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By Jane Austen. 1818
Anne Elliot has been persuaded to break off her engagement, but meets Wentworth again after some time, and the story…
is concerned with the gradual revival of his passion for her. 1818.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 Ernest Hemingway. 1952
An old Cuban fisherman hooks a giant marlin after eighty-five days without a catch. He then fights a losing battle…
with sharks that deprive him of his triumph. Recorded in textbook format. Winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. 1952.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 Thomas Hardy. 1895
Dramatizes the conflict between the carnal and the spiritual life of Jude Frawley, a stone mason's apprentice, who yearns to…
be a priest. A tale of doomed love and unfulfilled promise that revolves around Jude, his cousin Sue Bridehead and his academic mentor Phillotson. First published in 1895.By Charles Dickens. 1854
Hard Times was one of Dickens' later novels and portrays the author's somewhat cynical view of life as a dreary…
sort of underworld with artificially contrived happy endings that are not to be believed. Hard Times is sympathetic to the lot of the oppressed worker. Originally published in 1854.By John Steinbeck. 1995
A saga of two California families from the turn of the century through World War I. The Trasks, a mixture…
of gentleness and brutality, contrast with the Hamiltons, the author's own forebears, a well-adjusted, more tranquil family. 1995, c1952.By Charlotte Brontë. 1965
A plain and intelligent woman becomes the Governess at an estate and falls in love with the master. They plan…
to marry, but a long-kept secret is revealed that shatters all plans. A classic first published in 1847. 1965.By Jack London. 1906
A dog of mixed parentage - three parts wolf and one part dog - is taken from the wild and…
educated to the service of man. For junior and senior high and older readers. 1906.