916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism "The Portrait of a Lady" is the awesome story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer...

This richly varied collection of observation, fancy and fiction shows the London he knew so intimately at its best and worst its streets, theatres, inns, pawnshops, law courts, prisons, omnibuses and the river Thames in honest and visionary descriptions of everyday life and people...

David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy & impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble yet treacheroUriah Heep; frivoloenchanting Dora...

The "Genius" is Theodore Dreiser's autobiographical novel about the turnofthecentury art scene It explores the multiple conflicts between art and business, art and marriage, and between traditional and modern views of sexual morality...

Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and the secrets of her origin, the sleuthing of Detective Inspector Bucket and the fate of Jo the crossingsweeper, these are some of the lives Dickens invokes to portray London society, rich and poor, as no other novelist has done...

Thomas Hardy (18401928) was an English novelist and poet This is Hardy's powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is also an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a closeknit Dorsetshire town...

Thomas Hardy (18401928) was an English novelist and poet The daughter of a wealthy railway magnate, Paula Power inherits De Stancy Castle, an ancient castle in need of modernization...

An American Tragedy is the story of the corruption and destruction of one man, Clyde Griffiths, who forfeits his life in desperate pursuit of success The novel represents a massive portrayal of the society whose values both shape Clyde's tawdry ambitions and seal his fate : It is an unsurpassed depiction of the harsh realities of American life and of the dark side of the American Dream...

Henry James (18431916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism Roderick Hudson, egotistical, beautiful and an exceptionally gifted sculptor...

Henry James (18431916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism "The Tragic Muse" is wide, cheerful panorama of English life follows the fortunes of two wouldbe artists : Nick Dormer, who throws over a political career in his efforts to become a painter, and Miriam Rooth, an actress striving for artistic and commercial success...

John Galsworthy (18671933) was an English novelist and playwright The part of "The Forsyte Chronicles" tells about a new generation that has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions...

Rudyard Kipling (18651936) was an English journalist, shortstory writer, poet, and novelist Kate Sheriff, a young American woman, knew without a shadow of a doubt what her calling was...

The Mudfog Papers, a collection of sketches by Charles Dickens, describes the local politics of the fictional town of Mudfog such as thedelusions of grandeur of its mayor Nicholas Tulrumble and his disastroattempts at putting on a public show and the meetings of its Society for the Advancement of Everything, during which the town is overrun by illustrioscientists and professors conducting ostensibly pointless research...

Nathaniel Hawthorne (18041864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer He also wrote great stories for children based on Greek myth and legend...