The Picture Of Dorian Gray
In Victorian England, young aristocrat Dorian Gray meets Sir Harry Wotton and is introduced to London's society circuit and a decadent world of self-indulgience.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 62
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 920
subjects: conduct of life, supernatural, portraits, great britain, london (england), future life, soul, appearance (philosophy), personal appearance, didactic fiction, youthfulness, ross, tony, ill, dvds, horror, english literature, beauty, personal, england [X], wilde, oscar, didactic fiction, fables, gray, dorian (fictional character), paranormal fiction, aging, immortality, elderly, gothic fiction, gray, dorian
Pride And Prejudice
In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters; and includes a short essay comparing Austen's Elizabeth and Mr.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 124
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1090
subjects: young women, courtship, love stories, england [X], social classes, sisters, great britain, domestic fiction, prejudices, families, family, dating (social customs), gentry, love, upper class, books that were turned into a movie, large print books, family life, domestic fiction, love stories, bennet, elizabeth, darcy, fitzwilliam, romance fiction, romance fiction, bennet, elizabeth (fictitious character), darcy, fitzwilliam (fictitious character), bennet, elizabeth (fictional character), darcy, fitzwilliam (fictional character), electronic books, marriage, novels
Sense And Sensibility
A story of two sisters - Elinor, who has sense and Marianne who has sensibility.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 58
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1180
subjects: young women, sisters, love stories, england [X], great britain, inheritance and succession, social classes, man-woman relationships, man-woman relationship, austen, jane, fiction, english literature, mate selection, domestic fiction, audiobooks, gentry, dashwood, elinor, dashwood, marianne, courtship, domestic fiction, love stories, regency fiction, romance fiction, love, romance fiction
Hard Times
Mr. Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster in Cokestown, a northern English village beset by industrialism, runs his family and his school with a rigid adherence to facts, but his daughter's loveless marriage, his son's involvement with gambling and robbery, and his encounters with a variety of characters, force him to recognize the value of the human heart.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1060
subjects: social problems, political fiction, domestic fiction, england [X], social problems-fiction; utilitarianism-fiction; married people-fiction; england-fiction, political, domestic