The Penguin English Library Edition of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte `The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself` Passionate, poetic and revol

Now a major film directed by Armando Iannucci, starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi and Ben WhishawDickens`s epic, exuberant novel is one of the greatest coming-of-age storie

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The Penguin English Library Edition of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens`Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death, - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!`Described by Dickens as `