From an award-winning author, Fingersmith is an extraordinary, ingenious tale of fraud, insanity and secrets

Willa Cather’s best-loved novel, and the final book in the Great Plains trilogy, is a beautiful portrayal of friendship, longing and growing up in frontier Nebraska. When young orphan Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents in Nebraska, he finds himself growing up alongside Bohemian immigrant Ántonia Shimerda. Their childhoods are full of shared adventures but as they grow their paths diverge, spurred on by the dire poverty of the Shimerda family.

Yet Jim will never forget Ántoni...

His voice faded away and the Discovery dwindled into a speck on the horizon. Silence reigned as we rested on our oars. A bitter wind was blowing and there was not a sound except the clink of the ice and the uncanny scream of the wind as it whistled through the deserted rocks and lonely ice floes of James Bay. We were truly alone, cut off from everything we had known and were familiar with.

Henry Hudson's mutionous crew have let him adrift in a small open boat hundreds of miles from the neares...

Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is abildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel was first published in serial form in Dickens' weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman and Ha...

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