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By Jane Austen. 1811
This witty satirical novel, the first of Jane Austen’s to be published, is a study in contrasts between two sisters.…
Their unfortunate love affairs evoke very different responses from Elinor, who has sense, and Marianne, who has sensibility. 1811.By Jane Austen. 2002
The entertaining novel has been popular since its original publication in 1813. The observation and characterization are more important than…
the plot, which deals with the five daughters of an English country family and their romantic affairs. 2002.By Robert Louis Stevenson, Janice Greene. 1999
While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her…
son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger. Adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's work, published in 1883. For junior and senior high readers. 1999.By Stephen Crane, Emily Hutchinson. 1999
Henry Fleming, an unsophisticated country boy, enthusiastic to serve his country, enlists with the Union forces at the beginning of…
the Civil War. At first, the shock of war causes him to retreat and his heroic vision of himself fades. In the next battle, however, his courage revives as he carries forward the regiment's colours in a crucial advance. Adaptation of the American classic by Stephen Crane, originally published in 1895. For junior and senior high readers. 1999.By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Emily Hutchinson. 1999
The monster created by Dr. Frankenstein was supposed to be man's benefactor but, scorned for his ugliness, he swears revenge…
on his creator and the human race. Adaptation of Mary Shelley's work, published in 1831. For junior and senior high readers. c1999.By Robert Louis Stevenson, Janice Greene. 1999
A kind and well-respected doctor can turn himself into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug he has created.…
Adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", first published in 1886. For junior and senior high readers. 1999.By Mark Twain, Joanne Suter. 1999
By Mark Twain, Joanne Suter. 1999
By Victor Hugo. 1996
By James Fenimore Cooper. 1994
A story of the French and Indian War at Fort William Henry in 1757. Around this historical event, Cooper built…
a fiction based on the adventures of Leatherstocking and his Indian friends. Sequel to "The Deerslayer". 1826.By Charlotte Brontë, Heather Glen. 1989
This first novel by the famous author of "Jane Eyre," is based on Bronte's experience as a young woman studying…
in Belgium, where she fell hopelessly in love with a married teacher. Many scholars acknowledge it as a study for her later novel, "Villette." 1989.By George Eliot. 1994
Maggie Tulliver, whose father owns a mill on the River Floss, and her brother Tom are united by a strong…
bond. But when Maggie is pursued by the son of the lawyer who ruined their father, Tom forbids their friendship. Later, Maggie falls in love with the fiancé of her cousin Lucy Deane. Repenting, her life is made desperately unhappy. 1860.By Charles Dickens. 1994
A mysterious benefactor provides Philip Pirrip, a young boy adopted by a blacksmith and his wife, with the chance to…
escape his poor upbringing. Aspiring to be a gentleman, and encouraged by the expectations of wealth, he abandons his friends and moves to London. 1861.By Oscar Wilde, Robert Mighall. 1890
"If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old...I would give…
my soul for that!" The wish uttered by Dorian Gray as he gazes on his portrait forms the basis of this story, of a gilded and spoilt hedonist who is willing to sell his soul for his beauty. 1890.By George Eliot, Andrew Sanders. 1980
Set in late 15th-century Italy, in the Renaissance Florence of Machiavelli and the Medicis, "Romola" reconstructs a turning point in…
the intellectual history of Europe by charting the career and martyrdom of the charismatic religious leader Savonarola. Originally published in 1863. 1980.By Walter Scott. 1975
Set in 1679 during the Scottish populist rebellion known as the Covenanter uprising, Henry Morton of Milnewood is compelled to…
take up arms against the royalists, who are led by Claverhouse, a true villain in Scottish history. A moderate Covenanter, Morton is one of the "people's heroes" who challenge King Charles II and change the course of Scottish history. 1816.By Washington Irving. 1994
Five tales by Washington Irving (1783-1859). In the title story, the good-natured but lazy Rip Van Winkle falls asleep for…
twenty years in the Catskills. In "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," schoolmaster Ichabod Crane encounters the Headless Horseman. Includes "The Spectre Bridegroom," "The Pride of the Village," and "Mountjoy." Origianlly published 1819. 1994. Rip Van Winkle -- Legend of Sleepy Hollow -- Spectre bridegroom -- Pride of the village -- Mountjoy.By Harriet Beecher Stowe. 1965
First published in 1852, abolitionist Stowe's depiction of the moral injustice of slavery and the evils of materialism. Tom saves…
little Eva's life, and years later she tries to help him gain his freedom. Eventually, Tom's protection of runaway Eliza costs him his life at the hands of the brutal ex-Yankee Simon Legree. 1965.By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Frank Glover Smith, Laurence Lerner. 1969
This story of Mr. Gibson's new marriage and its influence on the lives of those closest to him is underpinned…
by a sense of social change, and of the more basic realities of birth and death. First published in 1866. 1969.By Ernest Thompson Seton. 1898