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Under the powerful influence of rum furmity, Michael Henchard, a hay-trusser by trade, sells his wife Susan and their child Elizabeth-Jane to Newson, a sailor, for five guineas.Years later, Susan, now a window, arrives in Casterbridge with Elizabeth-Jane, to seek her legal husband. To their suprise, Henchard is now the Mayor of Casterbridge and, follwing the sale of his wife, took a twenty-one-yea..»»

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is Mark Twain's exhilarating Missisipi adventure story and the companion to Tom Sawyer. In hiding from his drunken and tyrannical father, Huck Finn escapes to Jakcson's Island, where he meets Jim, a runaway slave. Together the boys set off on a raft down the Mississipi, in a daring bid for freedom from so-called 'sivilization'. Actio..»»

Emma Wodehouse has led a simple life, but during the course of this she at last reaps her share of the world's vexations. In this comedy of manners, the heroine learns to come to terms with the reality of other people, and with her own erring nature.»»

A dark and compelling of a young intellectual tempted towards crime through severe penury. Raskolnikov, a former student who is morbidly self-obsessed, murders an old woman money-lender with a borrowed hatchet in a desperate attempt to free himself from poverty. From the openin pages Dostoyevski attaches us unflinchingly to his intense and mysterious anti-hero, creating a web of intimacy an..»»

In this novel, Dickens describes one boy growing up in a world which is by turns magical, fearful and grimly realistic. In a book which is part autobiographical, the novelist transmutes his life-experience into a series of comic and sentimental adventures.»»

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. But conflict is evitable when Paul seeks to escape his mother's suffocating grasp through relat..»»

An ancient parchment bearing a mysterious cryptogram maps the most hazardous journey of Professor Lidenbrock's career. With his nephew and a guide the Professor travels to Iceland. Their journey to centre of the earth begins on the summit of a volcano and takes them down through secret passages, across of a desolate underground sea populkated by prehistoric marine monsters, on what may ..»»

These fantasies and true-to-life fables were created by Oscar VVİlde for his own sons, Here is the tale of the Prince who is not as happy as he seems, of the Selfish Giant who learns how to love children, and of the Star-Child who suffers bitter trials when he rejects his parents. »»

Gentle linen weaver Silas Marner is wrongly accused of a heinous theft, and he exiles himself from the world-until he finds redemption and spiritual rebirth through his unselfish love for an abandoned child who mysteriously appears one day at his isolated cottage. Somber, yet hopeful, Eliot's realistic depiction of an irretrievable past, tempered with the magical elements of myth and fairy tal..»»

Oliver Twist is an orphan who was born in a vvorkhouse. After an unhappy apprenticeship, Oliver runs away to London vvhere he falls in vvith thieves, headed by Fagin. He is rescued by Mr Brownlow but the gang kidnap him back. Oliver discovers the identity of his parents and the gang is exposed.»»

Three men trek to the remote African interior in search of a lost friend - and reach, at the end of a perilous journey, an unknown land cut off from the world, where terrible dangers threaten anyone who ventures near the spectacular diamond mines of King Solomon... »»

"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it". So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, "Moby-Dick" is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and d..»»