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Earliest Publication Date
1859
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A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens's great historical novel, set against the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the author's novels, A Tale of Two Cities still underscores...
2) Jane Eyre
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1933
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In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret. Charlotte Bronte's novel about the passionate love between Jane Eyre, a young girl alone in the world, and the rich, brilliant, domineering Rochester has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic, ever since...
3) Lord Jim
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1920
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Adventures of a sailor who prowls the unmapped jungles of the Far East in search of the feudal warlord who is terrorizing the peace-loving natives.
4) Oliver Twist
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1941
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Adentures of an orphan boy who lives in the squalid surroundings of a nineteenth-century English workhouse until he becomes involved with a gang of thieves.
5) The American
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1877
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When the marriage of American millionaire Christopher Newman and French aristocrat Claire de Bellegarde is opposed by her poor but proud family, Christopher uncovers a terrible secret and must discover what is truly important--Novelist.
Earliest Publication Date
1923
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Set in 1757 amidst the French and Indian War, the novel tells the story of frontier scout Hawkeye and his efforts to conduct two daughters of a fort commander to safety.
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1918
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?Are we going up again? ??No. On the contrary; we are going down!? ?Worse than that, Mr. Smith, we are falling!? ?For God?s sake throw over all the ballast!? ?The last sack is empty!? ?And the balloon rises again?? ?No!? ?I hear the splashing waves!? ?The sea is under us!? ?It is not five hundred feet off!? Then a strong, clear voice shouted:??Overboard with all we have, and God help us! ?Such were the words which rang through the air above the vast...
8) The pioneers
Earliest Publication Date
1958
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Natty Bumppo, now on the threshold of old age, finds his way of life challenged as the land he has roamed becomes private property and the laws of man supplant the laws of nature.
