Clarissa: Preface, Hints of Prefaces, and Postscript

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

The novel is a domestic fiction set in England that follows the intertwined lives of the Bennet sisters as…

A Room with a View

E. M. Forster

The opening of A Room with a View places the reader amid a noisy dinner table in a Florentine pension, where…

Middlemarch

George Eliot

Middlemarch is a didactic work of fiction that weaves together the ordinary rhythms of English town and…

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Charlotte Brontë

The work is an autobiographical‑style novel that follows the early life of an orphaned girl in England,…

Cranford

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Cranford is a gentle, village‑scale portrait of English life, centred on a community of older women who…

History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Henry Fielding

The work is a comic, eighteenth‑century novel that treats the growth of a young man from foundling to adult…