Starter: the great fire of london

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The importance of being earnest: and other plays

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The book club

The book club was her idea, of course. It was her way into our group. A chance to get close. I knew from the day she arrived that she couldn't be trusted. And I was right. Because Alice didn't come to the village for peace and quiet. She came for revenge." Having said goodbye to her old life in London, and the disastrous affair that sent her packing, twenty-something Lucy Shaw decides to move t…

Emma

Set in the fictitious village of Highbury, Jane Austen's Emma is the story of a clever, albeit spoilt, woman -- Emma Woodhouse, who lives with her father. Emma is not an instantly likeable girl; at first glance, she seems rather selfish and arrogant. The world around her, however, caters to her whims and fancies for the most part, except one Mr. Knightley, who is frank in his judgement and opin…

Persuasion

Jane Austen's final finished novel, Persuasion tells the story of two people -- Anne Elliot and Navy Captain Frederick Wentworth -- who were once bethrothed and in love but parted ways under unfortunate circumstances. Eight years later, their paths cross again -- but shrouded in feelings of regret and bitterness. Amidst endless distractions and hurdles, will Anne and Frederick find their way to…

Sandition and other tales

Sandition was written in the last months of Austen's life and was left unfinished at the same time of her death in 1817. Aet in a seaside town, it is an amusing tale of hypochondriacs, mixed with family drama and a whiff of romance. Written as a series of letters, Lady Susan, is the tale of a cunning coquette whose shenanigans display a lack of regards for anyone, even her own daughter. Another…

Sense and sensibility

Jane Austen's first published novel, Sense and Sensibility is the story of two sisters -- Elinore and Marianne. Each siste embodies a unique set of traits; Elinore is sense, dicrete and sound judgment; while Marianne is sensibility, emotional and impulsive. Through the lives and adventures of the two sisters in matters of love and relationships, Austen captures the need for both sense and sensi…

Northanger abbey

Published posthumously, Northanger Abbey is , in fast, Jane Austen's first novel. The shortest of her works, it is also the wittiest -- a light-hearted satire of Gothic novels, which were wuire rage at the time. There is the seventeen-years-old Catherine Morland, who loves such books and readily believes such mysterious and dark events to be afoot in her own world. There is John Thrope -- vain …

The merry adventure of robin hood

Recounts the legend of Robin Hood, who plundered the king's purse and poaches his deer and whose generosity endeared him to the poor.

Wuthering heights

Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its first publication in 1847. Of uncertain parentage and ethnicity, Heathcliff comes to Wuthering Heights as a child wh…