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Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (published as L. M. Montgomery).
Written for all ages, it has been considered a classic children's novel since the mid-twentieth century.
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North and South is a social novel published in 1854 by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell.
With Wives and Daughters (1865) and Cranford (1853), it is one of her best-known novels and was adapted for television three times (1966, 1975 and 2004).
The later version renewed...
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Anne of Avonlea is a Canadian and American novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery. It was first published in 1909.
FollowingAnne of Green Gables (1908), the book covers the second chapter in the life ofAnne Shirley.
This book followsAnne from the age of 16 to 18, during the...
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Anne of the Island is the third book in theAnne of Green Gables series, written by Lucy Maud Montgomery aboutAnne Shirley.
Anne of the Island was published in 1915, seven years after the bestsellingAnne of Green Gables. In the continuing story ofAnne Shirley,Anne...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil...
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The Scarlet Letter is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850.
Set in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne who conceives a daughter through an affair...
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Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written as a boys' novel and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886.
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Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of buccaneers and buried gold.
Its influence is enormous on popular perceptions of pirates, including such elements as treasure maps marked with an X, schooners, the Black...
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Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's only novel, was published in 1847 under the pseudonym "Ellis Bell".
AlthoughWuthering Heights is now a classic of English literature, contemporaneous reviews were deeply polarised; it was controversial because of its unusually stark...
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The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The novel follows a New England family and their ancestral home.
In the book, Hawthorne explores themes of guilt, retribution, and atonement, and...
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Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) is a novel by American writer Mark Twain.
Its central intrigue revolves around two boys - one, born into slavery, with 1/32 black ancestry; the other, white, born to be the master of the house.
The two boys, who look similar, are switched at...
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The Prince and the Pauper is a novel by American author Mark Twain.
It was first published in 1881 in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States.
The novel represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction.
Set in 1537, it tells the story of two...
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Our Mutual Friend, written in the years 1864-65, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis.
It centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, quoting from the character...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River.
It is set in the 1840s in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy.
In the novel Tom Sawyer...
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The Lost World is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1912, concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive.
It was...
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After a long series of civil dissension--after many battles, whose issue involved the fate of thousands--after the destruction of nearly all the English nobility in the contest between the two Roses, the decisive battle of Bosworth Field was fought on the 22d of August,...
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Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but even then no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by scattered houses and venerable pollards, in the early spring of 1467, presented the rural scene for the sports and pastimes of the...
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'HO, Diomed, well met! Do you sup with Glaucus tonight?' said a young man of small stature, who wore his tunic in those loose and effeminate folds which proved him to be a gentleman and a coxcomb.
'Alas, no! dear Clodius; he has not invited me,' replied Diomed, a man of...
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Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville.
The book is sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the white whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off...
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The position of Ancient Egypt was unique, not in one, but in every sense. To begin at the very foundation of life in that country, we find that the soil was unlike any other on earth in its origin. Every acre of fruitful land between the first cataract and the sea had...
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