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This anthology presents four essential English novels for classroom study. Each text is prefaced and followed by a commentary from J. B. Priestley and supplemented with study questions by O. B. Davis. The collection includes Jane Austen’s *Pride and Prejudice*, Charles Dickens’s *Pickwick Papers*, Thomas Hardy’s *The Return of the Native*, and Joseph Conrad’s *The Secret Sharer*.
First publish date: 1960
Genre: Literary Fiction/Classic Literature
Authors: Jane Austen
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