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1) A life apart
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ritwik Ghosh, twenty-two and recently orphaned, finds the chance to start a new life when he arrives in England from Calcutta. But Oxford holds little of the salvation Ritwik is looking for. Instead, he moves to London, where he drops out of official existence into a shadowy hinterland of illegal immigrants. The story that Ritwik writes to stave off his loneliness begins to find ghostly echoes in his own life. And, as present and past of several...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1997.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
188 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Alcott published lots of anonymous thrillers in her lifetime, as well as the March family stories that made her famous and wealthy, but she never published her first novel, written when she was 17. It was a smart move. Even as a commercial enterprise, this sentimental melodrama, written 20 years earlier than Little Women, is of ephemeral interest. ... Edith Adelon, a sweet, submissive, impoverished orphan is patronized by wealthy friends, loved for...
3) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Deals with the adventures of a young orphan boy trying to survive amid greed and poverty in 19th-century London.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Great Expectations is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mastery and a profound examination of moral values. Here, some of Dickens's most memorable characters come to play their part in a story whose title itself reflects the deep irony that shaped Dickens's searching reappraisal of the Victorian middle class.
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