Widely a favorite of all Jane Austen's great and delightful novels, Persuasion is an emotionally moving story about having a second chance. Anne Elliot is a woman of quiet charm and deep feelings. When she was nineteen, she fell in love with - and was engaged to - the fearless and headstrong Captain Wentworth. But the young man had no fortune, and ( Read more... )

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AT THE THEATRE ROYAL IN DRURY LANE, COVENT GARDEN, THIS PRESENT DAY, BEING 1SI JANUARY, 1790,
Will be presented
The Diamond of Drury Lane
(Written by Miss Cat Royal)

PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS
MISS CAT ROYAL - orphan and ward of the theatre
MR. JOHNNY SMITH - ( Read more... )

We readers have many dirty little secrets - and our bestselling books are spilling them all. We can't resist conspiratorial crooks or the number 7. We have bought millions of books about cheese. And over a million of us read more than 50 nearly identical books every single year.

In Why We Read What We Read, Lisa Adams and John Heath take an ( Read more... )

Biting and bawdy, smart and smutty, lofty and low, Gargantua and Pantagruel is fantasy on the grandest of scales, told with an unquenchable thirst for all of human experience. Rabelais's vigorous examination of the life of his times - from bizarre battles to great drinking bouts, from satire on religion and education to matter-of-fact descriptions ( Read more... )

Four elegant, successful, sophisticated women in their forties have been called to New York to meet Lili, the world-famous movie actress.

Already a legend despite her youth, Lili is beautiful, passionate, notoriously temperamental... Each of the four has a reason to hate Lili. And each of them is astonished to see the others; for they are old ( Read more... )

Marianne Engel is a beautiful sculptress of gargoyles who appears in the burn unit one day and tells the narrator of this mesmerizing tale that they were lovers in medieval times, when she was a scribe and he was a mercenary. Is she simply mad? Or is she truly the angel of mercy who will save him from his suicidal despair?


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When a brute of a man tramples an innocent girl, apparently out of spite, two bystanders catch the fellow and force him to pay reparations to the girl''s family. The brute''s name is Edward Hyde. A respected lawyer, Utterson, hears this story and begins to unravel the seemingly manic behavior of his best friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and his connection ( Read more... )

The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden.


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When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact.

On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an ( Read more... )