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Victorian Tales: The Fabulous Flyer
Helen Flook Terry Deary
Paperback (A & C Black Children's, Aug. 16, 2001)Fabulous Flyer
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Sea Monsters
Terry Deary
Paperback (A&C Black, April 1, 2012)It's 1838, and Patrick and Grace Leary are aboard The Sirius, set to become the first ever ship to sail from Dublin to New York using only steam power. But their cousin Ben is on board Brunel's giant steam ship the Great Western in Bristol, and he's convinced he'll be in New York before them. With fires causing havoc, Brunel getting injured and one ship running out of coal, which steam driven sea monster has the power to win this dangerous race?
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Victorian Tales: Terror on the Train
Terry Deary
Paperback (A&C Black, Feb. 2, 2012)England, June 1865. A train speeds along the railway line. Its passengers include the great writer Charles Dickens. But up ahead, the track over the bridge has been taken up for repairs. Can young workman Tommy stop the train in time - or is it already too late?
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Dr Jekyll and MR Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson, Peter Joyce
2004 (Assembled Stories, Dec. 1, 2004)This dark psychological fantasy is more than a moral tale. It is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution and criminality and the secret lives behind Victorian propriety, to create a unique form of urban Gothic.
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New Grub Street
George Gissing
Audio CD (Assembled Stories, May 30, 2009)None
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Masterman Ready
Captain Marryat
Audio CD (Assembled Stories, )None
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Harry Heathcote of Bangoil
Anthony Trollope, Peter Joyce
Audio Cassette (Assembled Stories, )None
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The Frozen Deep
Wilkie Collins
Audio CD (Assembled Stories, Aug. 30, 2007)Exchanging vows of love with sailor Frank Aldersley the night before his departure, Clara Burnham is haunted by the memory of Richard Wardour, and his mistaken belief that they will one day marry. On different ships, the two men have no cause to meet - until disaster strikes and they find themselves united by their battle for survival.
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VICTORIAN: PUSS IN BOOTS
Comus
Paperback (Aladdin, Jan. 1, 1991)Book by Comus
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The Prisoner of Zenda
Anthony Hope
Audio CD (Assembled Stories, March 30, 2008)'The Prisoner of Zenda' is the story of an Englishman who travels to the small European state of Ruritania where he impersonates the ruler and falls in love with the ruler's love, Princess Flavia.
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Hard Times
Charles Dickens
Audio CD (Assembled Stories, Sept. 30, 2007)'Hard Times' is Dickens's portrait of a Lancashire mill town in the 1840s. Through the characters of Gradgrind & Bounderby he examines the ethos of 19th century industrialization which allows human beings to be enslaved to machines.
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Victorian Tales 32 - The Last Time In Paris.
Manuel Barreiros
Paperback (Independently published, Jan. 18, 2019)AS IT IS KNOWN,CAPTAIN ALFRED DREYFUS, AN ALSATIAN JEWISH IN THE FRENCH ARMY, WAS CONDEMNED FOR HIGH TREASON ,FOR PASSING SECRET DOCUMENTS TO THE GERMANS ,AND DEPORTED TO THE DEVIL'S ISLANDS. WHAT IS NOT KNOWN ,IS THAT CAPTAIN DREYFUS ,BEFORE HE WAS ARRESTED,SUBMITTED A REPORT WHERE HE INDICATED ALL THE ILLUMINATI MEMBERS THAT WERE IN THE HIGH ECHELONS OF THE FRENCH ARMY.HE WAS ARRESTED AS SOON AS HE GAVE THE REPORT TO HIS SUPERIOR OFFICER,MAJOR HENRY,ONE OF THE ILLUMINATI.MARION SHUSTER AND VON KULOV ,FROM THE GERMAN SECRET SERVICE,CONTACTED SIFNEY OREBAR AND MOIRA HUNTER FROM THE BRITISH ONE,ASND DECIDIDED TOGETHER TO CATCH THE ILUMINATI AND ILLIBATE CAPTAIN DREYFUS.A VERY DIFFICULT BATTLE BEGAN...