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The Good Soldier
Ford Madox Ford
Hardcover (Gardners Books, Aug. 31, 1991)This is the story of fatal attraction and its consequences. The American narrator's highly-strung wife falls for his bluff, inarticulate English friend. Retrospectively piecing the story together, the betrayed and now widowed husband puzzles over the mysteries of the affair.
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A Book of Nonsense
Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll
Paperback (J M Dent & Sons Ltd, May 1, 1984)A Book of Nonsense (Everyman's Classics) (Paperback)
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Little Men
Louisa May Alcott, Frank Merrill
Hardcover (Gardners Books, Aug. 31, 1995)Written as a sequel to Little Women, and as a tribute to the teaching theories of Alcott''s father, the s tory is set in a school in Plumfield, run by Jo and her Germ an husband. The novel charts the reactions of the children t o their teaching methods. '
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The Bostonians
Henry James, Christopher Butler
Hardcover (Everyman's Library, May 15, 1992)The Bostonians (Everyman's Library Classics) - James, Henry - Everyman
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Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Hardcover (Gardners Books, Oct. 31, 1992)First published in 1958, this is the story of a "strong" man whose life is dominated by fear and anger. It is also a social document, recounting the impact of colonialism and Christianity on the life of an African tribe - the Ibo - in turn-of-the-century Nigeria.
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Apple Pie and Traditional Nursery Rhymes
Kate Greenaway
Hardcover (Everyman's Library, Oct. 24, 2002)None
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Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Hardcover (Heron Books, March 15, 1967)None
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude
Hardcover (Gardners Books, March 31, 1992)Anna Karenina is the story of a woman who ab andons her empty existence as a society wife and embarks on a doomed love affair with the passionate but emotionally ban krupt Vronsky. It is widely acknowledged as the greatest nov el in any language '
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Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens
Hardcover (Gardners Books, Oct. 31, 1992)When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond
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Anne of Green Gables
L.M. Montgomery, M.A. Claus
Hardcover (Gardners Books, Aug. 31, 1995)The appeal of this Canadian classic children ''s book is seemingly everlasting - for it is a story of an i ndividual making good by her own efforts, and orphaned girl sent to live with an elderly brother and sister who really w ant a boy to help on the farm. '
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Jude The Obscure
Thomas Hardy
Hardcover (Everyman's Library, Nov. 26, 1992)Hardy's last novel is the story of a young working man destroyed by the partial fulfilment of his dreams. He is torn between his desires for the life of the body and the life of the mind, as represented by two women - the vulgar but lustrous Arabella and the refined and frigid Sue.
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Mary Barton
Elizabeth Gaskell
Hardcover (Everyman's Library, June 16, 1994)Published in 1848, MARY BARTON was the first novel of Elizabeth Gaskell, later to become celebrated as the author of CRANFORD, MARY BARTON - a better book than CRANFORD - was written after she has married a Manchester clergyman, and it combines a typically sturdy romantic plot with striking descriptions of working people and their lives as she had encountered them in northern mills. Despite this grim setting, the book has all this author's well-known charm and considerable power to involve the reader in the lives of her characters. More accessible than George Eliot, less frenzied than Charlotte Bronte, Mrs Gaskell is a novelist whose wit, human warmth and sharp eye for detail bring ordinary experience to vivid life.