Eugenie Grandet  |
| Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850) |
Who is going to marry Eugenie Grandet? Enter one cousin Charles, recently orphaned and penniless. Set in provincial France in the aftermath of the French Revolution, Eugenie Grandet is a tale of a father's financial cunning and miserliness pitched against a daughter's determination to rebel. |
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| Fairy Tales |
| Brothers Grimm (1786 - 1863) |
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| How to Speak and Write Correctly |
| Joseph Devlin (1872 - 1934) |
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| Kenilworth |
| Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) |
A true life tragic romance embedded within an accurate depiction of the Elizabethan court of the 1500s.
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester courts the favour of Queen Elizabeth I.
To fulfill his ambitions he must keep secret his love for Amy Robsart, the daughter of Sir Hugh Robsart.
These conflicting forces cannot be kept in balance forever...
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| Armadale |
| Wilkie Collins (1824 - 1889) |
A Victorian "sensation novel" par excellence, but perhaps a little challenging for some when it was first published: 'One of the most hardened female villains whose devices and desires have ever blackened fiction' The Athenaeum reviewer of Armadale (1866). Throughout the novel you know Lydia Gwilt is a wicked woman and that she is out to destroy Alan Armadale, but you can't help wishing her success. |
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| Bel Ami |
| Henri Rene Guy De Maupassant (1850 - 1893) |
The novel follows Georges Duroy's corrupt rise to power. With assistance from a series of powerful mistresses Duroy quickly rises from a lowly returned serviceman to one of the most influential men of Paris. |
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| Daniel Deronda |
| George Eliot (1819 - 1880) |
Daniel Deronda is the ward of wealthy Englishman, Sir Hugo Mallinger. He falls for the beautiful Gwendolen but a reversal in her family's fortunes sees her marry another and binds her to a different life. Meanwhile, Deronda saves a young Jewish woman, Mirah, and becomes involved in her search for lost family and identity. But a dramatic revelation threatens Deronda's own sense of identity. Romance and realism intertwine in this beautiful book. |
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