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The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens

by Jenny Hartley

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Other books by Jenny Hartley

Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women by Jenny Hartley

Charles Dickens: An Introduction by Jenny Hartley

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Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women
by Jenny Hartley

Charles Dickens: An Introduction
by Jenny Hartley

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

Dracula
by Bram Stoker