upper class

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The great Gatsby

2009
The tragic story of the wealthy Jay Gatsby and his attempt to win back the love of Daisy Buchanan.

Friends forever

a novel
2012
Traces through many years the lives, challenges, and lasting friendship of three boys and two girls who met their first day in kindergarten.

Rules of civility

2011
Twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent, having met banker Tinker Grey while hanging out at a Greenwich Village jazz bar, finds her way into the upper echelons of New York society, and, as she makes new friends and waits for circumstances to bring Tinker back into her life, she begins to realize she regrets some of the choices she has made.

The diary of Ellen Rimbauer

my life at Rose Red
2001
University professor Joyce Reardon and her team of psychics set out to prove the existence of paranormal phenomena through their investigation of Rose Red, a mansion built on a Native American burial ground in the early twentieth century by oil tycoon John Rimbauer whose wife, Ellen, has left a detailed diary of ghostly and ghastly happenings in the house.

Beautiful disaster

a fast girls, hot boys novel
2006
The good times and risky choices of rich Miami Academy for the Performing Arts seniors Vanity, Max, Dante, Christina, and Pippa continue until one of them meets an early death.

The three Roosevelts

patrician leaders who transformed America
2002
A biography that combines the lives of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt offers a portrait of the controversial lives of three courageous American leaders who changed the course of twentieth-century history.

Tartuffe

a comedy in five acts
1997
A bilingual version of the seventeenth-century play which tells the story of Orgon, a wealthy, middle-aged bigot who is conned by Tartuffe into handing over his fortune and his daughter, offering the text in its original French with the English verse translation on facing pages.

The great Gatsby

2007
The tragic story of the wealthy Jay Gatsby and his attempt to win back the love of Daisy Buchanan.

Brideshead revisited

the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder : a novel
1973
Captain Charles Ryder returns to the country estate of Brideshead where he indulges in a sentimental journey that takes him back twenty years to his schoolmates at Oxford and to his memories of the Marchmains.

The age of innocence

1993
Newland Archer is newly married to May Welland, but is in love with Ellen Olenska, an old friend who has returned to town. He and Ellen pursue this love, even though it could cause scandal in their upper-class New York society.

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