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Shakespeare's Sonnets (version 4)

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William Shakespeare


Shakespeare's sequence of 154 sonnets deals with such themes as love, time, death, immortality, lust, and sex. The poems follow but also dep…

The Room in the Dragon Volant

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu


J. Sheridan LeFanu's Gothic mystery novel is narrated by Richard Beckett, a young Englishman abroad in Napoleonic-era France. He falls insta…

The Greater Inclination

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Edith Wharton


This is Edith Wharton's earliest published collection of short stories (1899). Like much of her later work, they touch on themes of marriag…

Maude

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Christina Rossetti


Maude is a novella by Christina Rossetti, written in 1850 but published posthumously in 1897. Considered by scholars to be semi-autobiograph…

Pamphilia to Amphilanthus

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Lady Mary Wroth


Pamphilia to Amphilanthus is the first sonnet sequence written by an Englishwoman. Published in 1621, the poems invert the usual format of s…

Emma (version 3)

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Jane Austen


Jane Austen famously described Emma Woodhouse, the title character of her 1815 novel, as "a heroine whom no-one but myself will much li…

The Children of Odin

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Pádraic Colum


Master storyteller Padraic Colum's rich, musical voice captures all the magic and majesty of the Norse sagas in his retellings of the advent…

Lady Audley's Secret

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


Mary Elizabeth Braddon's first novel, Lady Audley's Secret, was one of the most popular English novels of its day. Published serially in 186…

Northanger Abbey (version 2)

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Jane Austen


Northanger Abbey follows Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath, England. Seventeen year-old Catherine s…

Pride and Prejudice (version 4)

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Jane Austen


Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's classic comic romance, in which the five Bennett sisters try to find that most elusive creature: a sing…

Persuasion (version 2)

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Jane Austen


Eight years ago, Anne Elliot fell in love with a poor but ambitious young naval officer, Frederick Wentworth. The Elliots were dissatisfied …

The House of Mirth

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Edith Wharton


The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in ric…

Wives and Daughters (version 2)

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel was serialized in Cornhill Magazine from 1864 to 1866, and completed by her editor posthumously. It looks at …

A Room with a View (version 2)

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E. M. Forster


The 1908 novel A Room With a View is the story of Lucy Honeychurch, a young English girl traveling to Italy for the first time. While stayi…

Howards End

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E. M. Forster


The book is about three families in England at the beginning of the twentieth century. The three families represent different gradations of …

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

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Harriet Jacobs


Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to …

Cousin Phillis

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Cousin Phillis (1864) is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell about Paul Manning, a youth of seventeen who moves to the country and befriends his mo…

Carmilla

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu


Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu. First published in 1872, it tells the story of a young woman's susceptibility to th…

Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power

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Louisa May Alcott


Fans of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women will remember that her heroine Jo wrote racy novels before turning her hand to more "serious&q…

The Age of Innocence (version 2)

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Edith Wharton


Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with this 1920 novel about Old New York society. Newland Archer …

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