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The "native" is Clym Yeobright, who comes home from a cosmopolitan life in Paris. He; his cousin Thomasin; her fiancé, Damon Wildeve; and the willful Eustacia Vye are the protagonists in a tale of doomed love, passion, alienation, and melancholy. The tale centers on Egdon Heath, a wild, haunted Wessex moor. The heath's changing face mirrors the fortunes of the characters who populate the novel.

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First published in 1726 to 'vex the world rather than divert it' and has never been out of print. Often recommended as a book for children, Gulliver's Travels surprises the adult reader with it's insightful and incisive satire on human nature.

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Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by his long dead business partner on Christmas Eve with a warning to mend his ways.

Dicken's most popular novel was written very quickly to pay off a personal debt.

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It is London in 1886, Mr Verloc owns an adult bookstore but finds it hard to earn enough to keep his extended family. The London underworld is populated with anarchists, communists and other extremists all suspicious of each other. Mr Verloc pretends to be a spy and is paid by each group to spy on the others. All is going well for Mr Verloc until he is forced to play a key role in a terrorist attack.

Conrad got the idea for the the central incident from an actual event in 1894 when anarchist terrorists attempted to blow up the Greenwich Observatory in London.

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Lily Bart, beautiful, witty, and sophisticated, is accepted by "old money" and courted by the growing tribe of nouveaux riches. But as she nears 30, her foothold becomes precarious; a poor girl with expensive tastes, she needs a husband to preserve her social standing and to maintain her life in the luxury she has come to expect.

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Catherine Morland visits Bath, England for the first time with family friends Mr and Mrs Allen. Catherine is pursued by Henry Tilney, who invites her to his father's estate at Northanger Abbey. Catherine has been reading too much gothic fiction and her overactive imagination takes over.

Jane Austen's first novel but only properly published after her death. The novel is a satire of the emotionally charged gothic novels of the time.

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An Egyptologist, attempting to raise from the dead the mummy of Tera, an ancient Egyptian queen, finds a fabulous gem and is stricken senseless by an unknown force. Amid bloody and eerie scenes, his daughter is possessed by Tera's soul, and her fate depends upon bringing Tera's mummified body to life.

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A hunting party in the Canadian wilderness separates to track moose, and one member is abducted by the Wendigo (a mythical creature appearing in the mythology of the Algonquian people.)

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Paul Dombey is head of a successful shipping company and desperately wants a son to pass the company on to. His first child is a daughter but his second is a son (his wife dies in childbirth) but, his joy is short-lived as his son is very poorly and dies aged 6. Dombey is heartbroken and pushes his daughter away.

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A passionate tale of the beautiful, headstrong farmer Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors; Gabriel Oak a young shepherd, William Boldwood a prosperous farmer, and army Sergeant Francis (Frank) Troy.

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A complex novel set in the period 1830 to 1855 in Missouri, United States. Attitudes to race and colour are all brought to a head when a local Judge is murdered. One of the first novels to use fingerprints to identify the killer.

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Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin’s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him.

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The story of Philip Carey, an orphan with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as would-be artist, Philip settles in London to train as a doctor. In London, Philip meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a disastrous relationship that will change his life forever.

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Billy and Saxon Roberts leave the city of Oakland looking for a farm of their own. The story follows their search through Central and Northern California until they settle in the Valley of the Moon.
Valley of the Moon is where Jack London eventually settled to raise record crops and champion livestock.

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Archibald "Archie" Moffam has recently married Lucille Brewster and gets into no end of trouble when he tries to impress her art-collecting, hotel-owning millionaire father Daniel Brewster.

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