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Barchester Towers
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This is the second in Trollope’s ‘Barsetshire’ series of novels.
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Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915
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The title is, I think, self explanatory. The nurse in question went out to France at the beginning of the war and remained there until May 1915 after the second battle of Ypres when she went back to a Base Hospital and the diary ceases.
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In Chancery
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‘The Forsyte Saga' is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties.
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King Lear
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King Lear is widely held as the greatest of Shakespeare’s tragedies; to some, it is the greatest play ever written.
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The Man of Property
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The ‘man of property' of the title is Soames Forsyte, a partner in the family law firm. He is married to Irene but the marriage is not happy and during the book she falls in love with another man.
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The Princess and the Goblin
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George MacDonald's fairy stories and fantasy have inspired a number of writers including C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien...
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The Prisoner of Zenda
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The Prisoner of Zenda tells the story of Rudolf Rassendyll, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania, a country not a thousand miles from Bavaria.
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Spurgeon's Sermons
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Charles Spurgeon was a popular Baptist minister in London in mid-Victorian times; his ministry was highly influential and had a significant effect on many families in London and further afield. The sermons in this collection were preached buring May 1898 and published immediately at one penny (1d.) each.
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A Tale of Two Cities
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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens; it is moreover a moral novel strongly concerned with themes of guilt, shame, redemption and patriotism.
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To Let
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‘The Forsyte Saga' is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties.
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