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Sense and Sensibility (1811) by JaneAusten
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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.
Anna Karenina by LeoTolstoy
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"Anna Karenina" is the tragedy of married aristocrat and socialite Anna Karenina and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The story starts when she arrives in the midst of a family broken up by her brother's unbridled womanizing—something that prefigures her own later situation, though with less tolerance for her by others.
Romeo and Juliet by WilliamShakespeare
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Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers. Cover done by @zuko_42
Persuasion (1818) by JaneAusten
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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 Walter, Anne's fatuous, snobbish father and her equally self-involved older sister Elizabeth were dissatisfied with her choice, maintaining that he was no match for an Elliot of Kellynch Hall, the family estate. Her older friend and mentor, Lady Russell, acting in place of Anne's late mother, persuaded her to break the engagement. Now 27 and still unmarried, Anne re-encounters her former love when his sister and brother-in-law, the Crofts, take out a lease on Kellynch. Wentworth is now a captain and wealthy from maritime victories in the Napoleonic wars. However, he has not forgiven Anne for rejecting him. While publicly declaring that he is ready to marry any suitable young woman who catches his fancy, he privately resolves that he is ready to become attached to any appealing young woman except for Anne Elliot.
letters to no one ➳ [poetry] by bruisedmelodies
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❝i've delicately chosen letters to form words and words to form sentences, each sentence a colorful paint stroke on the canvas of my mind.❞ [ #1 in poetry on 27/08/16 ]
Boss-y Boyfriend by KindOfAwesome
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"Where do you think you're going?" I froze. "Turn around." I didn't move. "Turn . the . f*ck . around." Something in his voice told me, to stop messing around, to surrender. I de-freeze myself and turned around in a deliberately slow pace. His hard eyes bored into mine, looking frightening enough to shake me to my every core. "What-" He took a step towards me. "the f*ck-" Another step. "is going on?" I gulped nervously. This was it. _____ A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do, or in Neena Dev's case, A girl's gotta do what her family tells her to do. A meddling Indian family who is hell bent on getting Neena married at the age of 22, shattering her ambitious and aspiring plans. Neena wants nothing but to halt her hustling family to stop pressurizing her into tying the knot hastily and she's willing to do anything to stop it.... even lying. A twisted, complicated lie that includes a word 'Boss' and a 'Boyfriend' ... or maybe just Boss-y Boyfriend. #15 in Humor (23.06.16)