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The Longest Journey (1907) is a novel by English author E.M. Forster. Despite its critical success, the novel was a commercial failure for Forster, but has since grown in reputation and readership to help cement his reception as one of twentieth century England's most talented writers.
Rickie Elliot enters Cambridge as a young man, exploring his interests in poetry and art and joining a circle of intellectuals centered around, a philosopher named...
2) Villette
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English
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Left with no family and no money, Lucy Snowe goes against her own timid nature and travels to the small city of Villette, France, where she becomes a school teacher in Madam Beck's school for girls.
3) Shantaram
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Shantaram volume 1
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English
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Having escaped an Australian maximum security prison, a disillusioned man loses himself in the slums of Bombay, where he works for a drug kingpin, smuggles arms for a crime lord, and forges bonds with fellow exiles.
4) Big Sur
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English
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Retiring to a seaside cabin near San Francisco, Jack Duluoz looks for tranquility, but finds only horror and despair.
5) Freshwater
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English
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An extraordinary debut novel exploring the metaphysics of identity and mental health, centering on a young Nigerian woman as she struggles to reconcile the proliferation of multiple selves within her.
6) Agnes Grey
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English
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Written when women-and workers generally-had few rights in England, Agnes Grey exposes the brutal inequities of the rigid class system in mid-nineteenth century Britain. Agnes comes from a respectable middle-class family, but their financial reverses have forced her to seek work as a governess. Pampered and protected at home, she is unprepared for the harsh reality of a governess's life. At the Bloomfields and later the Murrays, she suffers under...
8) Panpocalypse
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English
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"In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, a queer disabled woman bikes through a locked-down New York City in search of connection"--
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Published in 1850, David Copperfield is Charles Dickens' eighth novel and the one that most closely follows the author's own life. A coming of age story, it describes David's life from childhood with a difficult stepfather, his schooling, his entry into the workforce, his courtship and marriage(s) and his eventual success as an author. Filled with colorful characters like Wilkins Micawber and Betsey Trotwood, and unforgettable villains like Uriah...
10) Little women
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Little Women is a classic novel by Louisa May Alcott, originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. The story is set against the backdrop of the Civil War and follows the lives of the four March sisters-Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy-as they navigate the challenges of adolescence and early adulthood. The novel begins with the March family facing financial difficulties as their father is away serving as a chaplain in the war. Despite their limited...
11) Anthony Powell
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1995.
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English
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Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Anthony Powell.
12) Home court
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Between sports, school, and working for his father, eleven-year-old Amar'e's life is full and he is not yet ready to concentrate on basketball--but when a group of older boys start hogging the local basketball court he knows that he has to do something to help his friends.
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Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 98
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1992.
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English
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Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work The Bell Jar, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author.
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Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 172
Pub. Date
1999.
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English
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Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work On The Road, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author.
15) Thomas Wolfe
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1964.
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English
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Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Thomas Wolfe.
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Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 10
Pub. Date
1987.
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English
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Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work Jane Eyre, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author.
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English
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"Homesick and alone, a teenaged girl has just arrived in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside, is too impoverished to keep sending her to school, so she works long, sunless days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve her dream of becoming a writer"--Amazon.com.
18) Mujercitas
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Español
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Presents an adaptation of the classic novel in which Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy, and their mother endure the hardships of poverty while the girls' father is away fighting in the Civil War.
19) Jean Rhys
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Twayne's English authors volume TEAS 536
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
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Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Jean Rhys.
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