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David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist.

A new illustrated gift edition of a beloved classic. Three hundred years ago, a great deal of the world as we now know it was still undiscovered.

A sumptuous dramatization of Victor Hugo's novel produced in 1923 by Universal Studios at the then phenomenal cost of $1.

Presents Charles Dickens's classic novel set in London and Paris during the French Revolution and includes explanatory notes, an author chronology, a historical time line, a theme and plot outline, contemporary and modern critical analyses, discussion questions, and a list of related books and films.

A poor, unwanted orphan, Jane Eyre seems destined to live a sad and ordinary life.

Presents the complete text of Jane Austen's classic novel in which young, well-to-do, and bored Emma Woodhouse learns a thing or two about true class--and love--after an eventful turn as a matchmaker, and includes a comprehensive study guide with explanations and discussions of the plot, question and answer sections, a list of characters, and a short biography of Jane Austen.

Pip is a poor young orphan, living with his sister and her husband Joe, a blacksmith.

In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters; and includes a short essay comparing Austen's Elizabeth and Mr.

A young Gascon nobleman, d'Artagnan, sets off for Paris in hopes of joining the Musketeers.

In 1815 Edmond Dant?s, a young and successful merchant sailor who has just recently been granted the succession of his erstwhile captain Lecl?re, returns to Marseille to marry his Catalan fianc?e Merc?d?s.

"Harriet Beecher Stowe's timeless classic about slavery and redemption in the pre-Civil War South comes to life in this vivid and dramatic adaptation.

After escaping from the dark and dismal workhouse where he was born, Oliver finds himself on the mean streets of Victorian-era London and is unwittingly recruited into a scabrous gang of scheming urchins.

Wuthering Heights was Emily Bronte's only novel, published in 1847.

Presents Homer's epic in which Greek hero Odysseus makes his long and treacherous journey home from the Trojan War while his wife and son are forced to scheme to protect his throne; and includes an introduction, time line, outline of key themes, explanatory notes, critical analyses, and discussion questions.

Opening in the swirling mists of London, the novel revolves around a court case that has dragged on for decades?the infamous Jarndyce and Jarndyce lawsuit, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs.