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The Pickwick papers

1999
Retired business man, Samuel Pickwick and the other members of the Pickwick club embark on a series of comic adventures in late Georgian England.

Confessions

2000
Presents the autobiography of eighteenth-century novelist and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, chronicles his life from his childhood in Geneva and literary success in Paris to his persecution and exile by the government, and includes textual notes, bibliography, chronology, and explanatory notes.

Twenty thousand leagues under the seas

1998
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.

A Journal of the plague year

2010
Supposedly an eye-witness account of the devastation of the Great Plague of London in 1665, this is really a fictional narrative told with such vividness that it feels real. The answer to why it feels so real can possibly be found in the introduction to this edition.

Alice's adventures in Wonderland

and, Through the looking-glass and what Alice found there
2008
A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters.

Dracula

2008

Jane Eyre

2008

Madame Bovary

provincial manners
2008

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