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Jane Eyre
Electric Book Company 1998; US$ 4.95Jane Eyre is a psychological romance about an orphan told in the first-person. The novel is a fictional account of events, people, and places closely resembling the author's own life, that takes place in northern England during the mid-1840s. Orphaned as a baby, Jane Eyre is cared for by an aunt. After ten years of abuse and neglect, Jane is... more...
The War of the Worlds
Electric Book Company 1999; US$ 3.95'No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man?s...' The War of the Worlds is the literary predecessor to invasion stories like 'Independence Day'. Set in fin de si裬e London, H.G. Wells? sci-fi classic tells the story of a Martian... more...
A Tale of Two Cities
Electric Book Company 1998; US$ 3.95Charles Dicken?s tale of sacrifice and bravery is set during the 1789 Revolution, when the sound of the guillotine rang regularly through the streets of Paris. A Tale of Two Cities explores the horrors and heroics of humanity in the grip of the terror with a subtle mixture of delicacy and intensity. more...
Adam Bede
Electric Book Company 1998; US$ 4.95The English Midlands at the turn of the eighteenth century is the setting for George Eliot's moving novel of three unworldly people trapped by unwise love. Adam Bede, a simple carpenter, loves too blindly; Hetty Sorrel, a coquettish beauty, loves too recklessly; and Arthur Donnithorn, a dashing squire loves too carelessly. Betrayed by their innocence,... more...
Barnaby Rudge
Electric Book Company 2000; US$ 4.95Dickens' Barnaby Rudge is both an intensely private examination of the relationship between father and son and a grand tale of rebellion in the public arena. Set in the boiling agitation of 1780's London with a cast of truly Dickensian characters, Barnaby Rudge is Dickens' first historical novel, outlining the events of the Gordon Riots. more...
Beyond the City
Electric Book Company 1999; US$ 4.95Destiny brings three peculiar households together in the placid English countryside. The desire for money and romance drive these Victorians beyond the natural boundaries of their middle class lives. As the web of lust and deceit draws these accidental neighbors ever closer, a financial scandal befalls one of them. An outside 'rank pirate' is linked... more...
The Black Arrow
Electric Book Company 1999; US$ 3.95A fierce war rages between two bitter rivals: on one side the House of Lancaster; on the other the House of York. The prize is the crown of England. Richard Shelton, a young Englishman seeking to avenge his father, becomes involved in the band of the Black Arrow and is drawn into the events of the War of the Roses. more...
Bleak House
Electric Book Company 1998; US$ 4.95Given their pedagogical nature, many Victorian novels and short stories were highly politicized; their narratives filtered through the value schemes, social views, and conscious purposes of their authors. In Bleak House, Charles Dickens manages a perfect synergy between comedy and angry satire, assaulting the Victorian British court system and... more...
Great Expectations
Electric Book Company 1998; US$ 4.95Great Expectations is the touchstone for all that we have come to associate with Dickens. From the orphaned narrator, Pip, to the gallery of fascinating and hauntingly grotesque characters, this gothic novel is at once a morality tale and an absorbing mystery. more...
Middlemarch
Electric Book Company 1998; US$ 4.95It is in Middlemarch that George Eliot?s genius as a writer and social reformer is best showcased. One of the greatest Victorian triple-deckers, Middlemarch is the story of the idealistic Dorothea Brooke, who, suffocated by the strictures of her late husband?s will, throws herself into a turbulent debate over medical reform. more...









