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The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the remaining twenty-two in verse). The tales are contained inside a frame tale and told by a collection of pilgrims on a...

x Author:: Geoffrey Chaucer

x Date of first publication:: 1475

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Flambards

Flambards is a novel by the English author K. M. Peyton. The book and its three sequels are set just before, during, and after World War I. The first book, originally published in 1967, tells how the teenage heroine, orphaned heiress Christina...

x Author:: K. M. Peyton

x Date of first publication:: Sep 1967

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Gaudy Night

Gaudy Night (1935) is a mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the twelfth in her popular series about gentleman sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, and the third featuring crime writer Harriet Vane. The women of Harriet Vane's alma mater, Shrewsbury College (a...

x Author:: Dorothy L. Sayers

x Date of first publication:: 1935

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The History of Great Britain

The History of Great Britain is a history of the United Kingdom in six volumes written by David Hume begun in 1752 and published between 1754 and 1762.

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Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe is a novel by Sir Walter Scott. It was written in 1819 and set in 12th century England, an example of historical fiction. Ivanhoe is sometimes given credit for helping to popular interest in the Middle Ages in 19th century Europe and America...

x Author:: Walter Scott

x Date of first publication:: 1819

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Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is a romance novel by Jane Austen. First published on 28 January 1813, it was her second published novel. Its manuscript was initially written between 1796 and 1797 in Steventon, Hampshire, where Austen lived in the rectory....

x Author:: Jane Austen

x Date of first publication:: Jan 28, 1813

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Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility is a novel by the English novelist Jane Austen. Published in 1811, it was Austen's first published novel, which she wrote under the pseudonym "A Lady". The story revolves around Elinor and Marianne, two daughters of Mr....

x Author:: Jane Austen

x Date of first publication:: 1811

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles is a crime novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialized in the Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set mainly on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West...

x Author:: Arthur Conan Doyle

x Date of first publication:: 1901

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The Dartmoor Worker

The Dartmoor Worker is a collection, first assembled in 1966, of newspaper articles originally written for The Western Morning News by the principal authority on Dartmoor and its history, William Crossing, in the early 1900s. The book is illustrated...

x Author:: William Crossing

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Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published 1936, is a grimly comic novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is the protagonist's romantic ambition to give up money and status, and the dismal life that results. Orwell wrote...

x Author:: George Orwell

x Date of first publication:: 1936

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Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, though she had previously made a start on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. According to Cassandra Austen's Memorandum, Susan (as it was first...

x Author:: Jane Austen

x Date of first publication:: Dec 1817

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From Hell

From Hell is a comic book series by writer Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell speculating upon the identity and motives of Jack the Ripper. The title is taken from the first words of the "From Hell" letter, which some authorities believe was an...

x Author:: Alan Moore

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The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. The novel is...

x Author:: Kenneth Grahame

x Date of first publication:: 1908

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the first novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling and featuring Harry Potter, a young wizard. It describes how Harry discovers he is a wizard, makes close friends and a few enemies at the...

x Author:: J. K. Rowling

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Down and Out in Paris and London

Down and Out in Paris and London, published in 1933, is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell. It is a story in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities. The first part is a picaresque account of living on the...

x Author:: George Orwell

x Date of first publication:: Jan 9, 1933

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Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte. The name of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors on...

x Author:: Emily Brontë

x Date of first publication:: 1847

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Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre (pronounced /ˌdʒeɪn ˈɛər/) is a famous and influential novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published in London, England in 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. with the title Jane Eyre. An Autobiography under the pen name "Currer Bell"....

x Author:: Charlotte Brontë

x Date of first publication:: Oct 16, 1847

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Emma

Emma, by Jane Austen, is a comic novel about the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency...

x Author:: Jane Austen

x Date of first publication:: Dec 1815

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The Forsyte Saga

The Forsyte Saga is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by John Galsworthy. They chronicle the vicissitudes of the leading members of an upper-middle-class British family. Only a few generations removed from...

x Author:: John Galsworthy

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The Way of All Flesh

The Way of All Flesh (1903) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler which attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. It represents a relaxation from the religious...

x Author:: Samuel Butler

x Date of first publication:: 1903

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David Copperfield

David Copperfield or The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (which he never meant to publish on any account) is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a novel in...

x Author:: Charles Dickens

x Date of first publication:: 1850

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The Day of the Triffids

The Day of the Triffids is a post-apocalyptic novel written in 1951 by the English science fiction author John Wyndham. Although Wyndham had already published other novels, this was the first published under the John Wyndham pen-name. It established...

x Author:: John Wyndham

x Date of first publication:: Dec 1951

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Thinks ...

