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2. Waterland (novel) - Wikipedia

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   Waterland is a 1983 novel by Graham Swift published by William Heinemann. It is set in The Fens of eastern England. It won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. [1] In 1992, it was adapted into a film directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal, starring Jeremy Irons. [2]

3. Category:British novels - Wikipedia

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   Category: British novels. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... English novels (8 C, 494 P) Novels from Northern Ireland ...

4. English novel - Wikipedia

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   Historically, the English novel has generally been seen as beginning with Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) and Moll Flanders (1722), [1] though modern scholarship cites Aphra Behn's Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister (1684) John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) and Aphra Behn's Oroonoko (1688) as more likely contenders, while earlier works such as Sir Thomas Malory's ...

5. The Siege of Krishnapur - Wikipedia

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   The story is set in the town of Krishnapur, and tells of a besieged British garrison which holds out for four months against an army of native sepoys.Among the community are the District Collector, a father of small children, who is an extreme example of Victorian belief in progress, and can often be found daydreaming of the Great Exhibition; the Magistrate, a Chartist in his youth, but who ...

6. Cranford (novel) - Wikipedia

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   Cranford is an episodic novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell. It first appeared in instalments in the magazine Household Words, then was published with minor revisions as a book with the title Cranford in 1853. The work slowly became popular and from the start of the 20th century it saw a number of dramatic treatments for the stage, the ...

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8. House of Cards (novel) - Wikipedia

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   House of Cards is a political thriller novel by British author Michael Dobbs.Published in 1989, it tells the story of Francis Urquhart, a fictional Chief Whip of the Conservative Party, and his amoral and manipulative scheme to become leader of the governing party and, thus, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

9. Never Let Me Go (novel) - Wikipedia

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   Time magazine named it the best novel of 2005 and included the novel in its "100 Best English-language novels published since 1923—the beginning of TIME". [1] It also received an ALA Alex Award in 2006, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017. A film adaptation directed by Mark Romanek was released in 2010; a Japanese television drama aired ...