Paul Dombey is head of a successful shipping company and desperately wants a son to pass the company on to. His first child is a daughter but his second is a son (his wife dies in childbirth) but, his joy is short-lived as his son is very poorly and dies aged 6. Dombey is heartbroken and pushes his daughter away.
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A passionate tale of the beautiful, headstrong farmer Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors; Gabriel Oak a young shepherd, William Boldwood a prosperous farmer, and army Sergeant Francis (Frank) Troy.
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A complex novel set in the period 1830 to 1855 in Missouri, United States. Attitudes to race and colour are all brought to a head when a local Judge is murdered. One of the first novels to use fingerprints to identify the killer.
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