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The nun's priest's tale -- The pardoner's tale -- The wife of Bath's tale -- The franklin's tale.

After escaping from the dark and dismal workhouse where he was born, Oliver finds himself on the mean streets of Victorian-era London and is unwittingly recruited into a scabrous gang of scheming urchins.

Wuthering Heights was Emily Bronte's only novel, published in 1847.

Opening in the swirling mists of London, the novel revolves around a court case that has dragged on for decades?the infamous Jarndyce and Jarndyce lawsuit, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs.

The story of Catherine Morland, a well-to-do clergyman's daughter whose imagination runs away with her during a visit to the medieval home of the Tilney's, a family she met while vacationing at Bath.

A charming, young English woman is at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires when she finds herself attracted to someone socially unsuitable and is forced to choose between convention and passion.

In early nineteenth-century Yorkshire, the passionate attachment between a headstrong young girl and a foundling boy brought up by her father causes tragedy for them and many others, even in the next generation.

Anne Elliot, persuaded by family and friends that the charming and handsome Frederick Wentworth is not worthy of her regard, questions her decision to send him away until he returns seven years later, with his circumstances much improved.

A satirical look at Victorian manners recounting the experiences of two finishing school graduates, Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley.

Silas Marner is a grumpy weaver who is obsessed with making a lot of money.

The doings and foibles of the Pickwick Club, headed by Pickwick and his faithful manservant.

The lives of three people in a nineteenth-century provincial community become entwined as crusader Dorothea Brooke is prevented from being with the man she loves, the idealistic Dr.

Presents Thomas Hardy's novel about a young woman who attempts to restore her family's fortunes, is seduced by a heartless aristocrat, and is punished by society's double standards when she gets a chance at real love; and includes an introduction and explanatory notes.

"In a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a visiting sailor at a local fair.

Presents the unexpurgated text of the 1928 edition of "Lady Chatterley's Lover," in which Constance Chatterley, trapped in a loveless marriage, finds herself experiencing true love for the first time after meeting the new gamekeeper at her husband's estate.