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War and peace

1992
Presents part two of Tolstoy's epic novel about the lives of five aristocratic families in Moscow and St. Petersburg against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars of 1805-14.

The old curiosity shop

1995
Little Nell, a young girl in Victorian England, is uprooted from her secure and innocent childhood and cast into a world of evil when she and her grandfather are pursued relentlessly by the evil and loathsome dwarf Quilp.

Reflections on the revolution in France and other writings

2015
A republication of the 1790 text in which the British political thinker presents his arguments against the revolution in France. Includes a selection of pamphlets, speeches, public letters, private correspondence, and essays.

Middlemarch

a study of provincial life
1991
Provides a portrait of English provincial life in the nineteenth century, focusing on Dorothea Brooks and her two marriages, Dr. Lydgate, and the Vincy family.

Little Dorrit

1992
The story of a family and the system of debtors' prisons as symbols of the social and psychological imprisonment of 19th century England.

Demons

2000
Pyotr and Stavrogin, leaders of a Russian revolutionary cell, train terrorists to participate in a plot to overthrow the tsar, destroy society, and seize power, but when the group is threatened with exposure, the recruits must decide how far they are willing to go to save themselves.

A Christmas carol and other Christmas books

2009
A collection of five Christmas stories by the nineteenth-century English writer celebrating the spirit of Christmas.

Barnaby Rudge

a tale of the riots of 'eighty
2005
Presents a reprint of the Dickens' novel of a tale of thwarted love by the designs of Geoffrey Haredale and the villain Sir John Chester, and the heroism of Edward Chester in rescuing the innocent Emma.

The woman in white

1991
Tells the story of young drawing master Walter Hartright and the events that unfold after he encounters a mysterious apparition at one o'clock in the morning on a deserted London road.

The foundation trilogy

2010
Contains "Foundation" in which Hari Seldon and his band of psychobiologists form the Foundation, designed to be the nucleus of an eventual ideal universal ruling corporation; "Foundation and Empire" in which the Galactic Empire declines and a period of disruption ensues, followed by the emergence of the Foundation; and "Second Foundation" which finds the mutant mind power of the Mule, as well as survivors of the now destroyed Foundation, searching for the rumored Second Foundation at the end of the galaxy.

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