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From the earth to the moon (Crest book ; #S216)
By Jules Verne. 1995
It is the year 1865. Following the end of the American Civil War, the members of Baltimore Gun Club are…
restless, seeking new ways of using their genius for invention and discovery. So their president, Impey Barbicane, sets his fellows a challenge: to construct a rocket which can reach the moon. 1995, c1865. Uniform title: De la terre à la lune.Felix Holt, the radical (The World's classics)
By George Eliot, Fred C Thomson. 1980
Felix Holt is pitted against the self-satisfied local landowner Harold Transome, both politically and in his pursuit of Esther Lyon.…
Eliot's novel is set against the political ferment and corrupt electioneering in a small Midland borough at the time of the Reform Bill of 1832. 1980.Eugene Onegin: a novel in verse (Penguin classics)
By Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Stanley Mitchell. 2008
Set in 1820s Russia. Tired of the glitter and glamour of St Petersburg society, aristocratic dandy Eugene Onegin retreats to…
the country estate he has recently inherited. With the arrival of the idealistic young poet Vladimir Lensky he begins an unlikely friendship, as the poet welcomes his urbane addition to his small social circle - and is happy to introduce Onegin to his fiancee, Olga, and her family. But when Olga's sister Tatiana becomes infatuated with Onegin, his cold rejection of her love brings about a tragedy that engulfs them all. Originally published: 1833. 2008.Diary of a pilgrimage (Jerome K. Jerome Ser.)
By Jerome K Jerome. 1891
Invited to the theatre on Monday next, Jerome discovers it is at Ober-Ammergau. He looked at his diary and saw…
that Aunt Emma was coming, calculated that he would miss her and decided that he would go! And so began an epic pilgrimage. 1891.Dombey and Son (Penguin English library)
By Charles Dickens, Peter Fairclough. 1848
This novel was published in 20 monthly installments during 1846-48 and in book form in 1848. It was a crucial…
novel in Dickens development, a product of more thorough planning and maturer thought than his earlier serialized books. The title character, Mr. Dombey, is a wealthy shipping merchant whose wife dies giving birth to their second child, a long-hoped-for son and heir, Paul. 1970.Doctor Thorne (Barsetshire novels. #3.)
By Anthony Trollope, David Skilton. 1994
Doctor Thorne is confronted with a delicate problem when his niece, the penniless Mary Thorne, considers marriage to Frank Gresham,…
heir to a great but impoverished estate. Shall Doctor Thorne disclose that Mary may herself become heiress to a huge fortune? Third in the Chronicles of Barsetshire. 1994.Desperate remedies: a novel
By Thomas Hardy. 1975
Cytherea Gray, lady's maid, decides to marry the villainous Aeneas Manston after she discovers her true love, Edward Springrove, is…
already engaged. As soon as she is married she discovers that Aeneas's first wife is still alive. Her investigations into the situation have tragic consequences. 1975.Daisy Miller (Forsyte chronicles)
By Henry James, Geoffrey Moore. 1986
"What the European male fails to understand is that the American girl is innocent by definition, mythically innocent", and, the…
confusion of Winterbourne is aggravated by the atmosphere in Vevey, a no-man's land half-way between the grimness of Geneva and the moral laxity of Rome. Winterbourne mistakes Daisy's frank manner for commonness, yet he is also aware of her delicate grace. 1986.Cranford (Oxford English Novels Ser.)
By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. 1853
Bonjour tristesse (Great loves)
By Françoise Sagan, Irene Ash. 2007
Cecile leads a hedonistic, frivolous life with her father and his young mistresses. On holiday in the South of France,…
she is seduced by the sun, the sand and her first lover. But when her father decides to remarry, their carefree existence becomes clouded by tragedy. Originally published in 1954. 2007.Barnaby Rudge (Penguin English library)
By Charles Dickens, G. W Spence. 1973
Barchester Towers (Barsetshire novels. #2.)
By Anthony Trollope, Michael Sadleir, Frederick Page. 1953
An eye for an eye (The World's classics)
By Anthony Trollope, Andrew Sutherland. 1992
Fred Neville, heir to an earldom, resolves to enjoy a year in Ireland with his regiment, and falls in love…
with a beautiful Irish girl with a mysterious background. His family oppose the match, and he seduces his wild Irish girl. The scene is thus set for a tragic outcome that far exceeds the adventures Fred had in mind. 1992.Agnes Grey (The World's classics)
By Anne Brontë, Robert Inglesfield, Hilda Marsden. 1991
Classic satire about a nineteenth-century New England factory worker who is knocked unconscious and transported back to the year 528.…
Hank Morgan awakens in King Arthur's court in Britain, where he attempts to improve living conditions by introducing modern inventions and democratic ideas. For senior high and older readers. 1988, c1889.The professor (Penguin Popular Classics Ser.)
By Charlotte Brontë, Heather Glen. 1989
This first novel by the famous author of "Jane Eyre," is based on Bronte's experience as a young woman studying…
in Belgium, where she fell hopelessly in love with a married teacher. Many scholars acknowledge it as a study for her later novel, "Villette." 1989.The picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin classics)
By Oscar Wilde, Robert Mighall. 1890
"If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old...I would give…
my soul for that!" The wish uttered by Dorian Gray as he gazes on his portrait forms the basis of this story, of a gilded and spoilt hedonist who is willing to sell his soul for his beauty. 1890.Uncle Tom's cabin: or, Life among the lowly (A Harper classic)
By Harriet Beecher Stowe. 1965
First published in 1852, abolitionist Stowe's depiction of the moral injustice of slavery and the evils of materialism. Tom saves…
little Eva's life, and years later she tries to help him gain his freedom. Eventually, Tom's protection of runaway Eliza costs him his life at the hands of the brutal ex-Yankee Simon Legree. 1965.Wives and daughters (The Penguin English library)
By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Frank Glover Smith, Laurence Lerner. 1969
This story of Mr. Gibson's new marriage and its influence on the lives of those closest to him is underpinned…
by a sense of social change, and of the more basic realities of birth and death. First published in 1866. 1969.Wild animals I have known (New Canadian library ; #141)
By Ernest Thompson Seton. 1898