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British Fiction - 20th Century
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Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks
Set before and during the great war, "Birdsong" captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. Powerful, evocative and utterly compelling, this is literature at its finest.
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Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
When the young Lord Sebastian Flyte is sick through Charles Ryder's window, a relationship develops which will change Charles's life forever. Chosen as one of Time Magazine's 100 greatest novels of all time, Waugh writes with a sympathy that sits alongside his razor-sharp dialogue and wit.
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Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons
Flora has been expensively educated to do everything but earn her own living. When she is orphaned at 20, she decides her only option is to go and live with her relatives, the Starkadders, at Cold Comfort Farm.
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Almayer's Folly
Joseph Conrad
Almayer marries Captain Lingard's adopted Malay child in the belief that he will inherit the fabled treasure for which Lingard is forever searching. But as the treasure fails to materialise, it is in his daughter, Nina that he sees his only salvation.
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The Arrow of Gold
Joseph Conrad
In the 1870s, as numerous groups struggle for the Spanish throne, a young sailor begins a series of dangerous missions, running guns to support the Carlists. When he meets the mysterious Dona Rita, he awakens to passion - both its desolation and hope.
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Chance
Joseph Conrad
Piecing together isolated and seemingly coincidental meetings, Charles Marlowe is able to tell the story of the high-finance swindler, de Barral and his innocent daughter, who seeks in marriage an escape from the shame of her father's disgrace.
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The Duel and Other Tales
Joseph Conrad
A master story-teller, Conrad published short stories throughout his lifetime - the finest are collected here, including 'Il Conde', 'The Informer' and 'Gaspar Ruiz'.
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Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim is a book about courage and cowardice, self-knowledge and personal growth, in the exotic setting of post-colonial Patusan, a remote Malay settlement.
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The Mirror of the Sea
Joseph Conrad
With a father who was exiled for his role in seeking an independent Poland, orphaned young, struggling to forge a career at sea in every corner of the globe and at last settling in England to become a writer in a language he had only begun to speak fluently in his 20s, Conrad's autobiography cannot help but make fascinating reading.
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Nostromo
Joseph Conrad
In the mining town of Sulaco, no-one is safe from the corrupting effect of silver – certainly not Senor Gould who hopes to bring stability by meddling in politics, and not even the 'incorruptible' patriot Nostromo in search of heroism.
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The Rescue
Joseph Conrad
The last of Conrad's trilogy featuring Captain Lingard, this novel charts Lingard's quixotic attempt to help a Malay prince recover his land, only to fall in love with a married woman whose yacht he saves. Conrad himself called it 'the swan song of Romance'.
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The Rover
Joseph Conrad
Set in Toulon against a background of the French Revolution, Napoleon's rise to power and Nelson's fleet in the Mediterranean, this is the story of the old sailor Peyrol and poor, mad Arlette unable to forget the slaughter of her parents.
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The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad
Bleak and darkly comic, the spies, terrorists, anarchists and agents provocateurs who inhabit the seedy underworld of the early 20th-century London makes a disturbing milieu in which Verloc's ultimate undoing becomes inevitable.
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Under Western Eyes
Joseph Conrad
When Razumov is approached by a little-known fellow-student who claims to have assassinated a politician his neatly ordered life is turned upside down. In an act of desperation, he informs. After one betrayal, others become irresistible.
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Victory
Joseph Conrad
Isolated on his island and wrecked in business, Axel Heyst hardly seems to care that he has inspired the enmity of the hotel-owner on the neighbouring island, until he meets Lena and is inspired to attempt her rescue.
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