Jane Austen
2) Emma
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Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others.
3) Persuasion
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Having once given up the man she loved because of family objections, Anne Elliot must come to terms with her feelings when years later they meet again.
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Mansfield Park is a study of three families--the Bertrams, the Crawfords, and the Prices--with the isolated figure of the heroine, Fanny Price, at its center. Fanny's quiet passivity, her steadfast loyalty and love for the son of the family who regard her as the poor relation, and who have taken her under their roof, are not appreciated until they are tried against the brilliant and witty Mary and Henry Crawford, the unfortunate consequences of whose...
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Everyman's library volume no. 25
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J.M. Dent
Pub. Date
1932
Physical Desc
xx, 211, 219 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
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Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
c2010
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292 p. ; 21 cm.
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In this hilarious retelling of Jane Austen's "Emma," Mr. Knightley is one of the most handsome and noble of the gentlemen village vampires. Blithely unaware of the secret society of vampires that surround her, Emma imagines she has a special gift for matchmaking. But when her dear friend Harriet Smith declares her love for Mr. Knightley, Emma realizes she's the one who wants to stay up all night with him. Fortunately, Mr. Knightley has been hiding...
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
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xxxii, 459 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
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Beautiful, clever, rich--and single--Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protegee, Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected.
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[2015]
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"The summer after university, Emma Woodhouse returns home to the village of Highbury, where she will live with her health-conscious father until she is ready to launch her interior-design business and strike out on her own. In the meantime, she will do what she does best: offer guidance to those less wise in the ways of the world than herself. Happily, this summer brings many new faces to Highbury and into the sphere of Emma's not always perfectly...
12) Prom & prejudice
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For Lizzie Bennet, a music scholarship student at Connecticut's exclusive, girls-only Longbourn Academy, the furor over prom is senseless, but even more puzzling is her attraction to the pompous Will Darcy, best friend of her roommate's boyfriend.
15) Longbourn
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 25 cm
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A novel whose principal characters are the servants in Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
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337 p. ; 24 cm.
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The best-selling author of The Thorn Birds presents a sequel to Pride and Prejudice that finds the willful third Bennet sister setting out in her late thirties in pursuit of adventure while her sisters worry about her at home.
17) Northanger Abbey
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Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
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343 pages ; 24 cm
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In this modern retelling of Austen's classic, bookish minister's daughter Cat Morland joins her well-to-do friends in Edinburgh and falls for an up-and-coming lawyer who may harbor unsettling secrets.
18) Mary B: a novel
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
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322 pages ; 25 cm
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The overlooked middle sister in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice c asts off her prim exterior and takes center stage in this fresh retelling of the classic novel. I will tell you the story of how I knew myself to be plain and therefore devoid of the one virtue which it behooves every woman to have. What is to be done with Mary Bennet? She possesses neither the beauty of her eldest sister, Jane, nor the high-spirited charm of second-born Lizzy. Even...
20) Emmett
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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264 pages ; 22 cm
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Seventeen-year-old self-absorbed Emmett navigates love and relationships in this queer retelling of Emma.