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Last Chronicle of Barset(2002) TROLLOPE, ANTHONYWhen Mr Crawley, curate of Hogglestock, is falsely accused of theft he suffers bitterly with his family. Crawley is an ambiguous character however, and he himself seems to bring about most of his suffering.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
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She(2001) HAGGARD, H. RIDEROn his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo Vincey opens the silver casket that his father has left to him. It contains a letter recounting the legend of a white sorceress who rules an African tribe and of his father's quest to find this remote race. To find out foVezava: Mehka11,20 €
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Under the Greenwood Tree(2013) HARDY, THOMASThis edition presents a critically established text based on comparisons of every revised version. Hardy placed this tale among his Novels of Character and Environment, a group which is held to include his most characteristic work.Vezava: Mehka12,61 €
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Heart of Darkness(2021) CONRAD, JOSEPHExam board: Edexcel Level & Subject: AS and A Level English Literature First teaching: September 2015 Next exams: 2025Vezava: Mehka6,06 €
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Anna Livia Plurabelle(2017) JOYCE, JAMESAs James Joyce was working on Finnegans Wake, he asked his friend T.S. This celebrated episode, Anna Livia Plurabelle, was the first part of Joyce's extraordinary text to be published in England, printed in pamphlet form in 1930.Vezava: Mehka14,01 €
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Old Curiosity Shop(2001) DICKENS, CHARLESLittle Nell Trent lives in the quiet gloom of the old curiosity shop with her ailing grandfather, for whom she cares with selfless devotion. But when they are unable to pay their debts to the stunted, lecherous and demonic money-lender Daniel Quilp, the sVezava: Mehka14,01 €
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Diary of a Nobody(1999) GROSSMITH, GEORGE,GROSSMITH, WEEDONMr Pooter is a man of modest ambitions, content with his ordinary life. Yet he always seems to be troubled by disagreeable tradesmen, not to mention his devil-may-care son Lupin with his unsuitable choice of bride.Vezava: Mehka12,61 €
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Adam Bede(2008) ELIOT, GEORGECarpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival, in the local squire's son Arthur Donnithorne. Hetty is soon attracted by Arthur's seductive charm and they begin to meet in secret. The relationship is toVezava: Mehka15,41 €
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Guy Mannering(2003) SCOTT, WALTERGuy Mannering is an astrologer who only half-believes in his art. Instead he places his faith in patriarchal power, wealth and social position. But the Scotland of this novel is a nation in which the old hierarchies are breaking down and in which each socVezava: Mehka18,21 €
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Kenilworth(1999) SCOTT, WALTERIn the court of Elizabeth I, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, is favoured above all the noblemen of England. It is rumoured that the Queen may chose him for her husband. This story is a depiction of intrigue, power struggles and superstition in a bygoneVezava: Mehka18,21 €
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Miss Marjoribanks(1998) OLIPHANT, MARGARETReturning home to tend her widowed father Dr Marjoribanks, Lucilla soon launches herself into Carlingford society, aiming to raise the tone with her select Thursday evening parties. Optimistic, resourceful and blithely unimpeded by self-doubt, Lucilla isVezava: Mehka15,41 €
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Martin Chuzzlewit(1999) DICKENS, CHARLESThe greed of Patricia Ingham's family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and namesake to make his own way in the world. And so young Martin sets out from the Wiltshire home of his supposed chaVezava: Mehka14,01 €
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Jude the Obscure(1998) HARDY, THOMASMoving to Christminster to work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking "New Woman". Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious convention, Jude and Sue decide instead to live togetherVezava: Mehka12,61 €
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Dombey and Son(2002) DICKENS, CHARLESOffers a compelling depiction of a man imprisoned by his own pride, it explores the devastating effects of emotional deprivation on a dysfunctional family and on society as a whole. This title also discusses the character of Paul Dombey, business and famiVezava: Mehka14,01 €
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Wives and Daughters(1996) GASKELL, ELIZABETHWhen seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson's widowed father remarries, her life is turned upside down by the arrival of her vain, manipulative stepfather. She also acquires an intriguing new stepsister, Cynthia, glamorous, sophisticated and irresistible to everVezava: Mehka15,41 €
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Mary Barton(1996) GASKELL, ELIZABETHMary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owner's son, and making a better life for herself and her father. But when Henry is shot down in the streeVezava: Mehka12,61 €
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Master of Ballantrae(1996) STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUISThis novel is set in Scotland during the 1745 Jacobite rebellion, in the French Indies and in the North American wilderness. The story has as its hero one of the most compelling yet horrifying studies of evil in 19th-century fiction - James Durie, MasterVezava: Mehka14,01 €
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Felix Holt(1995) ELIOT, GEORGEWhen the young Harold Transome returns to England with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his decision to stand for Parliament as a Radical. But, after the idealistic Felix Holt also returns to the town, the difference betweeVezava: Mehka15,41 €
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Daniel Deronda(1995) ELIOT, GEORGEGwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition of the English upper-classes. And while Gwendolen loses everything and becomes traVezava: Mehka14,01 €
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Sylvia's Lovers(1996) GASKELL, ELIZABETHSet in 1790 in Monkshaven, where press-gangs wreak havoc by seizing young men for service in the Napoleonic wars. One of their victims is Charley Kinraid, who captured the heart of Sylvia Robson. But Sylvia's cousin, Philip Hepburn, hopes to marry her himVezava: Mehka18,21 €