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Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

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

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

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

Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey is a satirical novel that also dabbles in gothic romance, set against the backdrop of…

Gevoel en verstand

Jane Austen

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

Persuasion

Jane Austen

Persuasion is a late‑nineteenth‑century English novel that begins by sketching the narrow world of Sir Walter…

Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens

The novel opens amid a chaotic coach ride, where the heavy‑handed guard and the impatient coachman jostle a…

The Perpetual Curate

Mrs. Oliphant

The Perpetual Curate is a domestic drama set in a modest English parish, where the evening’s conversation in…

Addie's Husband; or, Through clouds to sunshine

Mrs. Gordon Smythies

The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius

Sarah Grand

The Beth Book is a nineteenth‑century social study presented as a work of fiction, focusing on the life of…

How It All Came Round

L. T. Meade

The novel opens in a richly appointed library where three characters, a middle‑aged father, his younger…

The Forsyte Saga - Complete

John Galsworthy

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Anne Brontë

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a domestic novel that foregrounds the social and moral landscape of…

The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property

John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy’s opening to The Man of Property frames the work as a sweeping family chronicle, a “Saga” of…

The Third Miss Symons

F. M. Mayor

The Third Miss Symons is a compact, nineteenth‑century social novel that turns its focus to the quiet, often…

Fragment of a novel written by Jane Austen, January-March 1817: Now first printed from the manuscript

Jane Austen

Armadale

Wilkie Collins

The Forsyte Saga, Volume II. Indian Summer of a Forsyte In Chancery

John Galsworthy

He Knew He Was Right

Anthony Trollope

"Ask Mamma"; or, The Richest Commoner In England

Robert Smith Surtees

After Dark

Wilkie Collins

Doctor Thorne

Anthony Trollope

The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. Awakening To Let

John Galsworthy

The Watsons: By Jane Austen, Concluded by L. Oulton

Austen, Jane; Oulton, L.

The Law and the Lady

Wilkie Collins