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"When you looked down into the stone, you looked into a yellow deep that drew your eyes into a yellow so deep that drew your eyes into it so that they saw nothing else." The moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night the priceless stone is stolen again, and when Sergeant Cuff us brought in to investigate the crime,...
7) Oliver Twist
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Retells the adventures of the orphan boy who is forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.
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Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer. Although subtitled 'A Novel without a Hero', Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives: through the retiring Amelia Sedley and the brilliant Becky Sharp, Thackeray examines...
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"Inspector Treadles, Charlotte Holmes's friend and collaborator, has been found locked in a room with two dead men, both of whom worked with his wife at the great manufacturing enterprise she has recently inherited. Rumors fly. Had Inspector Treadles killed the men because they had opposed his wife's initiatives at every turn? Had he killed in a fit of jealous rage, because he suspected Mrs. Treadles of harboring romantic feelings for one of the men?...
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"From award-winning author R.F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious...
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Describes the efforts of the British East India Company to acquire the secrets and seedlings to begin producing their own teas in the mid-nineteenth century and details the role of Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener and botanist who was disguised and sent in to smuggle tea plants out of China and transport them to the foothills of the Himalayas.
16) The dress lodger
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In the midst of a growing cholera epidemic in England in 1831, Gustine, a prostitute, agrees to provide cadavers for surgeon Henry Chiver in exchange for his help in saving her son, a child born with a rare heart condition.
20) Earl interrupted
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"Captain Robert Ashton, Earl of Darington, knows finding a bride in London will not be easy--not since he has been notoriously dubbed as the "Pirate Earl". What he didn't expect was to get abducted--and to have his escape go horribly awry when an innocent lady gets caught in the crossfire. Amateur physician Emma St. James is on her way to meet her betrothed when she is rescued by an injured gentleman. Despite her shock after discovering he is the...
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