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Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

A governess with a fierce heart navigates love, loss, and the shadows of Thornfield Hall.

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Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is the enduring classic of wit, courtship, social pressure, misjudgment, and the gradual correction of first impressions.

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Desperate Remedies

Desperate Remedies

Thomas Hardy’s first published novel blends romance, secrecy, mistaken motives, and melodramatic danger into a fast-moving story of ambition and manipulation.

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Only a girl's love

Only a girl's love

A tender romance in the popular Victorian tradition, following the trials and devotion of a young woman's heart against obstacles of class and circumstance.

$8.50

Mrs. Dalloway

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf's luminous novel follows a single London day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, weaving memory, consciousness, and the shadow of the Great War.

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Pygmalion

Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw's sharp, funny drama of a phonetics professor who wagers he can pass a flower girl off as a duchess by remaking her speech.

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Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy's tragic masterwork of a country girl wronged and hounded by fate, class and cruel morality, told against the fading beauty of rural Wessex.

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The Passionate Friends

The Passionate Friends

H.G.

$9.50

A pair of blue eyes

A pair of blue eyes

One of Thomas Hardy's early novels, a tale of love and social divide set against the dramatic cliffs of the Cornish coast.

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Manon Lescaut

Manon Lescaut

The Abbé Prévost's famous tale of a young man's ruinous passion for the beautiful, faithless Manon.

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Henrietta Temple

Henrietta Temple

Benjamin Disraeli's romance follows a young heir who falls suddenly and completely in love, only to find passion at war with debt, duty, and circumstance.

$9.50

The Prince and the Pauper

The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain's beloved tale of two identical boys, a Tudor prince and a beggar, who trade places and learn hard truths about power and poverty in old England.

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History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Henry Fielding's sprawling comic masterpiece follows a good-hearted foundling through misadventure, love, and English society toward the truth of his birth.

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A Room with a View

A Room with a View

A Room with a View by E.

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The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence

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Martin Eden

Martin Eden

Jack London’s ambitious novelist-hero climbs through class aspiration, self-education, romantic idealism, and social disillusion in a fierce modern classic of literary ambition.

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Far from the Madding Crowd

Far from the Madding Crowd

Thomas Hardy's beloved pastoral drama.

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Wives and Daughters

Wives and Daughters

Elizabeth Gaskell’s great domestic novel of family change, courtship, social nuance, and moral intelligence.

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The Watsons

The Watsons

Jane Austen's unfinished novel follows Emma Watson, raised in comfort and returned to a struggling family, as she navigates a country neighbourhood's marriages and manoeuvres.

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Agnes Grey

Agnes Grey

Anne Brontë's clear-eyed first novel follows a clergyman's daughter into the thankless world of the Victorian governess, where gentility masks cruelty and quiet integrity is its ow

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Our Mutual Friend

Our Mutual Friend

Charles Dickens's last completed novel, a dark and dazzling panorama of money, identity and the London river.

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Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park

Austen’s morally exacting novel of family influence, social ambition, performance, and the quiet resilience of Fanny Price.

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Persuasion

Persuasion

Jane Austen’s final completed novel returns to love after loss, measuring regret, constancy, and second chances with extraordinary emotional poise.

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Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility

In 'Sense and Sensibility,' Jane Austen masterfully contrasts the lives of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, sisters navigating love and loss in a society that prizes propriety above p

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Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë’s 'Wuthering Heights' is a tempest of love and revenge, set against the wild Yorkshire moors.

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