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Alternating passages relate the experiences of fifteen-year-old English model Lauren with those of her guardian Nessa and reveal what happened to Lauren's beautiful--but doomed--teenage mother.

An annotated edition of nineteenth-century author Anne Bronte's novel that was based on her experiences as a governess, in which she comments on the overwhelming responsibilities held by governesses and the corruption in bourgeois society; also includes an Anne Bronte chronology, a selected bibliography, and a scholarly introduction.

In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.

Presents the script for the stage adaptation of Henry James' nineteenth-century short story about a young governess who believes the two orphans under her care are being haunted by the ghosts of former servants whose unsavory relationship led to their deaths.

Jack Worthing creates a fictitious brother Earnest who lives in London to escape his dull country routine, but finds the lie backfiring when he falls in love.

Seventeen-year-old Sandra Francy is having way too much fun, and even though everyone wants her to calm down and be sensible, she refuses, until she is accidentally turned into a dog and finds that life as a canine has its own appeal.

The highly literate field mice of Tottensea Burrows are shocked when Pleasings Tatterstraw runs away with a charming French mouse, leaving her husband, Merchanty, to wallow in his own grief, but when Tottensea Burrows is threatened, Merchanty must put aside his grief to save his friends.

Mole, Ratty, Badger, and Otter hatch a plan to save the normally cheerful Toad from an impossibly rude houseguest whose determination to protect Toad from overindulgence casts a pall over Christmas celebrations in the Wild Wood.

Gives the history of some common foods and gives insights into how food reveals our habits, hopes, and prejudices.