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Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories established G.K.Chesterton"s kindly cleric in the front rank of eccentric sleuths...

For more than 100 years "What Katy Did" has been one of the best-loved stories for children.Katy Carr is untidy, tall and gangling and lives with her brothers and sisters planning for the day when she will be beautiful and beloved, and amiable as an angel. An accidental fall from a swing...

"What Katy Did at School" and "What Katy Did Next" continue the story of the high-spirited and rebellious American girl, Katy Carr, and her family, who first appeared in "What Katy Did". "What Katy Did at School" is a compelling tale of the intrigues of life...

Begun when the author was only eighteen and conceived from a nightmare, `Frankenstein` is the deeply disturbing story of a monstrous creation which has terrified and chilled readers since its first publication in 1818. The novel has thus seared its way into the popular imagination while...

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War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon"s war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy"s view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters. Three of these, the artless and delightful...

Jules Verne`s third great "science fiction" novel describes the discovery and exploration of a secret tunnel which leads through a volcano to the centre of the Earth. The leader of the expedition is an archetypal comic and eccentric boffin, and together with his ward, his nephew Axel (who...

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Virginia Woolf"s Orlando, "the longest and most charming love letter in literature", playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf"s close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries of boisterous, fantastic adventure, the...

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Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in "Dubliners" show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony...

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Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame"s classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger, and the preposterous Mr. Toad (with his "Poop-poop-poop" road-hogging new motor car), have brought delight to many through the years with their...

"Tristram Shandy" took fiction into unknown realms, combining an entirely new concept in form with an idiosyncratic type of sentimental comedy. The publication of the first two of nine volumes brought the clergyman, Laurence Sterne, instant celebrity, but the novel"s exuberant...