The Hand of Ethelberta
By: Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Adventuress and opportunist, Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins, launching…
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1. Barnaby Rudge
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , None , John Bowen
3.72
Format: None pages,
Set against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspe… read more
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2. Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)
By: Anthony Trollope , Ruth Rendell
4.14
Format: 557 pages, Paperback
A recent cover reprint for this ISBN can be found here and an older one here. Son of a bankrupt … read more
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"Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart."-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)
"Mary, it must be remembered, was very nearly of the same age as Frank; but, as I and others have so often said before, 'Women grow on the sunny side of the wall."-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)
"Buying and selling is good and necessary; it is very necessary, and may, possibly, be very good; but it cannot be the noblest work of man; and let us hope that it may not in our time be esteemed the …"-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)
"Oh! do look at Miss Oriel's bonnet the next time you see her. I cannot understand why it should be so, but I am sure of this—no English fingers could put together such a bonnet as that; and I am near…"-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)
3. Swallowdale (Swallows and Amazons, #2)
By: Arthur Ransome
3.71
Format: 656 pages,
The second title in Arthur Ransome's classic series for children, for grownups, for anyone captivat… read more
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4. The Hand of Ethelberta
By: Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Adventuress and opportunist, Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins, launching… read more
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5. Martin Chuzzlewit
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Patricia Ingham
3.64
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Set partly in the United States, this novel includes a searing satire on mid-nineteenth-century Ame… read more
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6. Night and Day
By: Virginia Woolf , Julia Briggs
3.76
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between… read more
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"She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine ..."-Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
"The only truth which she could discover was the truth of what she herself felt."-Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
"If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?"-Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
"It seemed a mere toss-up whether she said, ‘I love you,’ or whether she said, ‘I love the beech-trees,’ or only ‘I love—I love."-Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
7. Daniel Deronda
By: George Eliot , Edmund White
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
George Eliot's final novel and her most ambitious work, Daniel Derondacontrasts the moral laxity of… read more
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8. The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne
By: Ann Radcliffe
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Ann Radcliffe's first novel is set in the Middle Ages against the melancholy beauty of mountains an… read more
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9. Framley Parsonage (Chronicles of Barsetshire #4)
By: Anthony Trollope
3.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Fourth in the Barsetshire Chronicles, FRAMLEY PARSONAGE was published in 1860. In it the values of … read more
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10. Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1)
By: Arthur Ransome
4.01
Format: 315 pages, Paperback
The first title in Arthur Ransome's classic series, originally published in 1930: for children, for… read more
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"Better drowned than duffers, if not duffers won't drown."-Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1)
"But the big hills up at the lake helped to make him feel that the houseboat man did not matter. The hills had been there before Captain Flint. They would be there for ever. That, somehow was comforti…"-Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1)
11. Shirley
By: Charlotte Brontë , Lucasta Miller , None , Jessica Cox
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Following the tremendous popular success of Jane Eyre,which earned her lifelong notoriety as a mora… read more
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12. Mary Barton
By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Shirley Foster
3.91
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 183… read more
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13. The Blithedale Romance
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
Large Format for easy reading. Classic novel set in 19th-century New England, and drawing on the au… read more
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14. Nicholas Nickleby
By: Charles Dickens , Mark Ford
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
'I shall never regret doing as I have--never, if I starve or beg in consequence' When Nicholas Nick… read more
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15. Adam Bede
By: George Eliot , Joanna Trollope , Hugh Osborne
3.82
Format: 624 pages, Paperback
The story of a beautiful country girl's seduction by the local squire and its bitter, tragic sequel… read more
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"She hates everything that is not what she longs for."-George Eliot, Adam Bede
"Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle."-George Eliot, Adam Bede
"Our deeds determine us, as long as we determine our deeds"-George Eliot, Adam Bede
"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."-George Eliot, Adam Bede
16. Phineas Finn (Palliser, #2)
By: Anthony Trollope , John Sutherland
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
The second of Trollope's "Palliser" novels introduces its title character, Phineas Finn, a talented… read more
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17. The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6)
By: Anthony Powell
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over … read more
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18. Erewhon (Erewhon , #1)
By: Samuel Butler
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
In this novel, Butler satirically describes a utopian society, using the civilization of 'Erewhon' … read more
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19. The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
By: Anthony Trollope , David Skilton
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Warden centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in p… read more
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"It is much less difficult for the sufferer to be generous than for the oppressor."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"... In what I do I may appear to be interfering with you, and I hope you will forgive me for doing so."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"He never quarreled with his wife, but he never talked to her;--he never had time to talk, he was so taken up with speaking."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts!"-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
20. The Old Curiosity Shop
By: Charles Dickens , Norman Page
3.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
The archetypal Victorian melodrama, as heartfelt and moving today as when it was first published, C… read more
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