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David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist.

Presents an adaptation of the classic novel in which Jane, a plain and penniless orphan in nineteenth-century England, accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall and falls in love with her melancholy employer, Mr.

A poor, unwanted orphan, Jane Eyre seems destined to live a sad and ordinary life.

The fiery Eustacia Vye, wishing only for passionate love, believes that her escape from Egdon lies in her marriage to Clym Yeobright, the returning "native," home from Paris and discontented with his work there.

Presents the complete text of Jane Austen's classic novel in which young, well-to-do, and bored Emma Woodhouse learns a thing or two about true class--and love--after an eventful turn as a matchmaker, and includes a comprehensive study guide with explanations and discussions of the plot, question and answer sections, a list of characters, and a short biography of Jane Austen.

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.

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.

Young Maggie Tulliver's loyalty to her beloved older brother, Tom, and to the rest of her family, is tragically tested when she falls in love with the son of her father's bitterest enemy.

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.