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Historical
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy is a deeply felt story of love, pride, loss, and difficult decisions. Set against a vivid social landscape, it follows people whose private hopes collide with duty, class, family, and...
Historical
Marriage
Marriage by Susan Ferrier brings together romance, society, family expectation, and personal choice in a full-length emotional novel. The story follows characters facing pressure from love, reputation, money, and duty, while...
Historical
The Hand of Ethelberta
The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy is a deeply felt story of love, pride, loss, and difficult decisions. Set against a vivid social landscape, it follows people whose private hopes collide with duty, class, family, and...
Historical
Lodore
Lodore by Mary Shelley brings together romance, society, family expectation, and personal choice in a full-length emotional novel. The story follows characters facing pressure from love, reputation, money, and duty, while...
Historical
Alas!
Alas! by Rhoda Broughton offers an emotional story of attraction, pride, misunderstanding, and the consequences of choosing with the heart. Its relationships unfold through social pressure and private longing, giving the...
Historical
Not Wisely, but Too Well
Not Wisely, but Too Well by Rhoda Broughton offers an emotional story of attraction, pride, misunderstanding, and the consequences of choosing with the heart. Its relationships unfold through social pressure and private...
Historical
Nancy
Nancy by Rhoda Broughton offers an emotional story of attraction, pride, misunderstanding, and the consequences of choosing with the heart. Its relationships unfold through social pressure and private longing, giving the...
Historical
The Woodlanders
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy is a deeply felt story of love, pride, loss, and difficult decisions. Set against a vivid social landscape, it follows people whose private hopes collide with duty, class, family, and fate....
Historical
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy is a deeply felt story of love, pride, loss, and difficult decisions. Set against a vivid social landscape, it follows people whose private hopes collide with duty, class, family, and...
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The Return of the Native
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy is a deeply felt story of love, pride, loss, and difficult decisions. Set against a vivid social landscape, it follows people whose private hopes collide with duty, class, family, and...
Historical
Cometh Up as a Flower
Cometh Up as a Flower by Rhoda Broughton offers an emotional story of attraction, pride, misunderstanding, and the consequences of choosing with the heart. Its relationships unfold through social pressure and private longing,...
Historical
A Pair of Blue Eyes
A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy is a deeply felt story of love, pride, loss, and difficult decisions. Set against a vivid social landscape, it follows people whose private hopes collide with duty, class, family, and fate....
Historical
The Inheritance
The Inheritance by Susan Ferrier brings together romance, society, family expectation, and personal choice in a full-length emotional novel. The story follows characters facing pressure from love, reputation, money, and duty,...
Historical
Far from the Madding Crowd
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy is a deeply felt story of love, pride, loss, and difficult decisions. Set against a vivid social landscape, it follows people whose private hopes collide with duty, class, family,...
Historical
Red as a Rose Is She
Red as a Rose Is She by Rhoda Broughton offers an emotional story of attraction, pride, misunderstanding, and the consequences of choosing with the heart. Its relationships unfold through social pressure and private longing,...
Historical
Jude the Obscure
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy is a deeply felt story of love, pride, loss, and difficult decisions. Set against a vivid social landscape, it follows people whose private hopes collide with duty, class, family, and fate....
Historical
Night and Day
It was a Sunday evening in October, and in common with many other young ladies of her class, Katharine Hilbery was pouring out tea. Perhaps a fifth part of her mind was thus occupied, and the remaining parts leapt over the...
Historical
Jacob's Room
"So of course," wrote Betty Flanders, pressing her heels rather deeper in the sand, "there was nothing for it but to leave." Slowly welling from the point of her gold nib, pale blue ink dissolved the full stop; for there her...
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Red Hair
Evangeline is beautiful, clever, and suddenly left with almost nothing after the fortune she expected slips away. With society watching and security uncertain, she decides to use charm, wit, and nerve to survive a world that...
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Elizabeth Visits America
ELIZABETH VISITS AMERICA BY ELINOR GLYN Author of "Three Weeks," "The Visits of Elizabeth," "The Reflections of Ambrosine," "The Vicissitudes of Evangeline," "Beyond the Rocks," "The damsel and the Sage" 1909 [Illustration...
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The Upas Tree
WHICH SHALL SPEAK FIRST? Ronald West stood at the window of his wife's sitting-room, looking across the bright garden-borders to the wide park beyond, and wondering how on earth he should open the subject of which his mind...
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The Man and the Moment
Michael Arranstoun folded a letter which he had been reading for the seventh time, with a vicious intentness, and then jumping up from the big leather chair in which he had been buried, he said aloud, "Damn!" When a young,...
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The Shadow of Victory
THE PROPHECY It was a long, low room, with a fireplace, roughly built of limestone, at one end of it. The blazing logs illuminated one corner and sent strange shadows into the others, while the winter wind moaned drearily...
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Sons and Lovers
THE EARLY MARRIED LIFE OF THE MORELS “The Bottoms” succeeded to “Hell Row”. Hell Row was a block of thatched, bulging cottages that stood by the brookside on Greenhill Lane. There lived the colliers who worked in the little...
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Thelma
"Dream by dream shot through her eyes, and each Outshone the last that lighted." SWINBURNE. Midnight,--without darkness, without stars! Midnight--and the unwearied sun stood, yet visible in the heavens, like a victorious king...
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The Obstacle Race
BETTER THAN LONDON A long, green wave ran up, gleaming like curved glass in the sunlight, and broke in a million sparkles against a shelf of shingle. Above the shingle rose the soft cliffs, clothed with scrubby grass and...
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The Following of the Star
THE STILL WATERS OF BRAMBLEDENE David Rivers closed his Bible suddenly, slipped it into the inner pocket of his coat, and, leaning back in his armchair, relaxed the tension at which he had been sitting while he mentally put...
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The Rainbow
HOW TOM BRANGWEN MARRIED A POLISH LADY I The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire. Two...
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The Visits of Elizabeth
Elizabeth enters country-house society with beauty, curiosity, and a gift for noticing everything adults would rather hide. Through visits, dinners, flirtations, and sharp private observations, she learns how desire, vanity,...
Historical
The Rocks of Valpré
THE KNIGHT OF THE MAGIC CAVE When Cinders began to dig a hole no power on earth, except brute force, could ever stop him till he sank exhausted. Not even the sight of a crab could divert his thoughts from this entrancing...