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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 …

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 …

Sense and Sensibility (version 3)

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Jane Austen


Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's first published novel, focuses on the lives and loves of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. The…

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…

The Turn of the Screw (version 2)

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Henry James


Henry James' classic ghost story comprises the written testimony of a young governess, charged with looking after two small children at an i…

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 …

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…

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…

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 …

Ethan Frome

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Edith Wharton


Edith Wharton's 1911 novel Ethan Frome tells the story of a tragic love triangle. Set in the highly symbolic wintry landscape of Starkfield,…

The Semi-Detached House

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Emily Eden


If you're a Jane Austen fan, you'll enjoy Emily Eden's comic novels of manners, The Semi-Detached House (1859) and The Semi-Attached Couple …

The Portrait of a Lady (version 2)

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Henry James


The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880–81 an…

The Awakening (version 2)

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Kate Chopin


Kate Chopin's 1899 novella The Awakening is about the personal, sexual, and artistic awakening of a young wife and mother, Edna Pontellier. …

The Letters of Jane Austen

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Jane Austen


This recording includes a selection of Jane Austen's letters, edited by Susan Coolidge and chosen from the collection of Austen's great-neph…

The Glimpses of the Moon

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Edith Wharton


"The Glimpses of the Moon" (1922) is about Nick and Susy Lansing, both of whom live a decadent life in Europe by sponging off weal…

What Maisie Knew

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Henry James


When Beale and Ida Farange are divorced, the court decrees that their only child, the very young Maisie, will shuttle back and forth between…

The House of the Vampire

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George Sylvester Viereck


The House of the Vampire is a 1907 novella that is a very unusual vampire story. A young writer comes under the powerful influence of a myst…

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