Lady Susan Vernon, a beautiful and charming recent widow, visits her brother- and sister-in-law, Charles and Catherine Vernon, with little advance notice at Churchill, their country residence. Catherine is far from pleased, as Lady Susan had tried to prevent her marriage to Charles and her unwanted guest has been desc...
David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. The novel's full title is "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery". It was the first published as a serial in 1949-1950, and as a book in 1850. (COMPLETED).
Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is Charles Dickens's second novel, and was first published as a serial 1837-39. The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. (COMPLETED).
Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The story takes place in the fictional village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls, and Donwell Abbey and involves the relationships among individuals in those locations consisting of "3 or 4 famil...
More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. He was clever, confident, and ambitious, but poor and with no particular family connections to recommend him. Sir Wa...
Emma Woodhouse, aged 20 at the start of the novel, is a young, beautiful, witty, and privileged woman in Regency England. She lives on the fictional estate of Hartfield in Surrey in the village of Highbury with her elderly widowed father, a hypochondriac who is excessively concerned for the health and safety of his lo...
The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertf...
Kalte Winde gepaart mit steiniger und bracher Landschaft konnte man im alten Dänemark antreffen. Bjorn Eirikson war dort als erstgeborener Sohn König Eiriks auf die Welt gekommen. Gemeinsam mit seinem Vater zog er auf gefährliche Raubzüge übers Meer nach England, zurück blieb meist nur Tod und Leid. Bjorn war der einz...
**Wird überarbeitet und einige Änderungen vorgenommen** alle Kapitel mit einem ✔ sind überarbeitet "Was wollt Ihr von mir Lord Bradford? Ich heirate euch. Werde eure Frau, reicht euch das nicht Weshalb-Weshalb habt Ihr mich gewählt? Warum nicht Arami? Warum ich? Ihr hasst mich doch" schluchzte ich und versuchte mich a...