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Twenty Years After

The story takes place in France during the Fronde and the early reign of Louis XIV, as well as in England during the English Civil War and the years leading up to Oliver Cromwell s victory and the exe..

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The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers, novel by Alexandre Dumas père, published in French as Les Trois Mousquetaires in 1844. SUMMARY: A historical romance, it relates the adventures of four fictional swashbuckling he..

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Anne's House of Dreams

The books in the series have been hailed classics of children s literature and have been republished numerous times since their first release. The fifth novel in the series, "Anne s House of Dreams," ..

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Middlemarch

Full Middlemarch Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel written by Mary Ann Evans (pseudonym of George Eliot) and published in 1871 and 1872 in eight parts, and then in four volumes the fo..

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The Blue Castle

The fascinating story of a twenty-nine-year-old woman and her life with her severe, drab, and colourless mother and cousin was told in The Blue Castle. No one is likely to marry her. Her loved ones lo..

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The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights

According to mediaeval accounts, King Arthur fought off Saxon invasions in the sixth century and became a legendary British leader. Modern historians are divided on whether or not Arthur ever existed,..

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published for the first time in 1900. The narrative became a children's literature classic thanks to its modern fairy tale elements, such as its distinct..

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The Prince and the Pauper

Based on Mark Twain's novel, this charming social satire follows the unlikely friendship between Prince Edward of Wales and Tom Canty, the son of a beggar. The boys seize the opportunity to try out a ..

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The Princess and the Goblin

George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin is a fantastical children's book. Strahan & Co. released it in 1872 with black-and-white drawings by Arthur Hughes. Beginning in November 1870, Strahan s..

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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

American author and illustrator Howard Pyle published his work The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire in 1883. Pyle structured the classic Robin Hood ballads into a sequ..

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Black Beauty

In its entirety, Black Beauty The first big animal story for youngsters was Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, Anna Sewell's lone novel. To "induce kindness, sympathy, and an understanding tr..

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The Adventures of Pinocchio

The Adventures of Pinocchio, also known in Italian as Le avventure di Pinocchio: storia di un burattino, is a beloved children's book written by C. Collodi. It was first published in serial form in 18..

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A Little Princess

Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote the children's book A Little Princess, which was initially released as a book in 1905. The short story "Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's" was enlarged and ..

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Bleak House

Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House, published serially in 1852–1853 and as a book in 1853, is regarded as some of the author's finest writing. The Jarndyce family, who wait in vain to receive money fr..

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Candide

The best-known work by Voltaire is his satirical novel Candide, which was first published in 1759. As advocated by the German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, it is a vicious criticism of metaph..

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