The Solitary House (185 page)
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Authors: Lynn Shepherd
Tags: #Fiction, #Historical, #Literary, #Mystery & Detective, #Traditional British
SIDDHARTHA
, Hermann Hesse, 0-553-20884-5
THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER
, Homer, 0-553-21399-7
THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
, Victor Hugo, 0-553-21370-9
FOUR GREAT PLAYS: A DOLL’S HOUSE, GHOSTS, AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
, and
THE WILD DUCK
, Henrik Ibsen, 0-553-21280-X
THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY
, Henry James, 0-553-21127-7
THE TURN OF THE SCREW AND OTHER SHORT FICTION
, Henry James, 0-553-21059-9
A COUNTRY DOCTOR
, Sarah Orne Jewett, 0-553-21498-5
DUBLINERS
, James Joyce, 0-553-21380-6
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN
, James Joyce, 0-553-21404-7
THE METAMORPHOSIS
, Franz Kafka, 0-553-21369-5
THE STORY OF MY LIFE
, Helen Keller, 0-553-21387-3
CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS
, Rudyard Kipling, 0-553-21190-0
THE JUNGLE BOOK
, Rudyard Kipling, 0-553-21199-4
KIM
, Rudyard Kipling, 0-553-21332-6
LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER
, D. H. Lawrence, 0-553-21262-1
SONS AND LOVERS
, D. H. Lawrence, 0-553-21192-7
WOMEN IN LOVE
, D. H. Lawrence, 0-553-21454-3
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
, Gaston Leroux, 0-553-21376-8
BABBITT
, Sinclair Lewis, 0-553-21486-1
MAIN STREET
, Sinclair Lewis, 0-553-21451-9
THE CALL OF THE WILD
and
WHITE FANG
, Jack London, 0-553-21233-8
THE SEA WOLF
, Jack London, 0-553-21225-7
TO BUILD A FIRE AND OTHER STORIES
, Jack London, 0-553-21335-0
THE PRINCE
, Niccolò Machiavelli, 0-553-21278-8
DEATH IN VENICE AND OTHER STORIES
, Thomas Mann, 0-553-21333-4
THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 0-553-21406-3
OF HUMAN BONDAGE
, W. Somerset Maugham, 0-553-21392-X
THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFÉ AND OTHER STORIES
, Carson McCullers, 0-553-27254-3
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER
, Carson McCullers, 0-553-26963-1
THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING
, Carson McCullers, 0-553-25051-5
BILLY BUDD, SAILOR AND OTHER STORIES
, Herman Melville, 0-553-21274-5
MOBY-DICK
, Herman Melville, 0-553-21311-3
ON LIBERTY
and
UTILITARIANISM
, John Stuart Mill, 0-553-21414-4
THE ANNOTATED MILTON
, John Milton, 0-553-58110-4
THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, 0-553-21402-0
COMMON SENSE
, Thomas Paine, 0-553-21465-9
THE DIALOGUES OF PLATO
, Plato, 0-553-21371-7
THE TELL-TALE HEART AND OTHER WRITINGS
, Edgar Allan Poe, 0-553-21228-1
CYRANO DE BERGERAC
, Edmond Rostand, 0-553-21360-1
IVANHOE
, Sir Walter Scott, 0-553-21326-1
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE
(29 vols.), William Shakespeare
PYGMALION
and
MAJOR BARBARA
, George Bernard Shaw, 0-553-21408-X
FRANKENSTEIN
, Mary Shelley, 0-553-21247-8
THE JUNGLE
, Upton Sinclair, 0-553-21245-1
THE WEALTH OF NATIONS
, Adam Smith, 0-553-58597-5
ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH
, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 0-553-24777-8
THE COMPLETE PLAYS OF SOPHOCLES
, Sophocles, 0-553-21354-7
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
, Robert Louis Stevenson, 0-553-21277-X
KIDNAPPED
, Robert Louis Stevenson, 0-553-21260-5
TREASURE ISLAND
, Robert Louis Stevenson, 0-553-21249-4
DRACULA
, Bram Stoker, 0-553-21271-0
UNCLE TOM’S CABIN
, Harriet Beecher Stowe, 0-553-21218-4
GULLIVER’S TRAVELS AND OTHER WRITINGS
, Jonathan Swift, 0-553-21232-X
VANITY FAIR
, William Makepeace Thackeray, 0-553-21462-4
WALDEN AND OTHER WRITINGS
, Henry David Thoreau, 0-553-21246-X
DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA
, Alexis de Tocqueville, 0-553-21464-0
ANNA KARENINA
, Leo Tolstoy, 0-553-21346-6
THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH
, Leo Tolstoy, 0-553-21035-1
THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
, Mark Twain, 0-553-21079-3
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
, Mark Twain, 0-553-21128-5
THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF MARK TWAIN
, Mark Twain, 0-553-21195-1
