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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter”
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Thomas Hardy’s “Tess of the D’Urbervilles”
https://www.mreavoice.org/k8xkjze4p Thomas Hardy, who always thought of himself first as a poet, was nevertheless the most important novelist of late Victorian England. Dickens had died in 1870. George Elliott, Hardy’s great precursor as a Victorian realist, had died in 1880, and it is Hardy whose novels shine brightest in the last two decades of Britain’s nineteenth… Continue reading Thomas Hardy’s “Tess of the D’Urbervilles”
Dashiell Hammett’s “The Maltese Falcon”
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Graham Greene’s “The End of the Affair”
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Robert Graves’ “I, Claudius”
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William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies”
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Jane Gardam’s “Old Filth”
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John Galsworthy’s “The Forsyte Saga”
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John Fowles’ “The Magus”
Buy Cheap Tramadol Overnight Delivery John Fowles was an acclaimed author whose novels, particularly the first three—The Collector (1963), The Magus (1965) and The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969)—have been widely admired international best-sellers. In 2008, The Times named Fowles as number 30 in its list of the top 50 greatest British writers since 1945. The French Lieutenant’s Woman was ranked number 31 on Time magazine’s list of the 100 greatest… Continue reading John Fowles’ “The Magus”