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1) Howards End
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A chance acquaintance brings together the prosperous bourgeois Wilcox family and the clever, cultured, and idealistic Schlegel sisters. As clear-eyed Margaret develops a friendship with Mrs. Wilcox, the impetuous Helen brings into their midst a young bank clerk named Leonard Bast, who lives at the edge of poverty and ruin. When Mrs. Wilcox dies, her family discovers that she wants to leave her country home, Howards End, to Margaret. Thus as Forster...
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Adopted into the household of her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, Fanny Price grows up a meek outsider among her cousins in the unaccustomed elegance of Mansfield Park. Soon after Sir Thomas absents himself on estate business in Antigua (the family's investment in slavery and sugar is considered in the Introduction in a new, post-colonial light), Mary Crawford and her brother Henry arrive at Mansfield, bringing with them London glamour, and the seductive...
4) Justice hall
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The two "Bedouin" guides from O Jerusalem are in England, caught in a mesh of honor and justice and the death of a young nephew.
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One of the greatest mystery thrillers ever written, Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White was a phenomenal bestseller in the 1860s, achieving even greater success than works by Dickens, Collins's friend and mentor. Full of surprise, intrigue, and suspense, this vastly entertaining novel continues to enthrall readers today. The story begins with an eerie midnight encounter between artist Walter Hartright and a ghostly woman dressed all in white who seems...
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Raised by her father in near isolation in the English countryside, Emilie Selden is trained as a brilliant natural philosopher and alchemist. In the spring of 1725, father and daughter embark upon their most daring alchemical experiment to date -- attempting to breathe life into dead matter. But when Emilie -- against her father's wishes -- experiences the passion of first love, she is banished to London, where she soon discovers she knows nothing...
8) Snobs
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2005.
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Preparing to marry heir Charles Broughton, attractive accountant's daughter Edith Lavery makes humorous and astute observations about contemporary England's class system.
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Beatrice Lacey, as strong-minded as she is beautiful, refuses to conform to the social customs of her time. Destined to lose her family name and beloved Wideacre estate once she is wed, Beatrice will use any means necessary to protect her ancestral heritage. Seduction, betrayal, even murder-Beatrice's passion is without apology or conscience. Yet even as Beatrice's scheming seems about to yield her dream, she is haunted by the one living person who...
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Presents two novels, including "A Christmas Journey" in which Lady Vespasia Cumming must investigate a mysterious death at an English country manor and "A Christmas Visitor" in which Henry Rathbone must work to uncover the killer at a Victorian estate.
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Saint Martin's
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c1997.
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English
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On returning to England from the Napoleonic Wars, Captain Jack Vespa moves into an inherited country mansion, rather than live in London. To his surprise he discovers the mansion is haunted and is already inhabited by a beautiful Italian woman. By the author of Lanterns.
12) Meridon: a novel
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Meridon, a vagabond gypsy, allows her vague memories of a very different life, as well as the necklace that is her birthright, to lead her home to Wideacre where she takes her place as its mistress.
13) Summer moonshine
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Overlook
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2003.
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English
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Summer Moonshine involves Sir Buckstone Abbott trying to sell what is probably the ugliest home in England, as well as a complicated love quadrangle.
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Aunt Dimity volume 8
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English
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When Lori Shepherds husband, Bill, is summoned to the reading of a will at the resplendent country estate of Earl Elstyn, Lori jumps at the chance to come along. She didnt expect, however, to find herself entangled in a messyand dangerousfamily dispute. The aristocratic earl has called together the entire Elstyn family to disclose the beneficiaries of his fortune, and all present will be affected. But someone has a...
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Simon & Schuster
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2004.
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English
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While working at the home of Lord Montfort, Nathaniel Hopson, a journeyman to master cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale, becomes caught up in an investigation into the supposed suicide of his patron, a melancholy man burdened by debt.
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[Wideacre trilogy] volume 2
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Simon & Schuster
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2003.
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English
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Intrigued by the ruined splendor of the Wideacre estate, Julia Lacey proceeds with her plans for its restoration and a romance with her cousin Richard, a course threatened by dark family legends.
19) Jane Eyre
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"Orphaned as a child, Jane has felt an outcast her whole young life. Her courage is tested once again when she arrives at Thornfield Hall, where she has been hired by the brooding, proud Edward Rochester to care for his ward Adèle. Jane finds herself drawn to his troubled yet kind spirit. She falls in love. Hard. But there is a terrifying secret inside the gloomy, forbidding Thornfield Hall. Is Rochester hiding from Jane? Will Jane be left heartbroken...
20) A week in winter
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St. Martin's
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c2001.
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English
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When Maudie Todhunter must sell her beautiful farmhouse Moorgate, she anticipates opposition from her late husband's family, particularly her stepdaugher Selina. Maudie also regrets not being able to leave Moorgate to Selina's daughter Posy. But no one could anticipate what happens when Melissa Clayton comes to view the house.
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