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The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Chiltern Classic Ser.
Set in a fictional rural English town, The Mayor of Casterbridge is considered one of Thomas Hardy's masterpieces. After drunken young hay-trusser Michael Henchard loses his wife and baby daughter after auctioning them off at the county fair, he vows not to touch liquor again. But when they return 18 ye ...Show more
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
$64.33 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Chiltern Classic Ser.
Christie's first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introduces Hercule Poirot, a Belgian investigator tasked with solving the death of his host, Emily Cavendish. 'The great interest created in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now partly subsided,' says an excerpt fr ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Chiltern Classic Ser.
Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret: that all the marks of age will now be reflected in th ...Show more
The Secret Garden (HB) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Category: Classics | Series: Chiltern Classic Ser.
At the turn of the 20th century, Mary Lennox is a neglected and unloved 10-year-old girl, born in British India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her and made an effort to ignore the girl. She is cared for primarily by native servants, who allow her to become spoiled, demanding, and self-cente ...Show more
The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Chiltern Classic Ser.
First published in 1609, "The Sonnets" of William Shakespeare are a collection of 154 loosely connected 14 line poems. Considered by many to be among some of the greatest love poetry ever written much debate surrounds the context of the poetry. It has been suggested that the work may be semi-autobiograp ...Show more
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
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Category: Classics | Series: Chiltern Classic Ser.
Fleeing a disastrous marriage, Helen Huntingdon retreats to the desolate mansion, Wildfell Hall, with her son, Arthur. There, she makes her living as a painter. Finding it difficult to avoid her neighbors, she is soon an object of speculation and gossip. Bront� portrays Helen's eloquent struggle for ind ...Show more
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Classics | Series: Chiltern Classic Ser.
An old sailor named Billy Bones comes to lodge in the rural Admiral Benbow Inn on the Bristol Channel, in England. He tells the innkeeper's son, Jim Hawkins, to keep a lookout for "a one-legged seafaring man". A former shipmate, Black Dog, confronts Bones and engages in a violent fight with him. After B ...Show more
Wuthering Heights (HB) by Emily Bronte
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Category: Classics | Series: Chiltern Classic Ser.
I have just returned from a visit to my landlord-the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist's heaven: and Mr. ...Show more