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Of Mice and Men
By John Steinbeck
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Streetwise George and his childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day they'll find a place of their own and live the American dream. But do dreams come at a price!
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Good Soldier
By Ford Ford
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Set before the First World War, this title tells the tale of two wealthy and sophisticated couples, one English, one American, as they travel, socialise, and take the waters in the spa towns of Europe.
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Great Gatsby
By F Scott Fitzgerald
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Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach. Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character.
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Doctor Jekyll and Mr.Hyde
By Robert Louis Stevenson
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Museum of Innocence
By Orhan Pamuk
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Set in Istanbul, this title tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul's richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a small boutique.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
By Harper Lee
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A novel that explores the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the thirties.
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Great Gatsby
By F Scott Fitzgerald
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Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach. Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character.
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Alice in Wonderland
By Lewis Carroll
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This edition contains "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and its sequel "Through the Looking Glass". In both, Alice meets a range of characters that are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom.
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Animal Farm
By George Orwell
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Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Wellington leads to the animals taking over the farm. Vowing to eliminate the terrible inequities of the farmyard. But as time passes, the ideals of the rebellion are corrupted, then forgotten.
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Wide Sargasso Sea
By Jean Rhys
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Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent sensuality and beauty. After their marriage the rumours begin, poisoning her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is driven towards madness.
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