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Howards End

Howards End is a novel by E. M. Forster about social conventions, codes of conduct and relationships in turn-of-the-century England. A strong-willed and intelligent woman refuses to allow the pretensions of her husband's smug English family to ruin h

101 Readers
44 Chapters
10 August 2023

Pride And Prejudice

Famous book by jane austen, pride and prejudice. Pride and Prejudice follows the turbulent relationship between Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a country gentleman, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rich aristocratic landowner. They must overcome the titula

86 Readers
61 Chapters
15 May 2023

MANSFIELD PARK

Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park, first published in 1814, tells the story of young Fanny Price, who is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, at the age of ten. As she grows up, she develops deep feelings for her cousin Edmund Bert

16 Readers
48 Chapters
7 September 2023

Persuasion

Persuasion by Jane Austen is a satirical romance that follows the love story of Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth. After Anne is persuaded by her family and Lady Russell to reject Wentworth, Anne loses her youthful happiness. When Captain Wentworth

7 Readers
24 Chapters
22 August 2023

The Bell Jar

The Bell Jar addresses the question of socially acceptable identity. It examines Esther's "quest to forge her own identity, to be herself rather than what others expect her to be." Esther is expected to become a housewife, and a self-sufficient woman

6 Readers
20 Chapters
15 August 2023

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in 1870. Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, it focuses more on Drood's uncle, John Jasper, a precentor, choirmaster and opium addict, who l

4 Readers
23 Chapters
24 July 2023

Far from the Madding Crowd

Far From the Madding Crowd is Hardy’s fourth novel and this is considered to be his warmest and sunniest novel. Most of his major novels especially those written in his later years like Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure have tragic end

12 Readers
58 Chapters
15 September 2023

How To Write A Bestseller

When a woman leaves a professional degree like CA in the final level and instead choose to take up her pen and begin a new journey in writing, what unfolds for her professional life? This is her story of dreams.

79 Readers
7 Chapters
12 August 2022

Oliver Twist

The story follows the titular orphan, who, after being raised in a workhouse, escapes to London, where he meets a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin, discovers the secrets of his parentage, and reconnects with his remainin

23 Readers
53 Chapters
22 May 2023

The Woodlanders

The Woodlanders, novel by Thomas Hardy, published serially in Macmillan's Magazine from 1886 to 1887 and in book form in 1887. The work is a pessimistic attack on a society that values high status and socially sanctioned behaviour over good character

7 Readers
48 Chapters
29 May 2023

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights", Emily Brontë's only novel, is one of the pinnacles of 19th-century English literature. It's the story of Heathcliff, an orphan who falls in love with a girl above his class, loses her, and devotes the rest of his life to wreaking

5 Readers
34 Chapters
13 June 2023

The Diary Of A Young Girl

Annelies Marie Frank (German pronunciation: [ˈanəˌliːs maˈʁiː ˈfʁaŋk], [ˈʔanə ˈfʁaŋk] (listen), Dutch: [ˈɑnəˌlis maːˈri ˈfrɑŋk], [ˈʔɑnə ˈfrɑŋk]; 12 June 1929 – c. February 1945)[1] was a German-Dutch diarist of Jewish heritage. One of the most discus

30 Readers
2 Chapters
25 April 2022

Mrs. Dalloway

Mrs. Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf published on 14 May 1925. It details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional upper-class woman in post-First World War England. It is one of Woolf's best-known novels.

6 Readers
11 Chapters
23 May 2023

The Dynasts: An Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon

The Dynasts is an English-language closet drama in verse and prose by Thomas Hardy. Hardy himself described this work as "an epic-drama of the war with Napoleon, in three parts, nineteen acts and one hundred and thirty scenes".

1 Readers
26 Chapters
5 July 2023

A Tale of Two Cities

The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to th

5 Readers
45 Chapters
17 June 2023

Sense and Sensibility

The novel follows the three Dashwood sisters and their widowed mother as they are forced to leave the family estate at Norland Park and move to Barton Cottage, a modest home on the property of distant relative Sir John Middleton. There Elinor and Mar

1 Readers
50 Chapters
23 June 2023

A Room With A View

A Room with a View" by E.M. Forster is a classic novel published in 1908. Set in Edwardian England, the story follows Lucy Honey church, a young Englishwoman from a respectable middle-class family. Lucy embarks on a journey of self-discovery and libe

0 Readers
20 Chapters
28 June 2023

Women in Love

Women in Love (1920) is a novel by English author D. H. Lawrence. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula. Gudrun Brangwen, an artist, pursues a des

36 Readers
2 Chapters
25 April 2022

Wives And Daughters

Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, Wives and Daughters centers on the story of youthful Molly Gibson, brought up from childhood by her father. When he remarries, a new step-sister enters Molly's quiet life – loveable, but worldly and

2 Readers
2 Chapters
29 April 2022

Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility tells the story of the impoverished Dashwood family, focusing on the sisters Elinor and Marianne, personifications of good sense (common sense) and sensibility (emotionality), respectively.

72 Readers
49 Chapters
27 April 2022