Austen, Jane
Summary: "Sense and Sensibility (1811) marked the auspicious debut of a novelist identified only as 'A Lady.' Jane Austen's name has since become as familiar as Shakespeare's, and her tale of two sisters has lost none of its power to delight. Patricia Meyer Spacks guides readers to a deeper appreciation of the richness of Austen's delineation of her heroines, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, as they...
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Summary: Miss Fanny Price, the poor relation of a wealthy family, possesses only natural goodness to aid her against a witty and lovely rival as they compete for the man they both love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1995
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Summary: "Eve Brown is a certified hot mess. No matter how hard she strives to do right, her life always goes horribly wrong--so she's given up trying. But when her personal brand of chaos ruins an expensive wedding (someone had to liberate those poor doves), her parents draw the line. It's time for Eve to grow up and prove herself even though she's not entirely sure how. Jacob Wayne is in control....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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Summary: Ever since she met him, Caroline has intended to wed Mr. Darcy. Intelligent and well educated, Caroline is an ambitious rising star in fashionable society--some might say conniving--but in Regency England, what can she do to better her situation but marry well? Surely, Mr. Darcy is aware that Caroline will make the perfect wife and hostess at Pemberley, his grand estate. Now, all she need do is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2018
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Summary: Persuasion: "Anne Elliot is a young woman of perfect breeding and unwavering integrity. Austen wrote of her, 'She is almost too good for me.' Persuasion is the story of Anne and Captain Wentworth and their long awaited union. The world of country gentry in Regency England serves as a setting while portraying the many aspects of proper society - its failings and humor"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2008
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Summary: Since its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print." The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Easton Press 1977
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Summary: In Persuasion, her last novel, Jane Austen reveals her most mature dissection of people, place and social setting. Like the earlier works Persuasion is a tale of love and marriage, told with the irony, insight and just evaluation of human conduct which sets her novels apart. But the heroine - like the author - is more mature; the tone of the writing more sombre. Anne Elliot and Captain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1984
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Summary: Innocent Tess Durbeyfield's maidenhood is stolen by the dishonorable Alex d'Urberville and yet she is able to find true love with Angel Clare; their happiness is later shattered, for when her past is revealed, Clare rejects her love until it is too late ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1994
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Summary: Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life -- steady boyfriend, close family -- who has never been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, now wheelchair-bound after a motorcycle accident. Will has always lived a huge life -- big deals, extreme sports, world travel -- and he's pretty sure...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Anne Elliot passes up an opportunity for happiness when she declines a match in marriage in hopes of bettering her position. Beauty fades as seven years pass, when her former love returns a wealthier man. Anne finds herself slighted and all traces of their former intimacy gone. Mishaps and mischief mount as the pair tempt fate in this comic story of love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NAXOS AudioBooks 2007
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Summary: In 1914, a young woman named Mary Russell meets a retired beekeeper on the Sussex Downs. His name is Sherlock Holmes. And although he may have all the Victorian "flaws" listed above, the Great Detective is no fool, and can spot a fellow intellect even in a fifteen-year-old woman. So, at first informally, then consciously, he takes Mary as his apprentice. They work on a few small local cases,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books, . 1994
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Summary: "Manchester 1809. When budding young criminal Mary Jebb swindles Michael Croxton's brother with a blank pound note, he chases her into the night and sets in motion a train of sinister events. Condemned to seven years of transportation to Australia, Mary sends him a 'Penny Heart'-a token of her vow of revenge. Two years later, Michael marries naive young Grace Moore. Although initially overjoyed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2016
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Summary: Persuasion is the story of the love between upper-class Anne Elliott and Captain Wentworth, who must earn his fortune. Set against the rarefied sensibilities of upper class England of Austen's day, the love story is both a satire upon class values and differences, and an engaging novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2001
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Summary: Sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood set their sights on men to perfectly match their disparate personalities, with unexpected results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: A modern retelling of the Jane Austen classic follows the Dashwood sisters - Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret - as they, after the death of their father, must come to terms with the cruelties of life without the status of their country house, the protection of the family name, or the comfort of an inheritance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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Summary: A modern retelling of Jane Austen's classic novel finds bookish minister's daughter Cat Morland joining her well-to-do friends in Edinburgh and falling for an up-and-coming lawyer who may harbor unsettling secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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Summary: Social and romantic misunderstandings combine against the Bennet sisters in their pursuit of suitable romantic attachments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NAXOS AudioBooks 1996
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Summary: When Jasper Jupiter's Circus of Wonders pitches its tent in a poor coastal town, the life of one young girl changes forever. Sold to the ringmaster as a "leopard girl" because of the birthmarks that cover her body, Nell is utterly devastated. But as she grows close to the other performers, she finds herself enchanted by the glittering freedom of the circus, and by her own role as the Queen of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2002
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Summary: As Allied forces close in on Berlin in spring 1945, a solitary figure emerges from the wreckage that is Germany. It is Marian Sutro, whose existence was last known to her British controllers in autumn 1943 in Paris. One of a handful of surviving agents of the Special Operations Executive, she has withstood arrest, interrogation, incarceration, and the horrors of Ravensbrück concentration camp,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2015
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Summary: They call her 'Amber the Untouched' throughout the Disputed Lands - a chaste, golden-haired beauty who fears the remarkable love that was prophesied at her birth--and the death that must inevitably follow. Now Duncan has come to her in darkness, as was foretold - a wounded warrior with no memory, seared by passion's fire and irresistibly drawn to the innocent enchantress who divines truth with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2008
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Summary: "Emma is a rising star at the marketing firm she works at as a "creative," but would have trouble describing what exactly it is she does all day. She pours most of her actual creative energy into a popular blog that all of her friends agree is brilliant, but she has yet to make a cent on it. Clem is a massively talented screenwriter just back from New York, where she picked up a fancy graduate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt Paperbacks 2017
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Summary: Alternately enchanted and affronted by the haughty, opinionated Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth Bennet suspends her usual, more rational judgment concerning him, putting her chance for romance in jeopardy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble Books 1993