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Pride and Prejudice
A mother hunts for rich sons-in-law while her daughter enjoys hating the man she is destined to marry.
Jane Austen · novel
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Wuthering Heights
A foundling spends two generations dismantling two families to avenge a broken heart and a lost social standing.
Emily Brontë · novel
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Northanger Abbey
A girl gets invited to an old manor and promptly assumes everyone is a serial killer.
Jane Austen · novel
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A farewell to arms
An American ambulance officer falls for a nurse while the world falls apart.
Ernest Hemingway · novel
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Four runaways, a weaver with donkey ears, and the most chaotic gardening accident in history.
William Shakespeare · play
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Notre-Dame de Paris
An archdeacon, a bellringer, and a poet obsess over a dancer while the cathedral watches a city outgrow its walls.
Victor Hugo · novel
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A Doll's House : a play
A wife realizes her husband loves her position in his life more than her.
Henrik Ibsen · Play
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman
A village girl loses her innocence to a liar and her reputation to everyone else.
Thomas Hardy · novel
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The Taming of the Shrew
A father mandates his younger daughter stays single until her older sister finds a husband.
William Shakespeare · play
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Much Ado about Nothing
Two couples are tricked into love while a villain ruins a wedding with a lie.
William Shakespeare · Play
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Great Expectations
An orphan gets a fortune from a secret source, only to find his new status is a very expensive trap.
Charles Dickens · novel
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Sense and Sensibility
Two sisters navigate romance. One does it with logic, the other with a dramatic fainting spell.
Jane Austen · novel
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Little Dorrit
A girl born in a debtors' prison finds a fortune, while a man seeking the truth finds himself in her cell.
Charles Dickens · novel
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Anna Karenina
A marriage ends in scandal while a farmer finds meaning in his cabbage patch.
Leo graf Tolstoy · novel
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Manon Lescaut
He abandons his life for a woman who loves luxury more than poverty, and she knows it.
abbé Prévost · novel
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Eloisa
A tutor and his aristocratic student exchange high-minded letters until a violent father and a rational husband intervene.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · novel
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The Return of the Native
A Parisian diamond merchant returns to a bleak English wasteland, marries the wrong woman, and loses his eyesight to books.
Thomas Hardy · novel
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Middlemarch
An idealistic young woman marries a dry clergyman, and the town collectively wonders why she bothered.
George Eliot · novel
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Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
An orphan girl takes a job, meets a brooding man, and discovers a problem in the attic.
Charlotte Brontë · novel
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Cursed be the treasure
A boy grows up in a shadow of secrets, chasing a treasure that promises only ruin.
H. B. Drake · novel
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Set in Silver
Two people tour England by car, argue about honor, and slowly realize they are the only ones not lying.
C. N. Williamson · novel
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The mark of the monster
A man returns to a rotting village to save his partner from a basement-dwelling horror.
Jack Williamson · Short story
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Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy
A man tries to outrun his own marriage, but Ann Whitefield is a very persistent guardian.
Bernard Shaw · play