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A chance meeting in childhood makes an unforgettable impression in Willa Cather's 1918 novel My Antonia. Young Jim Burden is orphaned and comes to live with his grandparents in Nebraska. Farm life bri ...
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The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay, Volume 1
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Fanny Burney, one of the most important British novelists of the eighteenth century, led an extraordinary life. Not one to take “no” for an answer, Burney had willpower and spirit uncommon among w ...
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Young Carrie Meeber, a small town girl, is off to Chicago to seek her fortune. She arrives at her sister's home determined to make a living right away. She begins toiling away in the harsh and dismal ...
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The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
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Moll Flanders, the heroine of the 1722 novel by Daniel Defoe that bears her name, enters the world as the daughter of a convict saved from execution only by her pregnancy. Moll's felonious birth-mothe ...
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A young governess is forced to rely on her wits as she navigates a stormy sea of experience. Agnes Gray's father puts the family fortunes into jeopardy when he makes an ill-advised investment. Agnes i ...
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Who would have thought that Louisa May Alcott, the beloved author of that classic tale of virtuous girlhood, Little Women, also wrote many thrilling tales of mystery and romantic intrigue? Behind a Ma ...
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1892 story The Yellow Wallpaper is the terrifying fictional account of a woman whose mental illness makes her a prisoner in her own home. The unnamed female narrator is a ...
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The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay, Volume 2
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Fanny Burney, one of the most important British novelists of the eighteenth century, led an extraordinary life. Not one to take “no” for an answer, Burney had willpower and spirit uncommon among w ...
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The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay, Volume 3
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Fanny Burney, one of the most important British novelists of the eighteenth century, led an extraordinary life. Not one to take “no” for an answer, Burney had willpower and spirit uncommon among w ...
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Moms today are in the know and on the go, and this Sampler offers the perfect way to find books to feed the hot mama inside of every mother or mother-to-be. Moms not only want to know the secrets of s ...
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One night in autumn a few men were gathered about a fire on the slope of a hill. They belonged to a small detachment of Confederate forces and were awaiting orders to march. Their gray uniforms were w ...
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When the war began, there stood on Cote Joyeuse an imposing mansion of red brick, shaped like the Pantheon. A grove of majestic live-oaks surrounded it. Thirty years later, only the thick walls were s ...
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"I wish my thighs were smaller." ... "If only I could lose ten pounds." ... A wake-up call for any woman who has engaged in the "if only" wishing game, Locker Room Diaries uses the ...
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In Iraq, the front line is everywhere...and everywhere in Iraq, women in the U.S. military fight. More than 155,000 of them have served in Iraq since 2003—4 times the number of women sent to Des ...
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In Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda, the titular heroine tries to negotiate the difficulties of the marriage market in high-society London. There are numerous traps and pitfalls in Belinda’s journey: the ...
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