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Sense and Sensibility
from the back cover: Sometimes the Dashwood girls do not seem like sisters. Elinor is all calmness and reason, and can be relied upon for practical, common sense opinions. Marianne, on the other hand, is all sensibility, full of passionate and romantic feeling. She has no time for dull common sense - or for middle-aged men of thirty-five, long past the age of marriage. True love can only be…
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- 9780194792332
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- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 5
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- AUS
Wuthering Heights
from the back cover: The wind is strong on the Yorkshire moors. There are few trees, and fewer houses, to block its path. There is one house, however, that does not hide from the wind. It stands out from the hill and challenges the wind to do its worst. The house is called Wuthering Heights. When Mr Earnshaw brings a strange, small, dark child back home to Wuthering Heights, it seems he has…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792349
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- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 5
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- BRO
David Copperfield
from the back cover: 'Please, Mr Murdstone! Don't beat me! I've tried to learn my lessons, really I have, sir!' sobs David. Although he is only eight years old, Mr Murdstone does beat him, and David is so frightened that he bites his cruel stepfather's hand. For that, he is kept locked in his room for five days and nights, and nobody is allowed to speak to him. As David grows up, he lear…
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- 9780194792196
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- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 3
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- DIC
Peter Pan & Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them through the sky to Never-Never Land, where they find Red Indians, wolves, Mermaids and... Pirates. The leader of the pirates is the sinister Captain Hook. His hand was bitten off by a crocodile, who, as Captain Hook explains 'liked me arm so much that he has…
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- 9781853261206
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- 269p; ill; bw; pbk
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- 823 STI T
Wide Sargasso Sea
ean Rhys' novels and stories continue to win new popularity and critical acclaim as fresh generations of readers discover her poignant and disturbing insights into women's lives. In Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys brilliantly and imaginatively constructs the girlhood and marriage of Antoinette Bertha Cosway, the mysterious madwoman in Jane Eyre. It is a romantic and tragic novel of spellbinding intensity.
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- 9780141182858
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- 150p; bw; pbk
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- 823 RHY W
Ethan Frome
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious, and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie. But when Zeenie's vivacious cousin enters their household as a "hired girl", Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent. In one of American fiction's finest and most intense narratives…
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- 9780142437803
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- 99p; bw; pbk
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- 823 WHA E
Fathers and Sons
A vivid, timeless depiction of the clash between the older Russian aristocracy and the youthful radicalism that foreshadowed the revolution. This controversial classic offers modern readers much to reflect upon amidst today's tumultuous, changing world.
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- 97801441337
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- 212p; bw; pbk
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- -
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- 823 TUR F
The Invisible Man
This masterpiece of science fiction is the fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a serum to render himself invisible, and his descent into madness that follows.
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- 9780141439983
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- 161p; bw; pbk
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- 823 WEL T
The House of Mirth
n The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton depicts the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York with precision and wit, even as she movingly portrays the obstacles that impeded women's choices at the turn of the century. The beautiful, much-desired Lily Bart has been raised to be one of the perfect wives of the wealthy upper class, but her spark of character and independent drive prevents her from …
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- 9780375753756
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- 324p; bw; pbk
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- 823 WHA T
Candide and Other Stories
Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolen…
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- 9780199535613
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- 287p;bw;hc
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- 823 VOL C
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