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Burmese Days
By George Orwell
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Published 29-Nov-2001
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Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Dr Veraswami, a black enthusiast for Empire. The doctor needs help. U Po Kyin, Sub-divisional Magistrate of Kyauktada, is plotting his downfall. The only thing that can save him is European patronage: membership of the hitherto all-white Club.
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All the Sad Young Men
By F Scott Fitzgerald
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Published 28-Mar-2013
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Also containing 'The Baby Party', 'Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr - nce of W - les', 'The Adjuster', 'Hot and Cold Blood', 'The Sensible Thing' and 'Gretchen's Forty Winks' - all of which describe in various ways the 1920s society that Fitzgerald himself inhabited - All the Sad Young Men is a masterpiece of twentieth-century American fiction.
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Cabala
By Thorton Wilder
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Published 10-Jul-2012
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Frankenstein
By Mary Shelley
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Published 26-Jan-2006
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Victor Frankenstein is obsessed with the secret of resurrecting the dead. But when he makes a new 'man' out of plundered corpses, his hideous creation fills him disgust. Rejected by all humanity, the creature sets out to destroy Frankenstein and everyone he loves. And the hunter becomes prey in a chase that carries them to the end of the earth.
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Winesburg, Ohio
By Sherwood Anderson
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Published 13-Apr-2012
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A landmark work of American naturalism and a priceless chronicle of rural life, Winesburg, Ohio has been compared to the writings of Turgenev, Chekhov, Dreiser and Twain, and hugely influenced authors such as Steinbeck, Hemingway and Faulkner.
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Man With Two Left Feet
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Published 29-May-2009
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A collection of stories that concern relationships, sports and household pets.
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Mike at Wrykyn
By P G Wodehouse
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Published 30-Sep-2011
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A story of the Jackson cricketing dynasty that describes the adventures of Mike Jackson at boarding school as he makes his way up the sporting ladder to the first eleven.
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Way We Live Now
By Anthony Trollope
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Published 07-Mar-2013
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The Way We Live Now is both a satire of the literary world of London in the 1870s and a bold indictment of the new power of speculative finance in English life. Trollope is described as the quintessential Victorian novelist.
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Something Fishy
By P Wodehouse
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Published 03-Mar-2008
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A butler named Keggs who, having overheard the planning of a scheme, later decides to try and make money out of his knowledge.
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Prefect's Uncle
By P G Wodehouse
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Published 28-May-2010
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The 'Beckford College' is a private school for boys. A mischievous young boy called Farnie, who turns out to be the uncle of the older 'Bishop' Gethryn, a prefect, cricketer and popular figure in the school, arrives at the school. His arrival, along with that of another youngster, leads to much excitement and scandal in the school.
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