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  Vittoria - A Romance of the...

  George Meredith

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  Milan under the Austrians, 1848: a singer at La Scala is to give the signal for the rising from the stage, and half the conspirators do not trust her because her mother was English. Meredith wrote it as a sequel to Sandra Belloni and took the revolution from Italians who had fought it; the crowd scenes are the best he ever did, and the politics are unusually adult — everyone is brave and nearly everyone is wrong. Fifty-six plates of storm, harbour and opera-house scenes by painters including Munch and Achenbach carry the same theatrical weather that drives Meredith's rising.

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  Under the Storm - or Steadfast's...

  Charlotte M. Yonge

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  Steadfast Kenton is fourteen, slow of speech and trusted: his father, churchwarden of Elmwood near Bristol, and the vicar have shown him the cave in Hermit's Gully where they have hidden the parish chalice and paten from the Parliament men. Then the war comes up the lane. Royalist troopers foraging round besieged Bristol plunder the farm and cut John Kenton down, and elder brother Jephthah rides off to take vengeance in a Puritan troop, leaving Stead with his sisters Patience and Rusha, the baby, a few beasts and the secret of the cave. Charlotte Yonge wrote it for young readers, to show what the civil war meant to quiet folk in cottages and farmhouses, and she did not soften it. Fifty-three plates after painters including Turner and Constable trace the cottage, field and lane of Steadfast's England, so the quiet world he defends stands before the reader in the same volume.

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  The Complete Novels of Charles...

  Charles Dickens

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  Step into the unforgettable world of Charles Dickens, where extraordinary characters, powerful stories, and timeless truths come to life.
  
  Discover The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens, a definitive collection featuring the complete novels of one of the greatest storytellers in literary history.
  
  From bustling Victorian streets and grand estates to courtrooms, orphanages, and hidden corners of society, Dickens masterfully captures the struggles, hopes, triumphs, and hardships of ordinary people. His novels are filled with unforgettable heroes and villains, gripping plots, sharp social commentary, and emotional depth that continue to resonate with readers around the world.
  
  This comprehensive collection brings together Dickens' celebrated masterpieces, allowing readers to experience the full range of his literary genius. Through tales of ambition, justice, family, redemption, friendship, and resilience, Dickens created stories that transcend time and remain as meaningful today as when they were first published.
  
  Praised for generations by readers, scholars, and critics, Charles Dickens' works have inspired countless adaptations and remain essential pillars of English literature. His vivid storytelling, memorable characters, and enduring themes have secured his place among the most beloved authors of all time.
  
  Whether you are a lifelong Dickens admirer, a student of classic literature, or discovering his novels for the first time, this complete collection offers a rich and rewarding literary journey.
  
  One author. Countless unforgettable stories. A lifetime of literary adventure.
  Add the complete novels of Charles Dickens to your library and experience the brilliance of a true literary master.

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  The First Men in the Moon

  HG Wells

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  When bankrupt Mr Bedford departs to Lympne to try and turn around his fortunes by writing a play, he has little inkling that he is about to meet a man who will send him tumbling into space! 
  Dr Cavor is a scientist without an ounce of common sense, hard at work to develop a substance opaque to gravity. Bedford soon becomes alive to the financial possibilities, but after a near fatal accident upon it's creation, Cavor suggests an alternative possibility for his new Cavorite: A journey to the moon. 
  But neither of them are prepared for the strange flora, and even stranger fauna they encounter, as the first men in the moon, will they survive to tell the tale? 
  Narrated by Michael Ward

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  Pierre - or The Ambiguities

  Herman Melville

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  A young man of a great Hudson valley family discovers he has a half-sister and destroys his own life acknowledging her. Melville wrote it straight after Moby-Dick, in fury at his reception; a reviewer's headline read Herman Melville Crazy, and his standing with the reading public never recovered. This edition binds 56 plates of painting with the text, among them Thomas Cole, Asher Brown Durand and Edward Mitchell Bannister, with subjects from View of Florence to Haymaking.

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  Redgauntlet - A Tale of the...

  Walter Scott

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  Two young men on the Solway sands in 1765, a laird with a fatal family face, and a third Jacobite rising that history does not record — because, Scott suggests, it fizzled out in a Solway inn with nobody willing to draw a sword. Half the book is letters, half is narrative, and the last chapter is the quietest death of a cause in English fiction. Scott put more of his own youth into it than into any other novel. Fifty-eight plates of eighteenth-century soldiers, volunteers and alms-giving, among them work by Gainsborough and Copley, answer the novel's own world of wavering loyalties and men who will not draw a sword.

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