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Books about pared-down minimalist décor--most of them featuring the much-ridiculed all-white-box room with one lonely straight-backed chair in the center--are plentiful. Few people can actually li...

"One afternoon in late spring, Jane Whittaker went to the store for some milk and eggs and forgot who she was . . ." So begins the new thriller by Joy Fielding. Jane finds herself alone on the st...

Collected together in one volume, The Complete Novels show the development of Austen as a writer and social commentator. From the early optimism and youthful energy of Northanger Abbey to the quie...

Whether she's going to school or hanging out with her friends at the Coffee Bean, Mary Jane Watson is always the life of the party. But what no one knows is that this gorgeous redhead's exuberant ...

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'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.' With this famous declaration Jane Austen launches into the story of the five Be...

Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and ...

Every holiday season for ten years, Billy Romp, his wife, and their three young children have spent nearly a month living in a tiny camper and selling Christmas trees on Jane Street in New York Cit...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a nice Jewish widower must be in want of a wife. Eligible men may be scarce in Boca, but that doesn't stop Carol Newman from plotting to marry off wealth...

Three of the author's most popular works — widely admired for their satiric wit, subtlety and perfection of style — brilliantly recreate the provincial world of the early 19th-century E...

Charlotte Brontë's sweeping Victorian romance is reborn through the striking illustrations of the inimitable Dame Darcy A devoted readership will recognize Dame Darcy as the creator of highly ori...

Letters from Pemberley, Jane Dawkins's popular continuation of Pride and Prejudice, described Elizabeth Bennet's first year at Pemberley as the newly wed Mrs. Darcy. More Letters From Pemberley pi...

Supported by strong ratings and a rich history, The Real Deadwood provides background and historical accuracy for the figures depicted on the hit HBO series, and takes a broader look at the times t...

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What if you found a 200-year-old love letter written from a fictional character to the writer who created him? And what if, next to that letter, was another addressed to this character . . . from t...

Leading scholars present a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to Jane Austen's works in the contexts of her contemporary world, and of present-day critical discourse. Besides discussions of Austen'...

What would a latter-day Jane Austen say about love, death, andthe SATs? Anne Ehrlich is a dedicated guidance counselor steering her high school charges through the perils of college admission. Year...

"This is a novel in the guise of the  tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has  lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a  witness to the black militancy of the 1960's. In ...

Jane Austen famously labeled her literary ambit a "little bit (two inches wide) of ivory." Luckily, her personal travels and those of her family were slightly more extensive, otherwise we should be...

For every frustrated reader of the great nineteenth-century English novels of Austen, Trollope, Dickens, or the Brontës who has ever wondered whether a duke outranked an earl, when to yell "Tally...