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In Search of Lost Time
By Marcel Proust
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Published 02-Oct-2003
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A work of Proust that is translated from French original into English.
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Great Gatsby
By F Scott Fitzgerald
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Published 24-Feb-2000
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Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby is the bright star of the Jazz Age, but as writer Nick Carraway is drawn into the decadent orbit of his Long Island mansion, where the party never seems to end, he finds himself faced by the mystery of Gatsby's origins and desires.
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Great Expectations
By Charles Dickens
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Published 30-Nov-2002
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A terrifying encounter with the escaped convict Abel Magwitch in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decrepit Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella at Satis House; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor - these form a series of events that change the orphaned Pip's life forever.
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Three Men in a Boat
By Jerome K Jerome
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Published 25-Nov-1999
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Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a 'T'. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts and tins of pineapple chunks.
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Magnificent Meaulnes (Le Grand Meaulnes)
By Henri Alain-Fournier
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Published 05-Nov-2009
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When Augustin Meaulnes arrives in Francois' home, it changes everything. On one of his escapades, Meaulnes gets lots in the countryside and finds himself at a party where he meets the girl of his dreams. He is haunted by her memory and devotes his life to finding her again.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
By George Orwell
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Published 03-Jan-2013
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'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past' Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party.
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Stoner
By John L Williams
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Published 05-Jul-2012
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William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death his colleagues remember him rarely.
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Count of Monte Cristo
By Alexandre Dumas
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Published 11-Jun-1997
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The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Edmund Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In his campaign of vengeance, he becomes an anonymous agent of fate.
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Master and Margarita
By Mikhail Bulgakov
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Published 27-Sep-2012
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Both a satirical romp and a daring analysis of the nature of good and evil, innocence and guilt, The Master and Margarita is the crowning achievement of one of the greatest Russian writers of the twentieth century. This new translation is based on the recently restored unexpurgated edition.
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Persuasion
By Jane Austen
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Published 26-Apr-2012
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Tells the story of Anne Elliot, who, persuaded to break off her engagement to the man she loved because he was not successful enough, has never forgotten him. When he returns, he brings with him a tantalizing second chance of happiness.
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