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Jane Austen
Jane Austen was an English novelist who lived in the Georgian era. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her use of biting irony, along with her realism, humour, and social commentary, have long earned her acclaim among critics, scholars, and popular audiences alike. -
Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility, novel by Jane Austen that was published anonymously in three volumes in 1811 and that became a classic. The satirical, comic work offers a vivid depiction of 19th-century middle-class life as it follows the romantic relationships of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. -
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Charles Dickens
He was an English writer and novelist, one of the most recognized of universal literature. He was a master of the narrative genre. In his works, the descriptions of people and places were both real how imaginary and he used humor and irony, while made social criticism.
His novels and short stories enjoyed great popularity during his life, for that he is still admired as an influential writer by writers around the world. -
Pride and Prejuidice
Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 romantic novel of manners written by Jane Austen. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book, who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and eventually comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness. A classic piece filled with comedy, its humour lies in its honest depiction of manners, education, marriage and money during the Regency British era. -
Mansfield Park
The novel tells the story of Fanny Price, starting when her overburdened family sends her at age ten to live in the household of her wealthy aunt and uncle and following her development into early adulthood. Austen's views about theatrical performance and the centrality or otherwise of ordination and religion, and on the question of slavery. Some of these problems have been highlighted in the several later adaptations of the story for stage and screen. -
The antique shop
The novel is about about the life of Nell Trent and his grandfather, who live in London in the Antique Shop. The grandfather suffers a nervous breakdown that leaves him totally alienated and without trial, and Nell escapes with him.
Finally, finally the grandfather when he learns that his grandson had died he waits for his return in his grave until he ends up dying a few weeks. -
A Tale of Two Cities
In this novel is narrated at the time of the French Revolution.
The story takes place in two countries: England and France, and in the cities of London and Paris. The first city symbolize peace and tranquility, while the second represent, challenge and chaos.
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The mistery of Edwin Droop
It was the last work what he do.
This is about the young orphan Edwin Droop married to another young orphan, later they separate and the child disappears.
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George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was an English writter and journalist who lived in Motihari. He was against British imperialism, in favor of democratic socialism and against Nazi and Stalinist absolutisms. Orwell is one of the most prominent English-language essayists of the thirties and forties of the twentieth century. He is know for two novels animal farm and 1984. -
La hija del clérigo
It tells of the hard life of the daughter of a clergyman, mistreated and condemned to be a maid. A sudden change will take her unexpectedly to London, where she will live a totally different life, exiled even from her memory. Portrait of the depressed England of the thirties, this novel is one of the essential works of English realism from the beginning of the 20th century. -
Rebelión en la granja
The story happens in a Manor´s Farm. This farm is to Jones and he has got a lot of animals. The pigs want to create a politic theory called Animalism. One day, all animals made a revolution and they case out Jones. Jones came back to the farm. He came with his friend but the animals expelled Jones. Napoleon was a pig and he said that the humans are very bad. Whit the passage of time, Napoleon said that he wanted make deal whit humans. Finally Napoleon took humans characteristic. -
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J. K. Rowling, Biography
Joanne Rowling was born on 31st July 1965 in Yate, close to Bristol (England)
She is better known as J. K. Rowling and she is an author, television and film producer, screenwriter and philantropist. She is also known as Robert Galbraith. With this name she writes crime fiction novels but those novels are not really famous compared to Harry Potter's saga. Harry Potter's films are inspired in the books and the complete franchise is one of the most popular in the history.
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
It is the first book of Harry Potter's saga.
It's about Harry, an orphaned, an appereantly normal guy who lives with his aunt, his uncle and his cousin, they are a very bad family and he hates them.
One day, thanks to Hagrid, an enormus man, discovers... That he is a wizard!
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Fantastic Beasts and where to find them
This books is really famous as well because it has inspired the film with the same name. This one is also about the magic world but it is set in the past, before Harry Potter's story happened. It is about Newt Scamander, a strange wizard who loves fantastic creatures.
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The Cuckoo's calling
Cormoran Strike is a disabled Afghan War veteran who works as a private investigator. He has serius problems to survive. John Bristow is his new client. He ask Carmoran Strike to investigate his sister´s death.
