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Lipstick Jungle

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Genre: Drama, Comedy, chick-lit, romance, contemporary.  Author: Candace Bushnell In this book, Victory Ford is the darling of the fashion world. Single, attractive, and iconoclastic, she has worked for years to create her own signature line. As Victory struggles to keep her company afloat, she learns crucial lessons about what she really wants in a relationship….

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Frankenstein

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Author: Mary Shelley Genre: Horror, Gothich Literature, Cientific Fiction, Romance. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque but sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18,…

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The Hunchback Of Notre-Dame

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Author: Victor Hugo Genre: Gothic Literature, Romantism, Fiction. ‘Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.’ Set in medieval Paris, against the backdrop of the brooding Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Hugo’s take on the classic story of Beauty and the Beast tells of the…

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The Three Musketeers

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Author: Alexandre Dumas Genre: Historical, Romance, Fiction. The Three Musketeers is a historical novel by Alexandre Dumas. Set in 1625–1628, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d’Artagnan (based on Charles de Batz-Castelmore d’Artagnan) after he leaves home to travel to Paris, to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although D’Artagnan is not…

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Don Quixote

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Author: Miguel de Cervantes Genre: Satire, Romance. Complete and unabridged, Don Quixote is the epic tale of the man from La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza. Their picaresque adventures in the world of seventeenth-century Spain form the basis of one of the great treasures of Western literature. Don Quixote, formerly fully titled The…

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Sense And Sensibility

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Genre: love romance. Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1811. It was published anonymously; By A Lady appears on the cover page where the author’s name might have been. It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, both of age to marry. The novel follows the young…

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Pride And Prejudice

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Genre: satire, romance, fiction. Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story charts the emotional development of the protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet, who learns the error of making hasty judgements and comes to appreciate the difference between the superficial and the essential. The comedy of the writing lies in…

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The Phantom of the Opera

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Genre: gothic literature, romance, horror, fiction. Under the Paris Opera House lives a disfigured musical genius who uses music to win the love of a beautiful opera singer. The Phantom of the Opera (French: Le Fantôme de l’Opéra) is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serialisation in Le…

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Arabian Nights

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Genre: romance, fantasy, drama, action, adventure. One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: كِتَاب أَلْف لَيْلَة وَلَيْلَة‎‎ kitāb ʾalf layla wa-layla) is a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English…

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Moby Dick

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Genre: fiction, romance adventure, epic, nautical fiction. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by American writer Herman Melville, published in 1851 during the period of the American Renaissance. Sailor Ishmael tells the story of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler the Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the white whale that…