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1) Howards End
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The self-interested disregard of a dying woman's bequest, an impulsive girl's attempt to help an impoverished clerk, and the marriage between an idealist and a materialist — all intersect at a Hertfordshire estate called Howards End. The fate of this beloved country home symbolizes the future of England itself in E. M. Forster's exploration of social, economic, and philosophical trends, as exemplified by three families: the Schlegels, symbolizing...
Author
Series
Daughters of Mannerling volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
151 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The haughty Beverley girls are left improverished when their father gambles away his possessions and fortune. The daughters now feel it is their sister Isabella's duty to marry someone who will buy their beloved home back for them.
3) Bleak House
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed. Bleak House defies a single description. It...
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