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Set in mid-19th-century Russia, this book tells the story of a married woman's passion for a youn...

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse to be taken in by a den of thiev...

A biting satire on dictatorship written during the Second World War and published in 1945, ANIMAL...

Charlotte Bront¿bwas born on 21 April 1816. Her father was curate of Haworth, Yorkshire, and he...

This series provides an ideal platform to study chess openings. By continually challenging the re...

Considered by many readers, including Shaw, Chesterton, Conrad and Trilling, as one of Dickens's ...

Place of refuge, place where we can be ourselves; place we long to escape from, place where we ar...

In two remarkable historical novels, Mary Renault fashions from the myth of Theseus a convincingl...

'All good poetry is the spontaneous poetry of powerful feelings' -William WordsworthNo generation...

A bouquet of great wedding stories--by turns funny, passionate, bittersweet, and romantic--by fam...

In this novel of obsessive passion the author tells stories of Old Goriot and the ungrateful daug...