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Introduction by John Irving - Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of great expectations--until he is inexplicably elevated to wealth by an anonymous benefactor. Full of unforgettable characters--including a terrifying convict named Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham, and her beautiful but manipulative niece, Estella, Great Expectations is a tale of intrigue, unattainable love, and all of the happiness money can't buy. "Great Expectations has the most wonderful and mo...
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Great Expectations (Oprah's Picks)

By: Charles Dickens

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Oneworld : 2007

Seller ID: 0153321

ISBN-13: 9781847490049

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

One of Dickens's greatest novels, "Great Expectations" is also one of his most autobiographical stories, as the young protagonist Pip escapes from his troubled childhood experiences to learn for himself the perils of love, the dangers of wealth, and how to sort his friends from his enemies. Just as Dickens never quite recovered from the traumas of the debtor's prison and child labor, so Pip learns that his early life cut more deeply than he realizes, with unavoidable consequences. Through the lives of its unforgettable charactersPip, Magwitch, Miss Havisham, Estella"Great Expectations" charts ...
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Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens

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Publisher: Wordsworth Classics : 1995

Seller ID: 0079104

ISBN-13: 9781853262647

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Introduction and Notes by Dr T.C.B. Cook Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic triumph and firmly established Dickens as a 'literary gentleman'. It has a full supporting cast of delectable characters that range from the iniquitous Wackford Squeers and his family, to the delightful Mrs Nickleby, taking in the eccentric Crummles and his travelling players, the Mantalinis, the Kenwigs and many more. Combining these with typically Dickensian elements of burlesque and farce, the novel is eminently...
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The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens

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Publisher: Avenel : 1983

Seller ID: 0147777

ISBN-13: 9780517408001

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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The Outport People

By: Claire Mowat

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Seal : 1988

Seller ID: 0157861

ISBN-13: 9780770423223

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Good

Romeo And Juliet: Notes

By: Coles Notes

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Publisher: Coles Notes : 1995

Seller ID: 0072625

ISBN-13: 9780774032285

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Condition: Good

Sons And Lovers

By: D H Lawrence

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Woodsworth : 1993

Seller ID: 0081826

ISBN-13: 9781853260476

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Introduction and Notes by Dr Howard J. Booth, University of Kent at Canterbury. 'When you have experienced Sons and Lovers you have lived through the agonies of the young Lawrence striving to win free from his old life'. Richard Aldington This novel is Lawrence's semi-autobiographical masterpiece in which he explores emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and his suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different lovers. Lawrence's novels are perhaps the most powerful exploration in the genre in English of family, class, sexuality and relationships in yo...
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Sons And Lovers

By: D H Lawrence

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Penguin Classics : 2000

Seller ID: 0131501

ISBN-13: 9780141182469

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Sons And Lovers

By: D H Lawrence

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Cambridge : 0000

Seller ID: 0144688

ISBN-13: 9780521432214

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very good

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Sons And Lovers

By: D H Lawrence

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Publisher: Arcturus : 2013

Seller ID: 0155206

ISBN-13: 9781782124214

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul - determined they will not follow their father into working down the coal mines.
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The First Lady Chatterley

By: D H Lawrence

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : 1987

Seller ID: 0126024

ISBN-13: 9780140037319

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

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The Prussian Officer

By: D H Lawrence

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin : 1968

Seller ID: 0137389

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

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Women in Love

By: D H Lawrence

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Penguin : 2000

Seller ID: 0128482

ISBN-13: 9780140283372

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Moll Flanders

By: Daniel Defoe

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Publisher: Pyramid Books : 1965

Seller ID: 0017111

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Fair

Moll Flanders

By: Daniel Defoe

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Publisher: Arcturus : 2009

Seller ID: 0151365

ISBN-13: 9781848373167

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Defoe wrote this after his work as a journalist and pamphleteer. By 1722, Defoe had become recognised as a novelist, with the success of Robinson Crusoe in 1719. His political work was tapering off at this point, due to the fall of both Whig and Tory party leaders with whom he had been associated; Robert Walpole was beginning his rise, and Defoe was never fully at home with the Walpole group. Defoe's Whig views are nevertheless evident in the story of Moll, and the novel's full title gives some insight into this and the outline of the plot: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Fland...
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Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Premier : 1992

Seller ID: 0096843

ISBN-13: 9780307290816

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Category: Classics&Literature