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Anne of Green Gables & Anne of Avonlea (Montgomery, L.)
When the Cuthberts send to the orphanage for a boy to help them at their farm Green Gables, they are astonished when a talkative little girl steps off the train. Anne, an incurable romantic causes chaos at Green Gables and at the…
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Best Short Stories (Maupassant, G.)
Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in theme and tone, ranging from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce.
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Collected Short Stories (Mansfield, K.)
This collection allows the reader to become familiar with the complete range of Mansfield's work from the early, satirical stories set in Bavaria, through the luminous recollections of her childhood in New Zealand, and through the…
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The Sea-Wolf (London, J.)
The Sea-Wolf belongs in the honorific tradition of American sea fiction where the voyage motif became a means of exploring the meaning of life.
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Call of the Wild & White Fang (London, J.)
The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories.
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Women in Love (Lawrence, D.H.)
The 'progress' of the modern industrialised world had led to the carnage of the First World War. What, then, did it mean to call ourselves 'human'? What are the definitive forms of our relationships - love, marriage, family,…
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Sons and Lovers (Lawrence, D.H.)
A semi-autobiographical novel that explores the emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and the suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different lovers. It is a pre-Freudian exploration of…
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Rainbow (Lawrence, D.H.)
Explains about three generations of the Brangwen family of Nottinghamshire from the 1840s to the early years of the twentieth century. This framework is with the passional lives of author's characters as he explores the pressures…
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Man Who Would Be King & Other Stories (Kipling, R.)
This anthology of tales by Rudyard Kipling contains some of the most memorable and popular examples of the genre of which he is an undisputed master
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Kim (Kipling, R.)
This novel tells the story of Kimball O'Hara (Kim), who is the orphaned son of a soldier in the Irish regiment stationed in India during the British Raj. It describes Kim's life and adventures from street vagabond, to his adoption…
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Jungle Book & Second Jungle Book (Kipling, R.)
Contains stories of Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. This title tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and…
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Best Short Stories (Kipling, R.)
The diverse tales selected for this volume display the astonishing virtuosity of Rudyard Kipling's early writings
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam [Trans. FitzGerald] (Khayyam, O.)
Presents the free translation of the Persian poem by the 12th century astronomer and poet - Omar Khayyam. Its colourful imagery appealed to the Victorian age's fascination with the Orient, while its sensual warmth acted as a…
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The Essential Kafka (Kafka, F.)
Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka's world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. Kafka deals in dark and quirkily humorous terms with the insoluble dilemmas of a world which…
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Three Men in a Boat & Three Men on the Bummel (Jerome, J.K.)
This comic novel describes the boating expedition on the Thames of three friends and their dog, Montmerency. The difficulties and vicissitudes of these innocents abroad are magnified to epic proportions, and give the book an air…
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