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Teaching assistant James Dixon, burdened with a stuffy boss and an unwanted and unstable girlfriend, finds himself in a difficult position when he falls for Christine, a woman brought home for the weekend by his boss's son.

Emma Corrigan must discover whether she has set herself on the road to ruin or romance when she arrives at work to find the handsome stranger she has confessed all her secrets to during a dangerously turbulent flight is the elusive CEO of Panther Cola, her place of employment.

An anthology of critical essays that provide a wide range of information and opinions about the eighteenth-century novel "Pride and Prejudice, " and its author Jane Austen.

The story of Jude Fawley, an impoverished stonemason who aspires to the ministry and fails to fulfill the opposite expectations of the two women he loves in Victorian society.

A gentleman and a childless widow search nineteenth-century England for a mysterious young girl who disappears from a provincial girls' school after the headmistress learns that her tuition has not been paid and her name is a fake. Based on a twenty-page novel fragment left by Charlotte Bront? at her death.

Harriet Lovatt's life is torn apart when she gives birth to Ben, an insatiably hungry, abnormally strong, brutal child, who she cannot bear to leave in an institution, but whose presence in her home terrorizes her husband and other four children.

A social history of Regency England that profiles the era's politics, clothing, traditions, and courtesans.

Tells the story of how the publishing industry rose from virtual obscurity during the Victorian age to dominate English and world literature, and relates personal anecdotes about authors, editors, and publishers of the era and their attempts to make decent livings.

Follows the heroine's adventures from seventeenth-century England to the American colonies.

Focuses on the life and career of William Shakespeare in the context of his time and culture.