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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.

Presents Charles Dickens's classic novel set in London and Paris during the French Revolution and includes explanatory notes, an author chronology, a historical time line, a theme and plot outline, contemporary and modern critical analyses, discussion questions, and a list of related books and films.

Presents Upton Sinclair's classic novel, which depicts the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a young Lithuanian immigrant struggling in early-twentieth-century America, and includes a historical time line, a theme and plot outline, critical analyses, and other study tools.

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.

This is a classic novel first published in 1881 about dreams that do not come true.

A story of two sisters - Elinor, who has sense and Marianne who has sensibility.

National Theatre, direction Rapley Theatre Company, S.E. Cochran, manager, Max Gordon presents Pauline Lord in "Ethan Frome," a dramatization of Edith Wharton's novel, "Ethan Frome" by Owen Davis and Donald Davis, with Earle Larimore (suggested by a previous dramatization by Lowell Barrington), staged by Karl Nielsen.

At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park.

James Fenimore Cooper's classic novel, set on Lake Ontario during the French and Indian Wars and featuring Natty Bumppo and Mohican chief Chingachgook, who serve as scouts for the British; contains introduction, textual and explanatory notes, and chronology.

Middle-aged American Lambert Strether, sent to Paris by his patron Mrs.

Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky.

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.

Bored and lonely, the son of a millionaire is on an ocean voyage.

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