Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England between 1792 and 1797, and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a meagre cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak.

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 loved ones. Emma's friend and only critic is the gentlemanly George Knightley, her neighbour from the adjacent estate of Donwell, and the brother of her elder sister Isabella's husband, John. As the novel opens, Emma has just attended the wedding of Miss Taylor, her best friend and former governess. Having introduced Miss Taylor to her future husband, Mr. Weston, Emma takes credit for their marriage, and decides that she rather likes matchmaking.

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry's world view. Espousing a new hedonism, Lord Henry suggests the only things worth pursuing in life are beauty and fulfilment of the senses.

The story is about an orphan, Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Naively unaware of their unlawful activities, Oliver is led to the lair of their elderly criminal trainer Fagin.

"Jane Eyre" follows the emotions and experiences of its eponymous character, including her growth to adulthood, and her love for Mr. Rochester, the byronic master of fictitious Thornfield Hall.

Orgulho e Preconceito é um romance da escritora britânica Jane Austen. Publicado pela primeira vez em 1813. A história mostra a maneira com que a personagem Elizabeth Bennet lida com os problemas relacionados à educação, cultura, moral e casamento na sociedade aristocrática do início do século XIX, na Inglaterra. Elizabeth é a segunda de 5 filhas de um proprietário rural na cidade fictícia de Meryton, em Hertfordshire, não muito longe de Londres.

O Monte dos Vendavais é uma das grandes obras-primas da literatura inglesa. Único romance escrito por Emily Brontë, é a narrativa poderosa e tragicamente bela da paixão de Heathcliff e Catherine Earnshaw, de um amor tempestuoso e quase demoníaco que acabará por afectar as vidas de todos aqueles que os rodeiam como uma maldição. Adoptado em criança pelo patriarca da família Earnshaw, o senhor do Monte dos Vendavais, Heathcliff é ostracizado por Hindley, o filho legítimo, e levado a acreditar que Catherine, a irmã dele, não corresponde à intensidade dos seus sentimentos. Abandona assim o Monte dos Vendavais para regressar anos mais tarde disposto a levar a cabo a mais tenebrosa vingança. Magistral na construção da trama narrativa, na singularidade e força das personagens, na grandeza poética da sua visão, nodoso e agreste como a raiz da urze que cobre as charnecas de Yorkshire, O Monte dos Vendavais reveste-se da intemporalidade inerente à grande literatura.