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1) Angel
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English
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"Angelica Deverell lives above her diligent, drab mother's grocery shop in a dreary turn-of-the-century English neighborhood, but spends her days dreaming of handsome Paradise House, where her aunt is enthroned as a maid. But in Angel's imagination, she is the mistress of the house, a realm of lavish opulence, of evening gowns and peacocks. Then she begins to write popular novels, and this fantasy becomes her life. And now that she has tasted success,...
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English
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Between 1906 and 1921 John Galsworthy published three novels chronicling the Forsyte family, a fictional upper-middle class family at the end of the Victorian era: The Man of Property, In Chancery, and To Let. In 1922 Galsworthy wrote two interconnecting short stories to bind the three novels together and published the whole as The Forsyte Saga.
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The Last Chronicle of Barset is a novel by Anthony Trollope, published in 1867. It is the final book of a series of six, often referred to collectively as the Chronicles of Barsetshire. The Last Chronicle of Barset concerns an indigent but learned clergyman, the Reverend Josiah Crawley, the perpetual curate of Hogglestock, who stands accused of stealing a cheque. The novel is notable for the non-resolution of a plot continued from the previous novel...
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English
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The three books gathered together as Eustace and Hilda explore a brother and sister's lifelong relationship. Hilda, the older child, is both self-sacrificing and domineering, as puritanical as she is gorgeous; Eustace is a gentle, dreamy, pleasure-loving boy: the two siblings could hardly be more different, but they are also deeply devoted. And yet as Eustace and Hilda grow up and seek to go their separate ways in a world of power and position, money...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[1924]
Language
English
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The White Monkey is the fourth of the nine novels in the Forsyte Chronicles and marks the opening of the second trilogy in the series, called A Modern Comedy. In this new chapter, Fleur and Michael Mont begin to question their marriage when their good friend, author Wilfred Desert, can no longer contain his passion for Fleur. Fleur finds herself torn between her love for Michael and passion for Wilfred. Meanwhile, Soames Forsyte, as a director of...
6) The avenue
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Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1969]
Language
English
Description
Sprawling novel of London suburban life from 1918-1948, with emphasis on six families.
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Series
Pub. Date
1929.
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English
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A continuation of the tale begun in The forsyte saga, here is the second in the three-volume epic chronicling the lives of John Galsworthy's famous Forsyte family. A collection of the three novels - The white monkey, The silver spoon, and Swan song - A modern comedy depicts the history of the younger generation of Forsytes just as poignantly as The forsyte saga detailed the history of their elders. In creating the many extraordinary family members,...
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Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"Eve has build a good life: a husband who adores her, a daughter she is fiercely proud of, a home with warmth and love at its heart. But things were not always so good, and the truth is that she has done things she can never admit. Then one evening a phone call comes out of the blue. It is a voice from long ago, a man from a past that she has tried so hard to hide...." --
10) Getting a life
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Stories that "catch the special timbre--part laughter, part wail, of youngish, more or less sophisticated lives in the city at our particular moment in time."--Jacket.
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Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Offers a selection of the author's short stories that often deal with everyday English domestic life and its nuanced emotional undercurrents.
Considered one of the best British writers of the post-war era, Taylor is only now beginning to gain the recognition due her. This collections offers a selection of the author's short stories that often deal with everyday English domestic life and its nuanced emotional undercurrents.
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1995.
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English
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"The new critical approaches that have swept through literary criticism in recent years have transformed our sense of David Copperfield and Hard Times. There is now a new kind of understanding of how both novels emerge from and relate to the 1850s. In collecting together the most original and exciting innovative work on David Copperfield and Hard Times, this New Casebook offers the reader an excellent introduction to current critical thinking about...
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