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Candide
By Voltaire. 1759
This tale begins with the hero, Candide, being expelled from the Westphalian castle of Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh for making love to…
the Baron's daughter, Cunegonde. So begins a series of disastrous misadventures on a fantastic odyssey for Candide, Cunegonde and Dr Pangloss. 1759.Cousin Bette
By Honoré De Balzac. 1846
Set in Paris in the early 19th century, this is a story of family life and of the evil caused…
by the malicious Lisbeth, who masks frustration and bitterness behind a facade of goodwill. 1846.Around the world in eighty days (Books of wonder)
By Jules Verne. 1873
The extraordinary and wonderful adventures which befall Phileas Fogg and his servant Passepartout when they set out to win a…
bet by going round the world in eighty days. Originally published in 1873.Jude the obscure
By Thomas Hardy. 1895
Dramatizes the conflict between the carnal and the spiritual life of Jude Frawley, a stone mason's apprentice, who yearns to…
be a priest. A tale of doomed love and unfulfilled promise that revolves around Jude, his cousin Sue Bridehead and his academic mentor Phillotson. First published in 1895.Count of Monte Cristo
By Alexandre Dumas. 1909
Falsely condemned to life imprisonment, Dantes escapes to Monte Cristo and sets out to avenge himself on all who have…
wronged him. 1909. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.Huckleberry Finn
By Mark Twain. 1884
When Huckleberry Finn flees from his brutal father, he meets up with an old friend, the slave Jim, who is…
also running away. Together they travel by raft down the Mississippi, experiencing amazing adventures, and learning of the strange ways of people in the deep south. For Junior High readers. 1884.Old Goriot
By Ellen Marriage, Honoré De Balzac. 1834
Far from the madding crowd
By Thomas Hardy. 1874
Fathers and sons
By Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, C. J Hogarth. 1862
Conflict between two generations in Tsarist Russia, with the nihilist Bazarov representing the revolt of the young free-thinking intellectuals, embodying…
the spirit of revolution. Paul Petrovitch speaks for the older generation which accepts the need for gradual reform, up to a point. 1862.Madame Bovary (Oxford world's classics ; #4)
By Gustave Flaubert, Anita Brookner, Gerard Hopkins. 1857
A French novel renowned for its realistic picture of smalltown bourgeois life of an ambitious, ruthless wife who drives her…
doctor-husband to despair and destruction with her deceits and schemes. 1857. Uniform title: Madame Bovary.Daniel Deronda
By George Eliot. 1986
Gwendolen Harleth marries for power and soon regrets it. She turns her attention to Daniel Deronda. At one time he…
found her attractive, but now he is busily engaged in a search for the family of a young woman he saved from drowning. Deronda's mission leads him into London's East End, where he meets with success. The dual plots of this novel explore the importance of character and touch on anti-Semitism in Victorian society. 1986, c1876.Little Dorrit
By Charles Dickens. 1967
Le Père Goriot (Macmillan's modern language texts)
By Honoré De Balzac. 1946
La petite Dorrit
By Charles Dickens, Paul Lorain. 2015
Heptaméron
By reine, épouse de Henri II, roi de Navarre, 1492-1549 Marguerite, Simone De Reyff. 1982
Agnès Grey
By Anne Brontë, Dominqiue Jean. 2001
Voyage au centre de la terre
By Jules Verne. 1989
Dans un vieux manuscrit, Lidenbrock trouve un cryptogramme. Arne Saknussemm, célèbre savant islandais du XVIe siècle, y révèle que par…
la cheminée du cratère du Sneffels, volcan éteint, il a pénétré jusqu'au centre de la terre! 1989, c1864.Trois contes
By Gustave Flaubert. 1989
Tristram Shandy
By Laurence Sterne. 1791
Beginning with an account of his own conception (because his father had forgotten to wind the clock!) this parson-turned-writer uses…
the story of his birth and early years as a vehicle for many bizarre and hilarious digressions. These include - amongst others - his Uncle Toby, nursing his 'wound in the groin' and playing war games with Tristram's father, and Dr. Slop, whose delivery technique gave the author a birthday present of a bent nose. 1791.The Decameron: [volume 2 of two volumes]
By Giovanni Boccaccio, Edward Hutton, J M Rigg. 1930
In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside.…
They amuse themselves by each telling a story a day for the ten days they are destined to remain there. Descriptions of sex. 1930.