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First published in 1719, "The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" is a novel by English writer Daniel Defoe that saw the light of day under the considerably longer original title: "The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Being the Second and Last Part of His Life, And of the Strange Surprising Accounts of his Travels Round three...
John Marcher, the protagonist, is reacquainted with May Bartram, a woman he knew ten years earlier, who...
Originally published in 1858, "My Lady Ludlow" is a delightful novel by Elizabeth Gaskell.
"My Lady Ludlow" chronicles the daily life of the widowed Countess of Ludlow of Hanbury. Lady Ludlow is absolute mistress of Hanbury Court and a resolute opponent of anything that might disturb the...
The younger sister, Ann Eliza, has encountered a sickly, but educated clockmaker who sells her a clock. At first, knowledge of his personality and previous lifestyle are unknown to the sisters, but they slowly befriend the lonely man and his visits to the home are frequent...
The Industrial Revolution Is Upon the Victorian Society
"I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness. I think God has forsaken this place. I believe I have seen hell and it's white, it's snow-white." - Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
Forced to move from the traditional southern England to the north, in the industrialized Milton, Margaret Hale slowly but
...Compelling in its imaginative power and bold naturalism, the novel opens in the...
A rural young Englishwoman experiences her first love with a worldly engineer in this tale from the beloved author of Cranford and Wives and Daughters.
It is the 1840s in England, and the time has come for nineteen-year-old Paul Manning to make his own way in the world. He takes a position working for Edward Holdsworth, an engineer overseeing expansion of a railway line into the countryside. Paul’s work also takes
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (née Stevenson; 29 September...
First published in 1852, "The Blithedale Romance" is a novel by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne's third novel and third major "romance," as he called the form. is set in a utopian farming commune based on Brook Farm, an intentional community outside Boston of which Hawthorne was a founding member and...
Lord Montbarry breaks off his engagement to Agnes Lockwood to marry the Countess Narona. The couple end a continental tour in Venice where they live reclusively in a large, decaying palace. They are accompanied by Baron Rivar, brother of the Countess, and by Ferrari, their courier.
Agnes learns from Montbarry's brother, Henry Westwick, that Montbarry, whose life was insured for £10,000 in favour of his wife, has died of bronchitis. The
...Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Charles Dickens, 'The Battle of Life.'
Battle is the only one of the five Christmas Books that has no supernatural or explicitly religious elements. (One scene takes place at Christmas time, but it isn't the final scene.) The story bears some resemblance to The Cricket on the Hearth in two aspects: it has a non-urban setting & it's resolved with a romantic twist. It's even less of a social
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