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Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, devotes himself to reclaiming the affections of Daisy Buchanan, a young woman he met before acquiring his fortune, who has since married an extremely wealthy, but brutal man.

Presents portraits of some of the Titanic's most notable passengers, interweaving their personal narratives with an account of the disaster as it unfolds.

Captain Charles Ryder returns to the country estate of Brideshead. There he indulges in a sentimental journey that takes him back twenty years to his schoolmates at Oxford and to his seduction by the Marchmains.

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

Julietta, Annamaria, and Luciana, young seamstresses in Madame Fortier's dress shop in Boston in 1918, chase their dreams of love and happy endings.

Seventeen-year-old Amelia Warner, the daughter of an untenured professor who moves from boarding school to boarding school, is tired of being just inches away from a life of luxury, so when she meets Courtney Moore, an heiress badly in need of a friend, she throws herself into the role, and finds herself struggling to keep up the charade.

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.

Mrs. Forrester, the resident aristocrat in the fading railroad town of Sweet Water, Nebraska, is widely admired for her attention to the conventions of her position as the wife of an executive, but privately she chafes at the restrictions that bind her to her much-older husband and their way of life.

Presents Edith Wharton's early twentieth-century novel in which she portrays New York in the 1870s as a society in which money counts for less than manners and morals, and includes contextual materials, as well as critical commentary and analysis.