 Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen, Chris Hammond, Joseph Jacobs
This special hardcover gift edition of Austen's delightful comedy of manners concerning a pair of marriage-minded sisters features a dust jacket and more than 60 charming drawings.
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 Sanditon and The Watsons: Austen's Unfinished Novels
by Jane Austen
Two tantalizing incomplete stories revisit Austen's customary milieu of courtship and venture into new territory, amid guests at a seaside resort. Both are worth reading for pleasure and study.
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by Jane Austen
Delicious comedy of manners concerning two sisters, who appear to have been deserted by the young men they had intended to marry. Humor, perception, incomparable prose.
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 Emma
by Jane Austen
In one of Austen's finest novels, a lively young heiress takes up matchmaking and creates comic confusion for a social-climbing parson, a chatterbox spinster, an enigmatic Romeo, and others in a 19th-century English village.
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by Jane Austen
One of the most universally loved and admired English novels, an effervescent tale of rural romance transformed by Jane Austen's art into a witty, shrewdly observed satire of English country life. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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 Lady Susan
by Jane Austen, R. W. Chapman
A beautiful, flirtatious widow seeks an advantageous second marriage for herself and pushes her long-suffering daughter into a dismal match. A magnificently crafted novel of Regency manners and mores, filled with wit and elegant expression.
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by Jane Austen
Dependent on the benevolence of her aristocratic relatives, young Fanny Price develops into the moral center of a family gone astray. An entertaining study of the interplay between manners, education, and ethics.
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 Persuasion
by Jane Austen
Thwarted romance between Anne Elliot (Austen's sweetest, most appealing heroine) and Captain Frederick Wentworth. Finely drawn characters, gentle satire, genteel life in the English countryside.
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by Jane Austen
Spirited comedy of manners begins when Catherine Morland meets and falls in love with a young clergyman and is invited to be a guest at Northanger Abbey, the family's country estate.
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 Pride and Prejudice Paper Dolls
by Brenda Sneathen Mattox
Bring Jane Austen's famous novel to life with 8 dolls and 48 period costumes for church, afternoon teas, weekend visits, neighborhood balls, and a wedding.
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by Elizabeth Gaskell
A sensitive and moving portrait of life and manners in an English country village during the 1830s, Cranford recounts the events and activities in the lives of a group of spinsters and widows.
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 North and South
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Richly textured novel of romance and class conflict explores English social, political, religious, and cultural life during the mid-Victorian era, particularly in terms of the differences between the agricultural South and industrial North.
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by Candace Ward
This delicious variety of outstanding stories ranges over two centuries, from Romanticism to Modernism, with tales by George Eliot, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, Rosa Mulholland, and others.
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 Agnes Grey
by Anne Bronte
Drawn from Brontë's own troubled life, this novel exposes the hardships of a governess's world and offers a rare opportunity to hear the voice of a 19th-century working woman.
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by Charlotte Brontė
Written in 1847, Jane Eyre tells the tale of an orphan girl's progress from the custody of cruel relatives to an oppressive boarding school and its culmination in a troubled career as a governess. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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 Sonnets from the Portuguese
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Famed series of 44 love poems written to the poet's husband, Robert Browning, plus a selection of poems dealing with religion, art, social problems, and political events. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.
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by George Eliot
The tale of Maggie Tulliver explores the conflicts of love and loyalty and the friction between desire and moral responsibility in an accurate, evocative depiction of English rural life.
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 Silas Marner
by George Eliot
Classic of English literature recounts the engrossing story of a lonely and embittered old man and the orphaned child who helps him find love and hope.
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by Rene Bull
This elegant hardcover edition presents a colorful selection of popular tales. Twenty full-color and nearly 100 black-and-white images from the original in a distinctive new page design makes this volume an immediate heirloom for confirmed bibliophiles.
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 The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling, Edward J. Detmold, Maurice Detmold
This grand hardcover facsimile of a rare 1908 edition portrays the stories' fantasy, magic, and myth in 16 full-color images, some in two-page spreads, reproduced from the original portfolios.
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by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Arthur Rackham
This magical hardcover edition is drawn from the mammoth collection first published in 1909 and illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Forty full-color plates, plus innumerable black-and-white spot elements, retain the best features of the original.
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 Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
by William Shakespeare, John Austen
In this hardcover reproduction of a rare 1922 edition, the drama of the melancholy Dane unfolds amid haunting black-and-white images in a style heavily influenced by the great Aubrey Beardsley. Tailpieces and other ornamental designs appear throughout the text.
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by Charles Dickens
The only Dickens collection available with a supernatural theme, this elegant hardcover volume gathers seven chilling Christmas tales: "A Christmas Carol," "The Chimes," "The Cricket on the Hearth," "The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain," and more. Over 60 illustrations.
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 The Cricket on the Hearth: and Other Christmas Stories
by Charles Dickens
Written with Dickens' familiar flair for characterization and the picturesque, these three stories offer delightful evocations of a Victorian Christmas. Includes title story plus "The Holly-Tree" and "The Haunted House."
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by Charles Dickens
This engrossing tale relates Ebenezer Scrooge's ghostly journeys through Christmases past, present, and future and his ultimate transformation from a harsh and grasping old miser to a charitable and compassionate human being.
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 A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens, Arthur Rackham
This illustrated edition of the Yuletide classic features 12 full-color plates plus 18 black-and-white drawings by the renowned Rackham. Simply put, Dickens' immortal tale has never looked better.
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| |  Great English Essays: From Bacon to Chesterton
by Bob Blaisdell
Essays spanning 4 centuries reflect the wit, wisdom, and common sense of a number of distinguished English writers. Includes works by Addison, Swift, Johnson, Goldsmith, Lamb, Woolf, Shaw, and others.
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