American Notes For General Circulation

Travel

Author: Charles Dickens

A fascinating account of nineteenth-century America sketched with Charles Dickens’s characteristic wit and charm,,When Charles Dickens set out for America in 1842 he was the most famous man of his day to travel there – curious about the revolutionary new civilization that had captured the English imagination. His frank and often humorous descriptions cover everything from h….Read More

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Martin Chuzzlewit

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The Purple Plain

During 1945 H. E. Bates spent some time in Burma and India with the aim of writing about the Burmese war for American readers. The experience inspired three ‘Asian novels’,… Continue Reading Posted in: Classics, Fiction, War

Under the Greenwood Tree

"Miss Fancy Day; as neat a little figure of fun as ever I see, and just husband-high.",One of the most popular of Hardy's novels, Under the Greenwood Tree is a… Continue Reading Posted in: Classics, Fiction, Literature

The Uncommercial Traveller

At the height of his career, around the time he was working on Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens wrote a series of sketches, mostly set in London,… Continue Reading Posted in: Classics, Fiction, Travel

Miss Happiness and Miss Flower

England is the last place Nona Fells wants to be. No one asked her if she wanted to leave sunny India to live in a chilly English village with her… Continue Reading Posted in: Children's, Cultural, Fiction

Nicholas Nickleby

I shall never regret doing as I have—never, if I starve or beg in consequence' When Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless after his father's death, he appeals to his wealthy… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction Classics, Literature & Fiction, Novel, Poor Families, Widows

Flambards in Summer

Widowed during the First World War at the age of 21, Christina returns to Flambards in the hope of picking up the threads of the life she knew before her… Continue Reading Posted in: Flambards (Imaginary Place), Manners And Customs, Young Adult Fiction

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A Sentimental Journey

A furiously witty response to Tobias Smollett's curmudgeonly 'Travels through France and Italy', Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy became a hugely influential work of travel writing… Continue Reading Posted in: Humorous Fiction, Psychological Fiction, Social Life And Customs

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

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Little Dorrit

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Great Expectations

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Selected Short Fiction

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