Anne grows up and proves the promise of her youth by being a lovable, sunny young woman with an infinite capacity for enjoying “Patty’s Place” at college and life in general, especially when it brings her own love story.
Bathsheba Everdene, living in the quiet rural village of Weatherbury, is indeed disrupted by the ‘madding crowd’. After shunning the first man to love her, the shepherd Gabriel Oak, she is courted by two others: the lonely and repressed farmer Boldwood, and the charming but faithless Sergeant Troy.
Book Excerpt t. I was homesick, and Aunt could never bear to hear of those things. It was before your marriage, and all the kinder, for you were the queen of the night, yet had a word for poor little me.”Mrs. Snowdon was pale to the lips, and Maurice impatiently tapped the arm of his […]
A novel of romance and adventure, of love and valor, of mystery and hidden treasure. The hero is required to spend a whole year in the isolated house, which according to his grandfather’s will shall then become his. If the terms of the will be violated the house goes to a young woman whom the […]
Jerusha Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage where the children were wholly dependent on charity. At the age of 18, her education finished, she is at loose ends, and has begun to work in the dormitories of the orphanage when the asylum’s trustees make their monthly visit. An unidentified […]
Two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood (Elinor representing ”sense” and Marianne ”sensibility”), along with their mother and younger sister Margaret, are left impoverished after the death of their father, and the family is forced to move to a country cottage, offered to them by a generous relative.