Oldtown Folks


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Vanity Fair


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Kenilworth


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The Earl of Leicester wants to become the king consort of Elizabeth I, and thus his wife Amy suffers his neglect, before she is murdered--Novelist.




The Antiquary


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Silas Marner


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The story of a crabby old miser who raises an orphan with honest-to-goodness dimples and "auburn hair" with "little ringlets", George Eliot's Silas Marner (1861) starts off by laying on the tragedy. Young Silas is betrayed, exiled, isolated, and then robbed. A baby is born to an opium-addled mom and a deadbeat dad and then abandoned at the side of the road. But by the last page, everyone's living happily together in a quaint little cottage with a quaint little garden in a quaint little village full of quaint local characters.




Little Dorrit


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The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe


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This Companion provides fresh perspectives on the frequently read classic Uncle Tom's Cabin as well as on topics of perennial interest, such as Harriet Beecher Stowe's representation of race, her attitude to reform, and her relationship to the American novel. Cindy Weinstein comprehensively investigates Stowe's impact on the American literary tradition and the novel of social change.