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Adam Bede
The seemingly peaceful country village of Hayslope is the setting for this ambitious first novel by one of the nineteenth century’s great novelists. With sympathy,…
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Bleak House
The labyrinthine, ingenious plot of Bleak House focuses on the seemingly endless lawsuit Jarndyce and Jarndyce, an inheritance dispute that has been moving through the…
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Cranford
Elizabeth Gaskell’s episodic second novel, sometimes dismissed as nostalgically “charming,” is now considered by many critics to be her most sophisticated work. The country town…
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Emma
Jane Austen’s Emma (1816) tells the story of the coming of age of Emma Woodhouse, “handsome, clever, and rich,” who “had lived nearly twenty-one years…
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Hard Times
Despite the title, Dickens’s portrayal of early industrial society here is less relentlessly grim than that in novels by contemporaries such as Elizabeth Gaskell or…
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Investigating Cholera in Broad Street: A History in Documents
This book features various accounts of a cholera outbreak in West London that killed over 500 people in ten days during the late summer of…
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John Halifax, Gentleman
This 1856 novel, one of the most beloved of the Victorian period, follows the life, from childhood to death, of an orphaned boy who grows…
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Mary Barton
Mary Barton first appeared in 1848, and has since become one of the best known novels on the ‘condition of England,’ part of a nineteenth-century…
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Nineteenth-Century Stories by Women
“The female novelist of the nineteenth century may have frequently encountered opposition and interference from the male literary establishment, but the female short story writer,…
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Phoebe Junior
Margaret Oliphant, one of the most prolific and popular Victorian novelists, essayists, and reviewers, has been compared both in her day and our own to…
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The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Concise Volume B, 3e – Modified eBook International Edition
This modified eBook is intended for readers outside of the United States and Canada. If you are within the United States or Canada, please see…
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The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: One-Volume Compact – Second Edition
Guided by the latest scholarship, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature is acclaimed for its breadth and its deep attention to literature’s historical and cultural…
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The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought: From Machiavelli to Nietzsche – Modified Ebook Edition
This modified ebook version of The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought: From Machiavelli to Nietzsche includes 90% of the material available in the…
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The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories
The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories beautifully demonstrates the astonishing variety and ingenuity of Victorian short stories. This collection brings together works focused on…
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich Trade Edition
This is a special Trade eBook edition of Kirsten Lodge’s acclaimed translation of Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories. A separate…
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Villette
Charlotte Brontë’s contemporary George Eliot wrote of Villette, “There is something almost preternatural in its power.” The deceptive stillness and security of a girls’ school…
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Wuthering Heights – Ed. Newman
Over a hundred and fifty years after its initial publication, Emily Brontë’s turbulent portrayal of the Earnshaws and the Lintons, two northern English households nearly…