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Thomas Hardy (18401928) was an English novelist and poet Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric archintriguer Miss Aldclyffe On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes under the influence of Miss Aldclyffe's fascinating, manipulative steward Manston...

Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder Through the course of the novel fathers and sons become opposed, apprentices plot against their masters and Protestants clash with Catholics on the streets...

Dickens' genifor creating eccentric yet entirely captivating characters found its fullest expression in his third novel, Nicholas Nickleby, published in 1839 The narrative follows Nicholas as he escapes from the influence of his villainouncle and the wicked schoolmaster Wackford Squeers, stumbles into a theatrical career, and pursues his fortune through numeroadventures...

F S Fitzgerald (18961940) was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age Embellished with the author's lyrical prose, "The Beautiful and Damned" is the story of Harvardeducated, aspiring aesthete Anthony Patch and his beautiful wife, Gloria, As they await the inheritance of his grandfather's fortune, their reckless marriage sways under the influence of alcohol and avarice...

The Dark Flower opens in 1880 with 18yearold undergraduate Mark studying art at Oxford, and ends 30 years later with Mark ostensibly happily married, yet torn between his wife and a beautiful teenage girl could still be delivered by the hand of a discreet manservant, and the residents of Piccadilly kept their horses stabled close by so that they could gallop down to Richmond for fresh air...

Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of bestloved, essential classics.'Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.'Set just before the Jacobite Rising in 1715, Scott drew upon the political and economic struggles leading up to the rebellion and the tumultuohistory of the Highlands in his classic adventure novel Rob Roy...

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre.This is an extraordinarily beautiful Indian princess and a white Englishman fall in love but suffer deeply because of their feelings...

Thomas Hardy (18401928) was an English novelist and poet In the novel "Two On A Tower" Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful Swithin St Cleeve...

Henry James (18431916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism This brilliant satire of the women's rights movement in America...

Henry James (18431916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism "The American" is an uneasy combination of social comedy and melodrama concerning the adventures and misadventures of Christopher Newman...

Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but when they find that duty has gradually replaced affection, they agree to break off the engagement...

Theodore Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice andagency...

The novel Wyandotte arrived at a time when a patriotic mythology about the American Revolution was developing, and Cooper's somber tale of the sufferings of an isolated family in upstate New York during the Revolution was not congruent with the celebratory stories then being told...

Henry James (18431916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism "The Outcry" is an effervescent comedy of money and manners...

Nathaniel Hawthorne (18041864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer This is a collection of essays, based on Hawthorne's stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were the first published in the form of a series of travel papers for "The Atlantic Monthly"...

A fallen woman would seem a lessthanideal choice for a Victorian heroine Elizabeth Gaskell courageously created just such a portrait in her Ruth Overturning the conventional assumption that a woman once seduced is condemned to exclusion from respectable society, Gaskell draws a heroine whose emotional honesty, innate morality, and the love she shares with her illegitimate son are sufficient for redemption...

It is the story of one unremarkable steamship captain, pitted against a storm of incredible fury Captain Macwhirr has a reputation as a solid, steadfast man, who "having just enough imagination to carry him through each successive day, and no more" cannot fully believe any storm would be a match for his powerful ship...

James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century.His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature.The Oak Openings; or, The Bee Hunter focuses on the activities of professional honeyhunter Benjamin Boden, nicknamed "Ben Buzz"...

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