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Middlemarch George Eliot … and there is George Eliot’s voice, guiding you through her story and possibly guiding you through [a] time in your life when you feel such a need for wisdom and comfort…	A Separate Peace John Knowles I think it is the best-written, best-designed and most moving novel I have read in many years.” Aubrey Menen	Emma Jane Austen “I’d like to write a play as perfect as Emma. And as rich as Mansfield Park.” SG	Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy “the greatest of all novels” SG
Middlemarch	A Separate Peace	Emma	Anna Karenina

Beware of Pity Stefan Zweig "the story is really very simple - it's about exactly what its title suggests, the dangers and disastrous consequences of pity." SG	Cranford Elizabeth Gaskell “It was 150 years or so before, and it all made complete sense, and it all humanly worked, and it was a revelation.” SG	The Rector's Daughter F.M. Mayor “The most exquisitely written, delicate, passionately felt and haunting book I have ever read.” Elizabeth Buchan	The Garden of the Finzi-Continis Giorgio Bassani “It's a tale of first love and of becoming a man. In the background, there is the social exclusion of the racial laws, the slide towards war and the impending holocaust.”
Beware of Pity	Cranford	The Rector's Daughter	The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

Catching Life by the Throat Josephine Hart An anthology of poems by WH Auden, TS Eliot, Philip Larkin, Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Rudyard Kipling, Sylvia Plath and W B Yeats, introduced by Josephine Hart	The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston Siegfried Sassoon "It's a tale of first love and of becoming a man. In the background, there is the social exclusion of the racial laws, the slide towards war and the impending holocaust."	Orwell Essays George Orwell "a man who is always fighting against something, but who fights in the open and is not frightened ... a man who is generously angry - in other words, a liberal, a free intelligence…”	Golden Treasury PALGRAVE The classic collection of English poetry, first published in 1861, featuring works from Spenser, Shakespeare, and Wordsworth, to Tennyson, Yeats, Eliot, and Betjeman.
Catching Life by the Throat	The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston	Orwell Essays	Golden Treasury

Great Expectations Charles Dickens "Only Dickens, only he could find such a terrible - such a terrible phrase. An orphan. On the authority of a tombstone…” SG from Just the Three of Us	The Country Formerly Known as GB Ian Jack “Almost all of these wonderful pieces were commissioned by newspapers and magazines. They would never have worked on the internet…”	The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald "A classic, perhaps the supreme American novel" John Carey, The Sunday Times	It’s a Book Lane Smith Playful and lighthearted, Lane Smith’s, It’s a Book is a delightful manifesto on behalf of print in the digital age.
Great Expectations	The Country Formerly Known as GB	The Great Gatsby	It’s a Book

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