Describes London from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century, noting magnificence in both epochs. This title includes chapters on the history of silence and the history of...
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A biography of the city of London. It takes us on a journey - historical, geographical and imaginative - through the city of London. Illustrations (some col.), maps (some col.), ports. (some col.)...
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As fierce mobs run riot through the streets of London, the decent and sincere Geoffrey Haredale forges a strange alliance with the dishonest John Chester. Their aim is to prevent the marriage of Hared...
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Set at the time of the anti-Catholic riots of 1780, with the real Lord George Gordon, leader of the riots, appearing in the book. The characters are caught up in the resulting mob lawlessness, which c...
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A story of one man's journey to fight a school's brutal and tyrannical rule, and a lesson in the consequences for those who conspire to bring about his downfall....
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Orphaned at birth and abandoned to the hardships of the workhouse, Oliver Twist lives a gruelling life of poverty. Desperate to escape his heartless tormenters, he runs away to start a better life in ...
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Esther Summerson, an orphan placed in the care of the kind and gentle John Jarndyce at Bleak House, can only watch on as the people she loves are consumed by the proceedings. But when Esther's past co...
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Cast out by his stepfather to the brutal boarding school Salem House, young David Copperfield learns that he must fight for a better life. He escapes London and finds his way to Dover. Once there he h...
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