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2) The rainbow
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Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
The story of three generations of a Nottingham family whose love affairs move backward and forward across the years.
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Series
Language
English
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Beloved and bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith lends his delightful touch to the Austen classic, Emma. Prepare to meet a young woman who thinks she knows everything. Fresh from university, Emma Woodhouse arrives home in Norfolk ready to embark on adult life with a splash. Not only has her sister, Isabella, been whisked away on a motorbike to London, but her astute governess, Miss Taylor is at a loose end watching as Mr. Woodhouse worries about...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 28
[A modern library giant]
Great books of the Western World volume 37
Modern Library college editions volume T15
[A modern library giant]
Great books of the Western World volume 37
Modern Library college editions volume T15
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
A foundling of mysterious parentage, Tom Jones is brought up by the benevolent and wealthy Squire Allworthy as his own son. Tom falls in love with the beautiful and unattainable Sophia Western, a neighbor's daughter, whose marriage has already been arranged. When Tom's sexual misadventures around the countryside get him banished, he sets out to make his fortune and find his true identity. Against the vivid background of eighteenth-century London,...
6) The warden
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English
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Reverent Septimus Harding is wardne of the alms-house at Barchester providing charity for twelves of the town's neediest and an income for himself to the town's way of thinking. John Bold, even though he is in love with the Reverend's daughter, decides to look into this apparent misuse of church funds.
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Pub. Date
2012
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English
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"Winn Van Meter is heading for his family's retreat on the pristine New England island of Waskeke. Normally a haven of calm, for the next three days this sanctuary will be overrun by tipsy revelers as Winn prepares for the marriage of his daughter Daphne to the affable young scion Greyson Duff. Winn's wife, Biddy, has planned the wedding with military precision, but arrangements are sideswept by a storm of salacious misbehavior and intractable lust:...
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English
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Anthony Trollope was well aware that the seemingly parochial power struggles that determine the action of Barchester Towers -- struggles whose comic possibilities he exploits to hilarious effect -- actually went to the heart of mid-Victorian English society, and had, in other times and other guises, led to civil war and constitutional upheaval. This awareness heightens the comedy and intensifies the drama in this magnificent novel and it transforms...
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Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (ca. 9 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices--those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal--that details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment.
When a sex scandal breaks out at a New England boarding...
11) Cranford
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
"Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Gaskell's best known work is set in a small rural town, inhabited largely by women. This is a community that runs on cooperation and gossip, at the very heart of which are the daughters of the former rector:...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 252
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A 1934 satirization of a segment of English society in which all the characters have money but few other qualities to recommend them.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 2
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[1982]
Physical Desc
1493 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
14) Moll Flanders
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c1991
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 338 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows the heroine's adventures from seventeenth-century England to the American colonies.
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Series
Language
English
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The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth. The sorrows of Nell and her grandfather are offset by Dickens's creation of a dazzling contemporary world inhabited by some of his most brilliantly drawn characters-the eloquent ne'er-do-well Dick Swiveller; the hungry maid known as the "Marchioness";...
16) Hard Times
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Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Mr. Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster in Cokestown, a northern English village beset by industrialism, runs his family and his school with a rigid adherence to facts, but his daughter's loveless marriage, his son's involvement with gambling and robbery, and his encounters with a variety of characters, force him to recognize the value of the human heart.
17) My man Jeeves
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English
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This is the first of the delightful fictional adventures featuring Bertie Wooster, vacuous young man about town, and his omnipresent butler Jeeves, to whom Bertie must turn to save him from many errors of judgment and understanding.
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English
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Story of Egdon Heath and Eustacia Vye in late nineteenth century Wessex, England. Guy Fawkes night, Diggory Venn, a reddleman dyed red from his trade, transports a young woman, Thomasin Yeobright, to her aunt's house on Egdon Heath. Despite Venn's love for the sweet-natured Thomasin, he agrees to secure the man of her choice, the fickle innkeeper Damon Wildeve, who delayed his marriage to Thomasin earlier that day. Wildeve is still enchanted by the...
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Series
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c1991
Physical Desc
xlviii, 472 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A ne'er-do-well exploits his gentle daughter's beauty for social advancement in this masterpiece of tragic fiction. Hardy's 1891 novel defied convention to focus on the rural lower class for a frank treatment of sexuality and religion. Then and now, his sympathetic portrait of a victim of Victorian hypocrisy offers compelling reading.
20) Dearly beloved
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Series
Publisher
Zebra books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
440 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
A sheltered life in the countryside has left Diana Lindsay restless to see the wider world, for both herself and the son she is raising alone. She cannot marry, but perhaps as a courtesan she will find love and protection despite her painful past. Gathering her courage, she moves to London--and finds herself the city's most desired woman, as admired for her charm as for her beauty. But it is one man who captivates her--handsome, haunted, and harboring...
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