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| Charles Dickens. An orphan must stand up for himself. He finds himself amongst a group of criminals led by Fagin and Sikes, though in the end he finds out who his mother was. |
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| Charles Dickens. Pip is raised by his sister but finds patronage in an unlikely form of a previous convict, who, unbeknownst to Pip, pays for the young man to become a gentleman. |
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| Emily Bronte. Story of love and hatred. Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw love each other, but both marry others and then they die. |
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| Charlotte Bronte. Story of a gullible governess who's true love turns out to be a married man. |
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| Anne Bronte. Semi-autobiographical. Written about a governess and the struggles and misfortunes she faces. |
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| Robert Browning. Collection of 51 poems where each poem is a different speaker. |
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| Robert Browning. Narrative poem about the murder trial of Count Guido Franceschini in Rome. |
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| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Mystery novel. Continues in the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. |
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| Charles Darwin. Scientific publication on evolution and where humans fit in the picture. |
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| Charge of the Light Brigade |
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| Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Disaster of the British Calvary in the Crimean war. |
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| Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Poem. A man describes, to an unspecified audience, his discontent and restlessness upon returning to his kingdom, Ithaca, after his far-ranging travels. Facing old age, he yearns to explore again. |
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| Rudyard Kipling. Collection of stories that use animals to tell moral lessons. |
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| Robert Louis Stevenson. Pirates, treasure, Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver. |
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| The Importance of Being Earnest |
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| Oscar Wilde. Play. The characters maintaining fictitious identities to escape unwelcome social obligations. |
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| George Eliot. A man goes to great lengths as he discovers his birth identity. |
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| George Eliot. Novel that follows a young woman's life who is dedicated to helping others. |
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| The Mayor of Casterbridge |
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| Thomas Hardy. Influenced by excessive alcohol, a man sells his wife and daughter to a sailor, only to realize his mistake with horror when he is sober the following day. He spends the next two decades trying to conceal what he has done but must ultimately face the consequences for his actions when his wife and daughter reappear in his life. |
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