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A Tale of Two Cities
Linked lives in London and Paris place private obligations inside revolutionary upheaval. Trace recurring images, delayed revelations and doubled character...
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Aesop’s Fables
Short animal stories invite readers to test claims about behaviour through memorable situations. Share one fable at a time, identify the problem before rea...
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Anne of Green Gables
Anne’s arrival at Green Gables unsettles expectations and gradually reshapes a household. Compare her imaginative naming of places with the practical tasks...
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Hard Times
A town organised around facts and production tests the limits of a narrow account of human needs. Read the schoolroom beside the factory and the circus, co...
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Les Misérables
Interwoven lives test the relationship between law, care and the possibility of change. Read selected sections with attention to narrative digressions and...
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Little Women
The March sisters develop different ambitions within shared family responsibilities. Compare their choices without treating one sister’s path as the only m...
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Northanger Abbey
Catherine Morland brings the expectations of Gothic fiction into unfamiliar social situations. Compare the pleasure of imagining dramatic explanations with...
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Oliver Twist
Oliver’s movement through institutions and households exposes how adults label and treat vulnerable children. Compare the narrator’s irony with Oliver’s li...
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Persuasion
Anne Elliot must reconsider a decision shaped by advice and social expectations. Attend to restrained conversations and small acts of attention, asking how...
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Sense and Sensibility
Two sisters respond differently to uncertainty in love and family security. Avoid reducing them to simple opposites: follow the moments when restraint conc...
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Silas Marner
Silas’s withdrawal from a community changes when an unexpected relationship gives everyday work a new purpose. Compare the value he places on money with th...
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Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Tess’s experience is shaped by economic vulnerability and unequal moral expectations. Attend to the narrator’s language, the changing rural settings and th...
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The Adventures of Pinocchio
A wooden puppet’s adventures connect tempting promises with unexpected consequences. This English translation contains dark and threatening episodes, so ad...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
These short cases turn overlooked details into possible explanations. Keep observation separate from deduction, and compare Watson’s account with Holmes’s...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
A family legend and a threatening landscape complicate an investigation. Compare reported supernatural explanations with observable details, then examine h...
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Invented identities and elaborate social rules make serious commitments look absurd. Attend to the precision of the dialogue and the reversals of familiar...
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Henchard’s attempt to remake his life remains entangled with an earlier decision. Trace how rivalry and concealed knowledge change his relationships, and c...
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The Mill on the Floss
Maggie and Tom grow within shared memories but unequal expectations. Read their conflicts through differences in education, obligation and temperament, the...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
A portrait separates outward beauty from the visible effects of conduct. Read provocative conversations against the consequences of Dorian’s choices, disti...
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The Railway Children
A family’s sudden move changes the children’s routines and understanding of the adult world. Follow acts of practical kindness around the railway, noticing...
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The Three Musketeers
D’Artagnan’s pursuit of a new life brings friendship into conflict with courtly intrigue and divided allegiance. Track who knows a secret at each point, an...
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The Time Machine
A traveller’s account of the distant future turns speculation into a test of social assumptions. Track how early interpretations change when more evidence...
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