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Lord of the Flies – Sir William Golding
Lord of the Flies – Sir William Golding – 1954 Reviewed by: Kelsey Date: 10 July 2004 I thought this was a great work of literature that did a fabulous job of depicting the sequence of events of this group of s...
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The Freelands – John Galsworthy
The Freelands – John Galsworthy – 1914 Reviewed by: Jason Tomes Date: 12 March 2005 The Freelands is one of the lesser known works of its author. Devotees of Galsworthy will nevertheless discover in it many o...
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A Room with a View- E.M. Forster
A Room with a View – E.M. Forster – 1908 Reviewed by: Chris Green E.M. Forster’s portrait of a young woman’s coming to terms with her love and her own intellect amid an oppressive Edwardian social atmos...
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A Passage to India- E.M. Forster
A Passage to India – E.M. Forster – 1924 Reviewed by: Vivek Kant Date: 10 November 2004 Forster represented the Indian & the English outlooks towards each other perfectly & at the same time he brings ...
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Tom Jones- Henry Fielding
Tom Jones – Henry Fielding – 1749 Reviewed by: Natasha Date: 18 September 2003 Tom Jones is all about misunderstanding. That is to say, a misunderstanding created deliberately by the author as the final, unde...
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The Mill on the Floss- George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot – 1860 About The Mill on the Floss from The Master by Colm Tóibín: “Oh, I don’t agree with either of you then,” Minny said, her face bright with excitement. ...
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Middlemarch – George Eliot
A mangificent novel, a grandiose fresco of provincial society in an age of change (the Industrial Revolution, the Reform Bill of 1832 which expanded the electoral franchise and redesigned electoral districts). The characters ar...
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Romola- George Eliot
Romola – George Eliot – 1863 Reviewed by: Lale Romola was going to be one of the best books I have read. I love historic fiction and I had enjoyed George Eliot’s other books. I knew that Eliot had spent years...
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The Alexandria Quartet (Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea) – Lawrence Durrell
The Alexandria Quartet (Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea) – Lawrence Durrell – 1957-1960 Reviewed by: Rob Date: 14 June 2002 This is the best most-timely read I have had in years. If you want to ...
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Bleak House- Charles Dickens
Bleak House – Charles Dickens – 1853 Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 20 September 2001 When I read the first book of Dickens I must have been seven or eight. I never was into children’s books and insisted ...
