domestic fiction

Contains the complete text of "Pride and Prejudice," accompanied by over 2,300 annotations on facing pages, including explanations of historical context; citations from Jane Austen's life, letters, and other writings; definitions and clarifications; literary comments and analysis; maps and illustrations; and a chronology of events.

A fictional account of the relationship between famed pilot Charles Lindberg and his wife, Anne.

A spirited young woman in early nineteenth-century England must cope with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman, as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters. Includes background information, an outline of key themes and plot points, notes, and other study aids.

Ethan Frome, a poor farmer in nineteenth-century Starkfield, Massachusetts, sets off a devastating chain of events when he falls in love with the vivacious Mattie, cousin of his sickly, demanding wife. Includes background information, an outline of key themes and plot points, explanatory notes, and other study aids.

Raven, the daughter of a Flint, Michigan, drug dealer, marries Mizan against her father's wishes, and when her husband becomes physically violent, Raven questions whether she can ever leave him or if her only way out of the relationship is death.

After the death of their mother, thirteen-year-old Serenity Evans and her younger brother go to live with their grandparents, who try to keep them safe from bad influences and help them come to terms with what has happened to their family.

San Francisco ghostwriter Ruth Young finally begins to understand her Alzheimer's-afflicted mother LuLing's preoccupation with ghosts and curses when she reads LuLing's writings of her dark backwoods childhood in 1920s China-- where LuLing's mute, disfigured nursemaid committed suicide, and a nearby cave held what may have been the bones of the lost ancient hominid Peking Man.

Maurice Dupree is torn between his feelings for Omenita Jones and his mother's obsession for him to become the first African-American lawyer in his hometown.

Sapphire, having inherited the qualities of perseverance and strength from her mother, a woman forced into slavery in 1749, passes on those traits to successive generations of African-American women as they struggle to triumph over rape, humiliation, poverty, and scandal.

Jason, son of a prostitute and pimp, decides to take the same path as his father, but Chinaka, a former Black Panther and old friend of his mother, tries to set him straight.