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Since the invention of the clock, humans have become keenly aware of time-both how much they have and how quickly it slips away. In this classic book on time management, Bennett instructs his readers on how to live life to the fullest, given that there are twenty-four hours in a day and always so much to accomplish. Managing time, not money, is the true route to happiness. You can get more money. But time is parceled out at the same rate for everyone, no matter their class or income. Time, the rarest commodity, cannot be made to last, but it can be lived. And by living it properly, anyone can improve their level of satisfaction and happiness.

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Josef K is arrested one morning by two unidentified agents for an unspecified crime. K is left at home to await instructions and begins his search to find out what he was arrested for. His investigations prove fruitless and the novel ends with K's execution on his thirtieth birthday still in ignorance of his crime.

The Trial was one of Kafka's works edited and published after his death by his friend Max Brod.

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An orphan girl's progress from custody of cruel relatives to an oppressive boarding school culminates in a troubled career as a governess. Jane's first assignment at Thornfield, where the proud and cynical master harbors a scandalous secret, draws readers ever deeper into a compelling exploration of the mysteries of the human heart.

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Set during the American Civil War, Peyton Farquhar, a civilian farmer and Confederate sympathizer has been condemned to death by hanging from Owl Creek Bridge for attempted sabotage. When the execution takes place, the rope breaks and he begins his escape toward home.

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John Durbeyfield, a ne'er-do-well learns that he is the descendent of an ancient noble family, the d’Urbervilles. Durbeyfield exploits his gentle daughter Tess's beauty for social advancement in this masterpiece of tragic fiction. Tess of the d'Urbervilles defied convention to focus on the rural lower class, Hardy's sympathetic portrait of a victim of Victorian hypocrisy offers compelling reading.

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Set in the fictitious town of Coketown, Hard Times is Dicken's view of life in British industrial towns in the 1850s. Popular at the time with all but the critics who dismissed Hard Times as "sullen socialism".

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A classic example of a "Golden Age" detective fiction novel. Mystery, murder, and romance in and around the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed on the border between England and Scotland.

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Moving, heart-felt prose poems by the beloved and much admired Bengali poet and mystic who first achieved international fame (and a Nobel Prize) in 1913. Reminiscent of Blake and Gibran, they include many works that are almost biblical in their rhythms, phrasing and images. With an introduction by William Butler Yeats.

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Embittered by a false accusation, disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a long twilight life alone with his loom and his gold. Silas hoards a treasure that kills his spirit until fate steals it from him and replaces it with a golden-haired founding child. Where she came from, who her parents were, and who really stole the gold are the secrets that permeate this moving tale of guilt and innocence. A moral allegory of the redemptive power of love, it is also a finely drawn picture of early nineteenth-century England in the days when spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses, and of a simple way of life that was soon to disappear.

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A collection of stories describing the bitter futility of life in the Mid-Western farmlands of the United States in the late 19th century.

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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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It is London in 1886, Mr Verloc owns a 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 incidentin this novel from an actual event in 1894 when anarchist terrorists attempted to blow up the Greenwich Observatory in London.

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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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