Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Bedford/St. Martin's)
Charles Dickens, Hard Times (available in weekly installments from Stanford University's "Discovering Dickens" Project)
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (Bedford/St. Martin’s)
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (Penguin)
Joseph Gibaldi, ed., The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th edn. (MLA)

Note: It is vital that you obtain these editions of the novels—even if you already own copies of some of these works.