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Books I studied for my English Literature degree
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
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everyone's favourite classical novel!
Adam Bede (Oxford World's Classics)Adam Bede (Oxford World's Classics) by George Eliot
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...the well-worn tale of a lovely dairymaid seduced by a careless squire
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oxford World's Classics)The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oxford World's Classics) by Oscar Wilde
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a very interesting presentation of the human desire to remain young
Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Thackeray
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a hefty work that studies Realism by presenting a very wide range of characters
The Mill on the Floss (Oxford World's Classics)The Mill on the Floss (Oxford World's Classics) by George Eliot
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a tale of a young girl who doesn't seem to fit in with society's expectations
Middlemarch (Oxford World's Classics)Middlemarch (Oxford World's Classics) by George Eliot
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In a panoramic sweep of the years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832, George Eliot explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life; art, religion, science, politics, self, and society
North and South (Oxford World's Classics)North and South (Oxford World's Classics) by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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the story of a young woman forced to abandon her idyllic country life in return for the harsh polluted environment of the newly industrialised city.
Oliver Twist (Oxford World's Classics)Oliver Twist (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Dickens
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something everyone is familiar with. Highlights the plight of the typical 19th century orphan by concentrating on the New Poor laws of 1834
Jude the Obscure (Oxford world's classics)Jude the Obscure (Oxford world's classics) by Thomas Hardy
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A novel that was extremely contraversial when it first appeared. Dealing with that all too familiar Victorian taboo of sex, it explores one man's morals in a world of female deceit and desire.
Jane Eyre (Oxford World's Classics)Jane Eyre (Oxford World's Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
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Explores the intense passion and complex emotion of one girl from childhood all the way to marriage and eventually, motherhood.
Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus (Oxford World's Classics)Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus (Oxford World's Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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It is a .. study of how man uses his power, through science, to manipulate and pervert his own destiny