Journey to the Centre of the Earth
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Science-fiction wizard Jules Verne takes us not to outer space or to the ocean's depths, but straight into the heart of the planet in this astonishing 1864 work. Professor Lidenbrock comes across an a ...
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Individual longings clash with the harsh realities of life in a poor coal-mining town in D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers. Gertrude Coppard is a well-to-do woman whose heart leads her to Walter Morel, ...
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Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
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A mix of Borges-worthy fantasy with nethead-bellhead debates. It works.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fascinating novel, The Lost World, was first published in 1912. Trying to win the heart of a young woman, newspaperman Ed Malone seeks out a glamorous and risky assignment fro ...
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The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
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Moll Flanders, the heroine of the 1722 novel by Daniel Defoe that bears her name, enters the world as the daughter of a convict saved from execution only by her pregnancy. Moll's felonious birth-mothe ...
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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
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2003 saw the release of Cory Doctorow’s first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. The “Magic Kingdom” of the title refers to the Magic Kingdom we know today - Disneyworld. And yet, in the ...
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The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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VOLUME I. CHAPTER I. An Account of Mr. Gamaliel Pickle--The Disposition of his Sister described--He yields to her Solicitations, and returns to the Country. In a certain county of England, bounded on ...
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A STUDY IN SCARLET. PART I. CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES. IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course pres ...
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This novel of disillusionment, love and greed follows the protagonist Amory Blaine, a charming and romantic egotist. Convinced of his exceptional talent, Amory leaves his home in the Midwest to attend ...
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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Hank Morgan is an ordinary resident of Hartford, Connecticut who one day wakes up in the middle of medieval England. Although startled at this wild and shocking turn of events, Hank is an eminently pr ...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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Jules Verne dazzles us with his 1870 science fiction novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Our story begins when a horrible sea monster appears out of nowhere, and the United States Government ...
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By the turn of the twentieth century, the rise of big business in America had brought huge changes to the lives of people everywhere. Some enjoyed major success, while others struggled desperately to ...
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A trip to Mars leads to the discovery of a utopia/dystopia. Introduced the word "astronaut" to the English language.
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In Jules Verne's 1874 novel The Mysterious Island, the Civil War is raging in the United States. Five Northern men have been taken prisoner by the Confederate army in Richmond, Virginia. The city is e ...
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Medieval England was a time and place of great conflict. As the Crusades came to a close, Normans and Saxons clashed in constant battles over control of the land. A citizen's allegiance to one side or ...
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A modest shepherd is put through innumerable trials and tribulations by the vain beauty he loves in Thomas Hardy’s epic 1874 novel. Gabriel Oak is a poor but successful shepherd when he falls for Ba ...
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Inspired by stories of legendary French courtesans, Emile Zola’s 1880 novel Nana is the tale of a young woman who finds her calling as a prostitute on the streets of Paris. As the story opens, Nana ...
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Set in the pre-revolutionary days of the untamed American frontier, The Deerslayer (1841) is James Fenimore Cooper's tale of Natty Bumppo, a hardy man who maintains high ideals even amid the brutal fa ...
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