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North and South (Gaskell, E.C.)
Follows the story of the heroine's movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England to the north. This book uses a love story to show how personal and public lives were woven together in a industrial society. It…
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Mary Barton (Gaskell, E.C.)
Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel depicts the great clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-19th century. Mary Barton was published in 1848, at a time of great…
€ 3,³⁵
Cranford & Selected Short Stories (Gaskell, E.C.)
Contains six of her finest stories that have been selected to demonstrate the variety and accomplishment of her shorter fiction, and to trace the development of her art.
€ 3,³⁵
The Forsyte Saga (Galsworthy, J.)
The Forsyte Saga comprises of The Man of Property, In Chancery and To Let, produced in a single volume.
€ 3,³⁵
The Good Soldier (Ford, F.M.)
Set before the First World War, this title tells the tale of two wealthy and sophisticated couples, one English, one American, as they travel, socialise, and take the waters in the spa towns of Europe.
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This Side of Paradise / The Beautiful and Damned (Fitzgerald, F.S.)
This Side of Paradise was Fitzgerald's first novel, and its instant success made him famous. The Beautiful and Damned was Fitzgerald's second novel, and describes the beginning of what became known as 'The Jazz Age'.
€ 3,³⁵
Diamond as Big as the Ritz & Other Stories (Fitzgerald, F.S.)
Includes stories such as: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, The Cut-Glass Bowl, May Day, The Rich Boy, Crazy Sunday, An Alcoholic Case, The Lees of Happiness, The Lost Decade and Babylon Revisited.
€ 3,³⁵
Tom Jones (Fielding, H.)
Tom Jones is the ward of a liberal Somerset squire. He is a generous but slightly wild and feckless country boy with a weakness for young women. Misfortune, followed by many spirited adventures as he travels to London to seek his…
€ 3,³⁵
Silas Marner (Eliot, G.)
Tells the story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner - a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe in the agricultural heartland of England - and how he is restored to life by the unlikely means of the orphan child Eppie.
€ 3,³⁵
Mill on the Floss (Eliot, G.)
As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into womanhood, the deep love which she has for her brother Tom turns into conflict, because she cannot reconcile his bourgeois standards with her own lively intelligence. This story shows…
€ 3,³⁵
Middlemarch (Eliot, G.)
An analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate. This title includes a host of other paradigm…
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Daniel Deronda (Eliot, G.)
Follows lives of the beautiful but spoiled Gwendolene Harleth and selfless yet alienated Daniel Deronda, as they search for personal and vocational fulfilment and sympathetic relationship. Set in the degenerate English…
€ 3,³⁵
Adam Bede (Eliot, G.)
Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the eighteenth century, this book relates a story of seduction issuing in 'the inward suffering which is the worst form of Nemesis'.
€ 3,³⁵
Twenty Years After (Dumas, A.)
D'Artaganan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis reunite to fight the forces of evil. They need to face the vengeful Mordaunt, the son of Milady, as well as countering the machinations of the sinister Cardinal Mazarin.
€ 3,³⁵
Three Musketeers (Dumas, A.)
Under the watchful eye of their patron M de Treville, D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis defend the honour of the regiment against the guards of Cardinal Richelieu, and the honour of the queen against the machinations of the…
€ 3,³⁵