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Villette by Charlotte Brontë is a deeply psychological novel about loneliness, independence, love, identity, and the struggle to find one’s place in an unfamiliar world.The story follows Lucy Snowe, a reserved and intelligent young Englishwoman who leaves Britain and travels to the fictional continental city of Villette. There, she finds work as a teacher at a girls’ school and gradually becomes involved in a complicated network of friendships, rivalries, emotional attachments, and unspoken desires.Through Lucy’s intensely personal narration, Brontë explores isolation, jealousy, faith...

Miss Frances, the youngest Ward sister, "married, in the common phrase, to disoblige her family, and by fixing on a lieutenant of marines, without education, fortune, or connexions, did it very thoroughly. She could hardly have made a more untoward choice." Some years later, pregnant with her ninth child, Mrs. Price appeals to her family, namely to her eldest sister and her husband, Sir Thomas Bertram, for help with her over-large family. Sir Thomas provides assistance in helping his nephews into lines of work suitable to their education, and takes his eldest niece, Fanny Price, then ten years...

The Way It Came by Henry James is an atmospheric psychological ghost story about coincidence, jealousy, obsession, and the mysterious possibility of communication beyond death. First published in 1896, the story was later revised and retitled *The Friends of the Friends*.An unnamed narrator becomes fascinated by two of her friends—a man and a woman—who have each experienced a strangely similar supernatural event involving the appearance of a parent at the moment of death. Although both are intrigued by the coincidence and repeatedly express a desire to meet, circumstances continually ...

In the unsettled years of England's War of the Roses, where a man stood on the issue of kingship could make his fortune... or end his life. Dick Shelton, a nobly-born lad, is on the cusp of manhood, and he is thrust bodily into this stew where allegiances shift under one's feet. Circumstances cause him to fall in with a gentlemaiden in boy's disguise. Until he learns of the deception, Dick is unaware that the young lady is an heiress whom his guardian Sir Daniel had kidnapped. And the introduction of an outlaw with a penchant for putting black arrows into the bodies of the men who had wronged ...

By turns illuminating, infuriating, bewildering, and amusing, Nietzsche's masterwork covers a lot of ground. He rejects most strands of Western thought, especially on the subject of morality, and develops his own theme demanding that individuals embrace their own 'will to power' to give life intention and direction. First published in German in 1887, this translation was produced in 1907 by Helen Zimmern, a long-standing acquaintance of Nietzsche.There is an accessible text at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4363 but it leaves out all words in Greek, and is not in alignment with any printed ...

The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Little Nell, a beautiful and virtuous young girl who lives with her grandfather in his shop of curiosities. Her grandfather loves her dearly, and Nell does not complain, but she lives a lonely existence without friends of her own age. Her only friend is Kit, an honest young lad who works at the shop, and whom she is teaching to write. Unbeknownst to Nell, her grandfather is obsessed with their precarious financial position and is attempting to make Nell a good inheritance by winning at cards. He keeps these nocturnal activities a secret, but borrows ...

Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Roughing It is semi-autobiographical travel literature written by American humorist Mark Twain. It was authored during 1870–71 and published in 1872 as a sequel to his first book Innocents Abroad. This book tells of Twain's adventures prior to his pleasure cruise related in Innocents Abroad.

The White Alley by Carolyn Wells is a classic early twentieth-century mystery featuring the brilliant detective Fleming Stone. Published in 1915, it combines an apparently impossible crime, family tensions, romance, and methodical detective work.The story begins at White Birches, the imposing country estate of wealthy Justin Arnold, where a lively house party gathers shortly before his marriage to the much younger Dorothy Duncan. The estate is surrounded by high walls and protected by an elaborate burglar-alarm system, making unexplained events inside the property particularly puzzling.When ...

Faulkner's first book, containing two long poems. The Marble Faun is the first. The second poem in the book, The Green Bough, is not public domain yet. - Summary by Czandra

Bleak House by Charles Dickens is a sweeping Victorian novel that follows the lives of several characters connected to the seemingly endless legal case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce. At the center is Esther Summerson, a kind and modest young woman who becomes companion to Ada Clare and Richard Carstone under the guardianship of the generous John Jarndyce.As Richard becomes increasingly obsessed with the lawsuit and the inheritance it may bring, the case begins to consume his ambitions and relationships. At the same time, Esther gradually uncovers painful secrets about her own family and her ...