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Pride & Prejudice

Pride & Prejudice

Jane Austen

Love, class, and Regency society — annotated for today's reader.

52 articles
Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

Austen's debut novel — the Dashwood sisters navigate love, heartbreak, and Regency society in a masterful tale of sense versus sensibility.

1 article
Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft

Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft

The passionate letters of one of history's greatest feminist philosophers — to the man who broke her heart.

1 article
Manon Lescaut

Manon Lescaut

Abbé Prévost

The tragic tale of the Chevalier des Grieux and his passionate, destructive love for the beautiful and fickle Manon Lescaut — a classic of French literature that inspired operas by Puccini and Massenet.

1 article
Sir Richard Calmady

Sir Richard Calmady

Lucas Malet

A sweeping Victorian romance of love, deformity, and redemption — when a shocking accident leaves a young heir disabled, he must navigate a world that judges him by his appearance.

1 article
Four Arthurian Romances

Four Arthurian Romances

Chrétien de Troyes

Four timeless tales of chivalry and courtly love from the 12th-century poet who invented the Arthurian romance.

1 article
Henrietta Temple

Henrietta Temple

Benjamin Disraeli

A dashing heir falls hopelessly in love with the beautiful Henrietta Temple, entangled in a web of debt, duty, and broken engagements.

1 article
I Am a Woman

I Am a Woman

Ann Bannon

A groundbreaking lesbian pulp novel from 1959 — Laura Landon flees her past to start fresh in Greenwich Village, where she discovers a hidden world of love and longing.

1 article
The Blue Castle

The Blue Castle

L. M. Montgomery

A 29-year-old "old maid" transforms her life after a devastating diagnosis — Montgomery's finest novel for adults.

1 article
The Blue Lagoon

The Blue Lagoon

H. De Vere Stacpoole

A shipwreck, a deserted island, and two children who grow up alone discover love in its purest form.

1 article
Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

A fiercely independent governess refuses to compromise her principles — the novel that revolutionized English literature.

1 article
A Room with a View

A Room with a View

E. M. Forster

A sparkling comedy of manners about a young Englishwoman who must choose between convention and passion.

2 articles
A Room with a View (Annotated)

A Room with a View (Annotated)

E. M. Forster

Every chapter enriched with annotations, historical context, literary analysis, and discussion questions.

2 articles
Blow The Man Down

Blow The Man Down

Holman Day

Captain Boyd Mayo risks everything for forbidden love aboard a Wall Street tycoon's yacht off the coast of Maine.

1 article
The Enchanted April

The Enchanted April

Elizabeth Von Arnim

Four very different women escape rainy London for a wisteria-covered castle on the Italian Riviera — sun, gardens, and the sea work their magic as strangers become friends and marriages are reborn.

1 article
That Girl Montana

That Girl Montana

Marah Ellis Ryan

A fierce young woman fighting for her land in the Montana wilderness must choose between loyalty to her past and a future she never imagined.

1 article
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