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Polly's friendship with the wealthy Shaws of Boston helps them to build a new life and teaches her the truth about the relationship between happiness and...

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This book by Henry Murger was the source of the plot used by Puccini in his opera "La Boheme".

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A concealed crime and a false accusation of murder.

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The history of the making and marring of men in politics.

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Widely regarded as Dickens’s masterpiece, Bleak House centers on the generations-long lawsuit Jarndyce and Jarndyce, through which “whole families have...

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Ruth, Helen, and Tom watch a movie crew film scenes near the Red Mill. As they watch, the starring actress, Hazel Gray, falls into the river and is swept...

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The Cricket on the Hearth is a novella by Charles Dickens, written in 1845. It is the third of Dickens' five Christmas books, the others being A Christmas...

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The Battle of Life: A Love Story is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1846. It is the fourth of his five "Christmas Books", coming after The...

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Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the "major phase" of James' career. The Golden...

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Can You Forgive Her? was written in the year 1864 by Anthony Trollope. This book is one of the most popular novels of Anthony Trollope, and has been...

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Confidence was written in the year 1879 by Henry James. This book is one of the most popular novels of Henry James, and has been translated into several...

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The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844,...

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Sanders was written in the year 1926 by Edgar Wallace. This book is one of the most popular novels of Edgar Wallace, and has been translated into several...

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Fanshawe was written in the year 1828 by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This book is one of the most popular novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and has been translated...

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Wives and Daughters is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866. When Mrs Gaskell...

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Olenin was a youth who had never completed his university course, never served anywhere (having only a nominal post in some government office or other), who...

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Wellington Redburn is a fifteen-year-old from the state of New York, with only one dream - to run away to sea. However, when he does fulfil this long-held...

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Lord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman--"as unflinching as a hero in a book"--who is disgraced by a single act of cowardice while...

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Upon its publication in 1857, Little Dorrit immediately outsold any of Dickens’s previous books. The story of William Dorrit, imprisoned for debt in...