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The war of the worlds
By John Scotney, H. G Wells. 1898
Roderick Hudson (Penguin Classics)
By Henry James, Geoffrey Moore. 1986
Roderick Hudson is an exceptionally gifted but obscure sculptor who is transported to Rome and the aesthetic adventure of Europe…
by Rowland Mallett, a rich man of fine appreciative sensibilities, who intends to give Roderick the scope to develop his genius. Together they seem like twins or lovers, opposing halves of what should have been an ideal whole. 1986.The Highland widow and other stories
By Walter Scott. 2005
The distracted preacher and other tales (Penguin classics)
By Thomas Hardy, Susan Hill. 1979
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.Love and friendship, and other early works: And Other Early Works
By Jane Austen. 2000
Old Goriot
By Ellen Marriage, Honoré De Balzac. 1834
Far from the madding crowd
By Thomas Hardy. 1874
Cranford (Oxford English Novels Ser.)
By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. 1853
Lorna Doone
By R. D Blackmore. 1988
À la fin du 17e siècle, au fin fond du pays d'Exmoor, en Angleterre, la redoutable tribu des Doone, inquiétant…
ramassis d'aristocrates proscrit, sème la terreur d'une rive à l'autre de la province. Et nous voici entrainés à la suite du brave John Ridd, dans une succession d'épisodes dont le moins qu'on puisse dire est qu'ils ne sont pas de tout repos. Quelques descriptions de violence. 1988.The three musketeers
By Alexandre Dumas. 1844
A historical romance, this novel tells of the adventures of the hot-headed young Gascon, d'Artagnan, and his three companions Athos,…
Porthos and Aramis as they gallantly defend the Queen of France, using their wit and their swords. Set in the seventeenth century. 1844.The prisoner of Zenda (Everyman's library ; no. 1637)
By Anthony Hope. 1953
Romantic adventure in which Rudolf Rassendyll, an Englishman who bears a striking resemblance to the ruling house of Ruritania, decides…
to attend the coronation of the king. When Rudolf arrives, he discovers a plot against the king and is persuaded to impersonate him. A novel of romantic escapades, duels, conspiracies, and other intrigues. First published in 1894. 1953.The adventures of Don Quixote (Penguin classics ; #10)
By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, J. M Cohen. 1950
In this classic among comic novels, Don Quixote sets out to roam the world, imitating the knights-errant of whom he…
had read. Only his practical and trusty servant Sancho Panza brings him down to earth and saves him from the danger to which he exposes himself on all occasions. 1950.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.Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
By Jules Verne. 1870
The central character of this book, which is remarkable for its prediction of the invention of the submarine, are in…
the process of exploring marine disturbances when they are captured by the megalomaniacal Captain Nemo. 1870.Quentin Durward (Oxford World's Classics)
By Susan Manning, Walter Scott. 1992
The young Scottish adventurer, Quentin Durward, embarks on a dangerous journey through the forest of the Ardennes, seeking a name,…
a partner and a position in the world. Meanwhile, the Machiavellian King Louis XI of France manoeuvres his realm out of the hands of the feudal barons, and into the centralised control that Scott believed to characterise the modern state. 1992.The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders & c: The Fortunes And Misfortunes Of The Famous Moll Flanders (Forsyte chronicles)
By Daniel Defoe, David Blewett. 1989
Born in Newgate prison and abandoned, Moll's drive to find a secure place in society propels her through incest, adultery,…
bigamy, prostitution and a career as a thief before she is apprehended and returned to Newgate. Moll is an embodiment of the virtues and vices of her eighteenth-century contemporaries. 1722, 1989. Uniform title: Fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll FlandersMadame 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.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.Frankenstein
By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. 1997
In this dramatic setting of Mary Shelley's original story, first broadcast as Classic Serial on BBC Radio 4, the listener…
will be able to enjoy the full terror of this surprisingly prophetic Gothic horror story. 1997, c1818.