Thinks ... (2001) is a novel by British author David Lodge. The novel is exclusively set at the (entirely fictitious [cf. "Author's Note"]) University of Gloucester, based loosely on the University of York thanks to the author's brief residence...

x Author:: David Lodge

x Date of first publication:: 2001

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Murder Must Advertise

Murder Must Advertise is a Lord Peter Wimsey mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, published in 1933. Most of the action takes place in an advertising agency, a setting with which Sayers was very familiar. One of her advertising colleagues, Bobby...

x Author:: Dorothy L. Sayers

x Date of first publication:: 1933

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V for Vendetta

V for Vendetta is a ten-issue comic-book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd, set in a dystopian future United Kingdom imagined from the 1980s about the 1990s. A mysterious anarchist who calls himself "V" works to...

x Author:: Alan Moore

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Excellent Women

Excellent Women is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1952 and generally acclaimed as the funniest and most successful of her comedies of manners. The phrase, "excellent women", is used ironically as a condescending reference to the kind of...

x Author:: Barbara Pym

x Date of first publication:: 1952

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Coming Up for Air

Coming Up for Air is a novel by George Orwell, published before World War II. It is the most culturally English of his novels with alarums of war mingling with images of an idyllic Thames-side Edwardian childhood. The novel is pessimistic -...

x Author:: George Orwell

x Date of first publication:: 1939

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Sons and Lovers

Sons and Lovers is a 1913 novel by the English writer D. H. Lawrence. The third published novel of D. H. Lawrence, taken by many to be his earliest masterpiece, tells the story of Paul Morel, a young man and budding artist. Richard Aldington...

x Author:: D. H. Lawrence

x Date of first publication:: 1913

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Quartet in Autumn

Quartet in Autumn is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1977 and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was Pym's comeback novel after fifteen years of publishing rejections, following a successful record as a novelist during the 1950s and...

x Author:: Barbara Pym

x Date of first publication:: Sep 1, 1977

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Some Tame Gazelle

Some Tame Gazelle is Barbara Pym's début novel, first published in 1950. It is considered a remarkable first novel, because of the way in which the youthful Pym - who began the book while a student at Oxford before World War II - imagined herself...

x Author:: Barbara Pym

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A Room with a View

A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the...

x Author:: E. M. Forster

x Date of first publication:: 1908

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The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day (1989) is the third published novel by Japanese-British author Kazuo Ishiguro. The Remains of The Day is one of the most highly-regarded post-war British novels. It won the Booker Prize in 1989 for Best Fiction, and was later...

x Author:: Kazuo Ishiguro

x Date of first publication:: May 1989

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The Railway Children

The Railway Children is a children's book by Edith Nesbit, originally published in 1906. It has been adapted for the screen several times, of which the 1970 film version is the best known. The story concerns a family who move to a house near the...

x Author:: E. Nesbit

x Date of first publication:: 1906

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The Newcomes

The Newcomes is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1855. It is considered by many to be Thackeray's masterpiece, and one of the finest English novels ever written. Here is the story of Colonel Thomas Newcome, a virtuous and...

x Author:: William Makepeace Thackeray

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Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit is a serial novel by Charles Dickens published originally between 1855 and 1857. It is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. Much of Dickens' ire is focused upon the institutions of debtors'...

x Author:: Charles Dickens

x Date of first publication:: 1857

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Great Expectations

Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens first serialised in All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It is regarded as one of his greatest and most sophisticated novels, and is one of his most enduringly popular novels;...

x Author:: Charles Dickens

x Date of first publication:: 1860

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Where Angels Fear to Tread

Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) is a novel by E. M. Forster, originally entitled Monteriano. The title comes from a line in Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism: "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread". In 1991 it was made into a film by...

x Author:: E. M. Forster

x Date of first publication:: 1905

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Clouds of Witness

Clouds of Witness is a 1926 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the second in her series featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. It was adapted for television in 1972, as part of a series starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter. The film adaptation is more or less...

x Author:: Dorothy L. Sayers

x Date of first publication:: Jun 1926

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Unnatural Death

Unnatural Death is a 1927 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her third featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. It has also been published in the United States as The Dawson Pedigree. The plot concerns Lord Peter's investigation into the death, three years...

x Author:: Dorothy L. Sayers

x Date of first publication:: 1927

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The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club is a 1928 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her fourth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. A 90-year-old member of the Bellona men's club in London, General Fentiman, has apparently died there on Armistice Day, but no one...

x Author:: Dorothy L. Sayers

x Date of first publication:: 1928

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Strong Poison

Strong Poison is a 1931 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her fifth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. It is in Strong Poison that Lord Peter first meets Harriet Vane, an author of detective fiction. The immediate problem is that she is on trial for her life,...

x Author:: Dorothy L. Sayers

x Date of first publication:: 1931

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Five Red Herrings

Five Red Herrings is a 1931 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers. The first time it was published in the United States, its title was Suspicious Characters. The story is set in Galloway, a part of Scotland popular with artists because of its landscapes. Sandy...

