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Vanity fair

Chronicles the exploits of Becky Sharp, an unscrupulous young woman who is determined to achieve wealth and social success, and her sentimental companion, Amelia, who has fallen for a caddish soldier, in the classic novel set against the backdrop of English society in the early 1800s.

The talisman

The return of the native

The spy

Around the world in eighty days

Phileas Fogg and his valet Passepartout are two still-famous travellers. In their time (the 1870's) their journey was a miracle indeed.

Christmas tales

Five short and five long stories that ring with the spirit of a 19th century English Christmas.

The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The principle story recounts Dr. Jekyll's experiments into the discovery of the dual nature of man and of the dire results that come from trespassing into the realm of the unknown, forbidden to mortals.

A tale of two cities

The hunchback of Notre-Dame

Twenty thousand leagues under the sea

A nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century.

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