A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT
, Mark Twain, 0-553-21143-9
LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI
, Mark Twain, 0-553-21349-0
THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER
, Mark Twain, 0-553-21256-7
PUDD’NHEAD WILSON
, Mark Twain, 0-553-21158-7
20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
, Jules Verne, 0-553-21252-4
AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS
, Jules Verne, 0-553-21356-3
FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON
, Jules Verne, 0-553-21420-9
THE AENEID OF VIRGIL
, Virgil, 0-553-21041-6
CANDIDE
, Voltaire, 0-553-21166-8
THE INVISIBLE MAN
, H. G. Wells, 0-553-21353-9
THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU
, H. G. Wells, 0-553-21432-2
THE TIME MACHINE
, H. G. Wells, 0-553-21351-2
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
, H. G. Wells, 0-553-21338-5
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
, Edith Wharton, 0-553-21450-0
THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY
, Edith Wharton, 0-553-21393-8
ETHAN FROME AND OTHER SHORT FICTION
, Edith Wharton, 0-553-21255-9
THE HOUSE OF MIRTH
, Edith Wharton, 0-553-21320-2
SUMMER
, Edith Wharton, 0-553-21422-5
LEAVES OF GRASS
, Walt Whitman, 0-553-21116-1
THE ACCIDENT
, Elie Wiesel, 0-553-58170-8
DAWN
, Elie Wiesel, 0-553-22536-7
NIGHT
, Elie Wiesel, 0-553-27253-5
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY AND OTHER WRITINGS
, Oscar Wilde, 0-553-21254-0
THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON
, Johann David Wyss, 0-553-21403-9
EARLY AFRICAN-AMERICAN CLASSICS
, 0-553-21379-2
FIFTY GREAT SHORT STORIES
, 0-553-27745-6
FIFTY GREAT AMERICAN SHORT STORIES
, 0-553-27294-2
SHORT SHORTS
, 0-553-27440-6
GREAT AMERICAN SHORT STORIES
, 0-440-33060-2
SHORT STORY MASTERPIECES
, 0-440-37864-8
THE VOICE THAT IS GREAT WITHIN US
, 0-553-26263-7
THE BLACK POETS
, 0-553-27563-1
THREE CENTURIES OF AMERICAN POETRY
(Trade), 0-553-37518-0, (Hardcover), 0-553-10250-8
CHARLES DICKENS was born in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. At the age of eleven, Dickens was taken out of school and sent to work in a London blacking warehouse, where his job was to paste labels on bottles for six shillings a week. His father, John Dickens, was a warmhearted but improvident man. When he was condemned to Marshalsea Prison for unpaid debts, he unwisely agreed that Charles should stay in lodgings and continue working while the rest of the family joined him in jail. This three-month separation caused Charles much pain; his experiences as a child alone in a huge city—cold, isolated, with barely enough to eat—haunted him for the rest of his life.
When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to school, after which he became an office boy, a freelance reporter, and finally an author. With
Pickwick Papers
(1836–37) he achieved immediate fame; in a few years he was easily the most popular and respected writer of his time. It has been estimated that one out of every ten persons in Victorian England was a Dickens reader.
Oliver Twist
(1837),
Nicholas Nickleby
(1838–39), and
The Old Curiosity Shop
(1840–41) were huge successes.
Martin Chuzzlewit
(1843–44) was less so, but Dickens followed it with his unforgettable
A Christmas Carol
(1843).
David Copperfield
(1850),
Bleak House
(1852–53),
Hard Times
(1854), and
Little Dorrit
(1855–57) reveal his deepening concern for the injustices of British society.
A Tale of Two Cities
(1859),
Great Expectations
(1860–61), and
Our Mutual Friend
(1864–65) complete his major works.
Dickens’s marriage to Catherine Hogarth produced ten children but ended in separation in 1858. In that year he began a series of exhausting public readings; his health gradually declined. After putting in a full day’s work at his home in Gads Hill, Kent, on June 8, 1870, Dickens suffered a stroke and died on the following day.
THE WOMAN IN WHITE
A Bantam Book
PUBLISHING HISTORY
The Woman in White
was first published in 1860
Bantam Classic edition / May 1985
Bantam reissue / March 2008
Published by
Bantam Dell
A Division of Random House, Inc.
New York, New York
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