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The carefully controlled and chess-like movements of polite society often conceal passionate hearts, keen minds, and rebellious wills. High-spirited Elizabeth Bennet attempts to stay true to her ideal ...
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The four March sisters come of age against the backdrop of a nation forever changed by the Civil War. While their father serves in the conflict, the sisters—dutiful Meg, fiery Jo, gentle Beth, a ...
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Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence's sequel to The Rainbow, continues the tumultuous stories of sisters Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen. The sisters are definitively modern women, bolder and more intense in nat ...
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The wild and mysterious moors of Yorkshire are the setting for a passionate connection between childhood friends Catherine and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights. Though they grow up and marry other peop ...
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In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, an independent woman must decide if the heartaches that come with love and trust are too high a price to pay. Eyre, an intelligent but lonely young girl, is all alon ...
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Emma Woodhouse is the self-appointed matchmaker within her small circle of friends and acquaintances. Scheming and presumptuous, however, Emma's vision for who belongs with whom often runs at cross-pu ...
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When she least expects it, love is put to the test of time for lonely Anne Elliot. After the unhappy ending of a love affair, Anne has spent precious years in the shadows. Her lonely life is a cruel c ...
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Gustave Flaubert's 1856 novel, for all of its modern sense of honesty and power, could have been written yesterday. Here we have one of literature's tragic heroines—the beautiful Emma Bovary&mda ...
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The death of Henry Dashwood forces his daughters and their mother to give up their comfortable home and fashionable lifestyle. Stuck in a modest rural cottage, the eldest Dashwood sisters, Elinor and ...
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The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
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Moll Flanders, the heroine of the 1722 novel by Daniel Defoe that bears her name, enters the world as the daughter of a convict saved from execution only by her pregnancy. Moll's felonious birth-mothe ...
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Mansfield Park is a witty social comedy, weighing predictable propriety against the consequences of carelessness. Young Fanny Price, born to a large and struggling family, is taken to live at Mansfiel ...
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Lucy Snowe is seeking some much-needed stability and security when she takes a job as a teacher in the faraway city of Villette. What she does not realize is that she's in for a wild ride of mystery, ...
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Little Mary Lennox is orphaned and alone in India, where her parents had settled during British colonial rule of the country. Sent far away to live with her uncle in England, Mary is angry with the wo ...
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A young governess is forced to rely on her wits as she navigates a stormy sea of experience. Agnes Gray's father puts the family fortunes into jeopardy when he makes an ill-advised investment. Agnes i ...
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A vacation to the exotic location of Bath brings excitement and novelty to teenager Catherine Morland's life. Eager for a grand adventure to begin once she arrives, Catherine is delighted to receive t ...
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A chance meeting in childhood makes an unforgettable impression in Willa Cather's 1918 novel My Antonia. Young Jim Burden is orphaned and comes to live with his grandparents in Nebraska. Farm life bri ...
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Young Carrie Meeber, a small town girl, is off to Chicago to seek her fortune. She arrives at her sister's home determined to make a living right away. She begins toiling away in the harsh and dismal ...
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1892 story The Yellow Wallpaper is the terrifying fictional account of a woman whose mental illness makes her a prisoner in her own home. The unnamed female narrator is a ...
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