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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Category: Classics | Series: Transatlantic Classics
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Emma by Jane Austen
Category: Classics | Series: Transatlantic Classics
Emma's opening sentence, which describes the titular heroine's many advantages, is loaded with foreboding. Discomfort and vexation lie on the horizon, triggered by her penchant for matchmaking. Emma's latest scheme involves finding a suitable husband for ingenue Harriet Smith, and to that end she persua ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Category: Classics | Series: Transatlantic Classics
The Original Gothic-Horror Literary Classic! Mary Shelley's deceptively simple story of Victor Frankenstein and the creature he brings to life, first published in 1818, is now more widely read-and more widely discussed by scholars-than any other work of the Romantic period. From the creature's creation ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Category: Classics | Series: Transatlantic Classics
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Category: Classics | Series: Transatlantic Classics
Orphaned Jane Eyre refuses to be cowed by the harsh treatment meted out by her austere aunt and bullying cousins. Independent of spirit and thirsting for knowledge and adventure, Jane relishes being sent away to Lowood school, where the grim conditions are mitigated by the bonds of a doomed friendship. ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Category: Classics | Series: Transatlantic Classics
Christmas seems to offer few joys to the four daughters of the March household. With their army chaplain father away at the Civil War, times are hard for Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, and for Marmee, the self-sacrificing matriarch of the New England family. A letter from their absent father exhorts the girls t ...Show more
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Category: Classics | Series: Transatlantic Classics
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Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Category: Classics | Series: Transatlantic Classics
Northanger Abbey follows seventeen-year-old Gothic novel aficionado Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath, England. Catherine is in Bath for the first time. There she meets her friends such as Isabella Thorpe, and goes to balls. Catherine finds herself pursued by Isa ...Show more
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Category: Classics | Series: Transatlantic Classics
Dickens's second novel is a scalding indictment of child labor and the English Poor Laws, centering on the travails of an innocent child Orphaned at birth and abandoned to the hardships of the workhouse, Oliver Twist lives a grueling life of poverty. Desperate to escape his heartless tormenters, he runs ...Show more
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Category: Classics | Series: Transatlantic Classics
Once so much to each other! Now nothing! Ann Elliot has only one regret: that she listened to her family and broke off her engagement to Captain Wentworth. He was poor, but they were in love--and she didn't realize that love was enough. But Anne has a new chance: Captain Wentworth has returned from t ...Show more
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Category: Classics | Series: Transatlantic Classics
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