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1) Emma
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English
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A novel of Regency England that centers upon a self-assured young lady who is determined to arrange her life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her romantic fancy.
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Few have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet in Austen’s beloved classic Pride and Prejudice. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined...
3) Little Women
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For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...
4) Bleak House
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English
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Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed. Bleak House defies a single description. It...
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Called "the first and greatest of English detective novels" by T.S.Eliot, The Moonstone is a masterpiece of suspense. A fabulous yellow diamond becomes the dangerous inheritance of Rachel Verinder. Outside her Yorkshire country house watch the Hindu priests who have waited for many years to reclaim their ancient talisman, looted from the holy city of Somnauth. When the Moonstone disappears the case looks simple, but in mid-Victorian England no one...
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"Sir Phillip knew that Eloise Bridgerton was a spinster, and so he'd proposed, figuring that she'd be homely and unassuming, and more than a little desperate for an offer of marriage. Except ... she wasn't. The beautiful woman on his doorstep was anything but quiet, and when she stopped talking long enough to close her mouth, all he wanted to do was kiss her ... and more. Did he think she was mad? Eloise Bridgerton couldn't marry a man she had never...
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William Morrow & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
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First edition.
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363, 20 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"In a novel perfect for fans of Hazel Gaynor's A Memory of Violets and upstairs-downstairs stories, Annabel Abbs, the award-winning author of The Joyce Girl, returns with the brilliant real-life story of Eliza Acton and her assistant as they revolutionized British cooking and cookbooks around the world. Before Mrs. Beeton and well before Julia Child, there was Eliza Acton, who changed the course of cookery writing forever. England, 1835. London is...
8) Jo's boys
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Recounts the further adventures, successes, and failures of the numerous young men of Plumfield school.
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English
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"Thou and thine, Hester Prynne, belong to me." With these chilling words a husband claims his wife after a two-year absence. But the child she clutches is not his, and Hester wears a scarlet "A" upon her breast, the sign of adultery visible to all. Under an assumed name, her husband begins his vindictive search for her lover, determined to expose what Hester is equally determined to protect. Defiant and proud, Hester witnesses the degradation of...
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Travelling matchmaker volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
1st ed.
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151 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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As Miss Pym travels to York to find a former employer she meets a young Frenchwoman and decides to help her find a husband. Many surprises await both women.
11) Perfecting Fiona
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Series
School for manners volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1989
Edition
1st ed.
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168 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Fiona, a beautiful and wealthy Scottish heiress is sent to the Tribble sisters to be prepared for the London society season, after the season's first ball the sister's realize why she left Scotland unmarried.
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School for manners volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1988
Edition
1st ed.
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167 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Spinster sisters agree to assist families in preparing marriageable daughters for introduction into London society only to discover their first client is spoiled, selfish, and has no wish to be married.
13) Adam Bede
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English
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Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival, in the local squire's son Arthur Donnithorne. Hetty is soon attracted by Arthur's seductive charm and they begin to meet in secret. The relationship is to have tragic consequences that reach far beyond the couple themselves, touching not just Adam Bede, but many others, not least, pious Methodist Preacher Dinah Morris. A tale of seduction, betrayal,...
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Travelling matchmaker volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
1st ed.
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151 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Hannah Pym works her matchmaking magic on a stagecoach journey to Dover.
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Series
Travelling matchmaker volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1990
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
151 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Miss Hannah Pym, after receiving a large legacy, fulfills her longing for adventure and becomes a matchmaker in Regency England. A passenger fleeing an unwanted marriage receives assistance and reconciliation from the "matchmaker".
16) The adventuress
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House for the season volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1987
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
161 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The servants at 67 Clarges Street join forces in a scheme to make their new tenants, The Goodenoughs, society's darlings, and help Emily Goodenough snare the man of her choice.
17) Animating Maria
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Series
School for manners volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1990
Edition
1st ed.
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169 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Amy and Effy Tribble's fifth season in the chaperone business brings them a dream client but discover the real challenge is her family.
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School for manners volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1989
Edition
1st ed.
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165 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Amy and Effy Tribble, professional chaperones, are hired to prepare a young women for a society marriage. She has been spurned by a man she loved and wants nothing to do with another match. However, she soon learns she may have made more trouble for herself than she can handle and turns to the Tribbles for assistance.
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Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st Harvest ed.
Physical Desc
901 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1870s London, a nineteen-year-old prostitute named Sugar longs to escape her prison, a brothel run by the cruel Mrs. Castaway, and one of her customers, perfume magnate William Rackham, may prove to be her ticket out.
20) Plain Jane
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Series
House for the season volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1986
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
171 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
Description
The notorious house at 67 Clarges Street is reputed to be haunted and thus difficult to rent. When Mrs. Hart and her two daughters rent the house, it is "Plain Jane" who makes the best catch of the season while solving the mystery.
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