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Jane Austen's, Pride and Prejudice has been hailed as one of the most popular romantic novels in English literature. From tangled love affairs and heart-breaking betrayals, Pride and Prejudice is the story of an unexpected love affair that leaves the entire town buzzing. Brimming with gossip and guile, see why the love story between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy has withstood the test of time. Mrs. Bennet's only hope in raising five daughters...

"Set in the Parisian underworld and plotted like a detective story, the work follows Jean Valjean, a victim of society who has been imprisoned for 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread. A hardened criminal upon his release, he eventually reforms, becoming a successful industrialist and mayor of a northern town. Despite this he is haunted by an impulsive, regretted former crime and is pursued relentlessly by the police inspector Javert. Valjean eventually...

In early nineteenth-century Yorkshire, the tumultuous relationship between a headstrong girl and a foundling boy raised in the same home wreaks havoc on them and those around them, even into the next generation.

Content with her life and not interested in marriage, Emma Woodhouse, a rich and beautiful heiress, causes complications with her matchmaking schemes.

Sometimes you find love in the most unexpected of places... This is not one of those times. Everyone expects Billie Bridgerton to marry one of the Rokesby brothers. The two families have been neighbors for centuries, and as a child the tomboyish Billie ran wild with Edward and Andrew. Either one would make a perfect husband... someday. Sometimes you fall in love with exactly the person you think you should... Or not. There is only one Rokesby...

"This perennial Dickensian favorite about a miser's startling change of heart is illustrated by Italian artist Roberto Innocenti and reissued for the readers of all the Christmases Yet To Come"--

Historical. Set in mid-17th century Boston, this tale of passion, puritanism and revenge is one of the foremost classics of American literature. Its heroine, Hester Prynne, is compelled by her own moral autonomy to wear the scarlet letter but she emerges as a woman with her integrity intact.

Este ebook presenta "David Copperfield ", con un sumario dinámico y detallado. David Copperfield es una novela escrita por Charles Dickens, publicada por entregas en 1849 y como volumen único en 1850. El huérfano David Copperfield, después de ser maltratado por su padrastro y por sus profesores, es obligado a trabajar, en condiciones infrahumanas, en un almacén de Londres. Sin embargo, su vida mejora considerablemente cuando éste decide escapar...

Northanger Abbey tells the story of Catherine Morland, a naive young woman whose perceptions of the world around her are greatly influenced by the romantic gothic novels to which she is addicted. When she moves to Bath she sees mystery and intrigue all around her. This is one of Austen's early works, a broad comedy about learning to distinguish between fiction and reality

In the quiet English hamlet of Wall, Tristran Thorn embarks on a remarkable journey through the world of Faerie to recover a fallen star for his lover, the hauntingly beautiful Victoria Forester.