Suffered in vain: or, A plaything of fate

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

The novel opens with a detailed account of the Dashwood family’s long‑standing estate in Sussex, introducing…

The Mysteries of Udolpho

Ann Ward Radcliffe

The opening places the reader in 1584 on the banks of the Garonne, where the modest château of Monsieur St.

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

The novel is a social comedy of manners set in early‑nineteenth‑century England, where the lives of young…

Bleak House

Charles Dickens

Bleak House is a sprawling Victorian novel that begins amid a relentless rainstorm on the desolate estate of…

The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins’s opening places the reader in a bleak, windswept churchyard where a hidden narrator watches a…

Gevoel en verstand

Jane Austen

Dit werk is een Nederlandse vertaling van Jane Austens eerste roman, waarin de familie Dashwood centraal…