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Mansfield Park

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park is Jane Austen's 1814 novel featuring one Fanny Price, a young woman with no social power. She barely exists, even to the people she knows - and her family generally keeps in her place...

Love and Freindship, and Other Early Works

Jane Austen

Love and Freindship is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790. From the age of eleven until she was eighteen, Austen wrote her tales in three notebooks. These still exist, one in the Bodleian Lib..

Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, in 1803. However, it was not published until after her death in 1817, along with another novel of hers, Persuasi..

Lady Susan

Jane Austen

Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871. This early complete work, which the author never submitted for publication, describes the ..

Persuasion

Jane Austen

Persuasion is the last novel fully completed by Jane Austen. It was published at the end of 1817, six months after her death. The story concerns Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of 27 years, whose fa..

A Daughter of the Snows

Jack London

A Daughter of the Snows is Jack London's first novel. Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse, "a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie" who takes to the trail after upsetting her wealth..

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce

In 1916, at the age of thirty-two, James Joyce published the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The work would establish Joyce as a leader in the movement know as lit..

Burning Daylight

Jack London

Burning Daylight is a novel by Jack London, published in 1910, which was one of the best-selling books of that year and it was London's best-selling book in his lifetime. The novel takes place in the ..