Mary Barton  |
| Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810 - 1865) |
Mary Barton is a millworker's daughter who comes into contact with the son of a wealthy family. She must decide between her devoted lover and the possibilities of joining a middle class family. The book explores the British lower classes' frustration, the false sense of class mobility of the 1800s, at a time when the working class were not able to vote. Much of this novel is autobiographical, incorporating incidents from Gaskell's own life. |
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| Master and Man |
| Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) |
The story Master and Man tells the tale of a master and his peasant who journey to another town for business in a blizzard. Lost on their way, the peasant begins to suffer from hypothermia verging on death. The master nonetheless feels compelled to press on in the journey until a moral revelation befalls him. How will he try to save his peasant? A very moving story. Classic Tolstoy story-telling. |
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| No Name |
| Wilkie Collins (1824 - 1889) |
When published in 1862 it was condemned by critics as immoral, today it is regarded as a novel of outstanding social insight. It is the story of two sisters, Magdalen and Norah, who discover that their parents were not married at the time of their birth and that they are, therefore, illegitimate. They are disinherited and expelled from their family estate. They either adapt to their new station in life, or attempt to recover their wealth by any means... |
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| Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard |
| Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) |
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| Notes on Life and Letters |
| Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) |
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| Phineas Redux |
| Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) |
Following the death of his wife in childbirth, Phineas Finn re-enters a career in English politics renewing friendships and hostilities along the way. When the murder of an opposition member of parliament and a well-known bitter foe makes him a suspect, Finn's life quickly falls apart. First published in 1873, this is the fourth book in Trollope's "Palliser" series of books, political intrigue at its powerful best. |
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| Protagoras |
| Plato (427BC - 348BC) |
Set in dialogue form, the main players in this work are a young Socrates and an elderly sophist, Protagoras. Unusual to Plato's works, Protagoras also employs a cast of many others in the dialogue. In it, Plato once again explores the concept of virtue and whether or not it can be taught. Is virtue actually knowledge? And if so, can knowledge not be taught and thus also virtue? |
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