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Young Guy Chelsea courts Christobel Charteris, 10 years his senior, whom he has known since childhood as “auntie.” After she rejects him due to the age difference, he demands a “seven-day siege of Jericho” to win her over.
Oliver Twist (1837–1839) is the second novel by Charles Dickens and one of the most famous works of world literature. The novel is the first major social novel to openly confront the misery, poverty, and injustice of Victorian England.
The novel The Citadel by Scottish author Archibald Joseph Cronin, published in 1937, is one of the most influential works of the 20th century, having a powerful impact on perceptions of medical ethics and social justice.
A travelogue by British painter and travel writer Richard Wyndham from Sudan (Bahr el Ghazal Province). A vivid, humorous and introspective account of his encounter with African tribes, nature and colonial reality in the 1930s.
It is a collection that Robert Graves personally compiled and revised several times (first published by Penguin in 1957). It presents the author's own view of his poetic work, which spanned more than six decades.
The Lion and the Lamb by E. Phillips Oppenheim (1920s) is a spy and adventure novel that intertwines intrigue, diplomacy, and a love story between a powerful “lion” and a naive “lamb” in the European political milieu.