x Author:: Dorothy L. Sayers

x Date of first publication:: 1931

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Have His Carcase

Have His Carcase is a 1932 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her seventh featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and her second novel in which Harriet Vane appears. Harriet Vane, author of crime and mystery novels, goes off on a hiking holiday. She finds a fresh...

x Author:: Dorothy L. Sayers

x Date of first publication:: 1932

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The Nine Tailors

The Nine Tailors is a 1934 mystery novel by British writer Dorothy L. Sayers, her ninth featuring sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. For this novel, Sayers had to learn about change ringing. In it, Lord Peter not only rings one of eight church bells in a...

x Author:: Dorothy L. Sayers

x Date of first publication:: 1934

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In the Teeth of the Evidence

In the Teeth of the Evidence is a collection of short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers first published by Victor Gollancz in 1939. (ISBN 0-380-01280-4). The book's title is taken from the first story in the collection.

x Author:: Dorothy L. Sayers

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Lord Peter

Lord Peter is a collection of short stories featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. First published in 1972 (ISBN 0-380-01694-X), it includes all the short stories about Lord Peter written by Dorothy L. Sayers, most of which were published elsewhere soon after...

x Author:: Dorothy L. Sayers

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Lord Peter Views the Body

Lord Peter Views the Body, first published in 1928, was the first collection of short stories about Lord Peter Wimsey by Dorothy L. Sayers. All of them were included in later complete collections, although some of these early works are generally...

x Author:: Dorothy L. Sayers

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the fifth instalment in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling. The novel features Harry Potter's struggles through his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, including the...

x Author:: J. K. Rowling

x Date of first publication:: Jun 21, 2003

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High Fidelity

High Fidelity is a 1995 British novel by Nick Hornby. It was adapted into a 2000 film directed by Stephen Frears and starring John Cusack. It also served as the basis for a 2006 Broadway musical of the same name. Rob Fleming is a London record store...

x Author:: Nick Hornby

x Date of first publication:: 1995

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The Red House Mystery

The Red House Mystery is a "Whodunit" mystery novel by A. A. Milne, published in 1922. It was Milne's only mystery novel; he is better known for his humour writing, children's stories, and poems. The setting is bachelor Mark Ablett's English country...

x Author:: A. A. Milne

x Date of first publication:: Apr 6, 1922

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Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress (commonly known as Oliver Twist) (1838) is Charles Dickens' second novel. It is about a boy named Oliver Twist, who escapes from a workhouse and meets a gang of pickpockets in London. The novel is one of...

x Author:: Charles Dickens

x Date of first publication:: 1839

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the second instalment in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling. The plot follows Harry's second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, during which a series of messages on the walls...

x Author:: J. K. Rowling

x Date of first publication:: Jul 2, 1998

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Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh novel, begun in 1869 and then put aside during the final illness of Thornton Lewes, the son of her companion...

x Author:: George Eliot

x Date of first publication:: 1874

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Barchester Towers

Barchester Towers, published in 1857, is the second novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire". It is possibly Trollope's best known work. Barchester Towers concerns the leading citizens of the imaginary cathedral...

x Author:: Anthony Trollope

x Date of first publication:: 1857

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The Pursuit of Love

The Pursuit of Love is a novel by Nancy Mitford, first published in 1945. It is the first in a trilogy about an upper-class family in the period between the wars. Although a comedy, the story has tragic overtones. The narrator is Fanny, whose mother...

x Author:: Nancy Mitford

x Date of first publication:: 1945

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Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial

Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk, is a work by Sir Thomas Browne, published in 1658 as the first part of a two-part work that concludes with The Garden of Cyrus. Its nominal subject was the...

x Author:: Thomas Browne

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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by the English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. First published on 28 February 1749, Tom Jones is among the earliest English prose works describable as a...

x Author:: Henry Fielding

x Date of first publication:: Feb 28, 1749

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Love in a Cold Climate

Love in a Cold Climate is a novel by Nancy Mitford, first published in 1949. The title is a direct quotation from George Orwell's novel "Keep The Aspidistra Flying" (1936). Like its predecessor, The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate is...

x Author:: Nancy Mitford

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Stardust

Stardust (1998) is the first solo prose novel by Neil Gaiman. It is usually published as a novel with illustrations by Charles Vess. Stardust has a different tone and style from most of Gaiman's prose fiction, being consciously written in the...

x Author:: Neil Gaiman

x Date of first publication:: Feb 1, 1999

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The Sword in the Stone

The Sword in the Stone is a novel by T. H. White, published in 1938, initially a stand-alone work but now the first part of a tetralogy The Once and Future King. Walt Disney Productions adapted the story to an animated film, and the BBC adapted it...

x Author:: T. H. White

x Date of first publication:: Jan 1, 1939

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