Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=6639&N=3+7435+4294962610 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=935219 A young Victorian Englishwoman runs from love in Florence, but returns to England where she must be taught how to listen to her heart. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=752231 In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer, who has a terrible secret. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=804903 Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=707555 When Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relations at Mansfield Park she seems shy and withdrawn beside her witty and vivacious cousins. But Fannys steadfast and purposeful character makes her an indispensable part of the household. As the others become entangled in a maze of flirtation and intrigue, it is only Fanny whose deep but secret love for Edmund Bertram remains true despite his fascination with her brilliant but frivolous cousin Mary. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=762927 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=806179 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=529906 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=999446 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=520799 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=493858 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=998279 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=395019 Contexts explores the personal and social issues that loom large in the novel -- sense, sensibility, self-control, judgment, romantic love, family, and inheritance -- in works by Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth, and an anonymous contributor to Ladys Magazine. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=511440 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=522858 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=511226 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=505538 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279945 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=511245 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=481783 Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=327709 Rachel Vinrace, Woolfs first heroine, is a motherless young woman who, at twenty-four, embarks on a sea voyage with a party of other English folk to South America. Guileless, and with only a smattering of education, Rachel is taken under the wing of her aunt Helen, who desires to teach Rachel how to live. Arriving in Santa Marina, a village on the South American coast, Rachel and Helen are introduced to a group of English expatriates. Among them is the young, sensitive Terence Hewet, an aspiring writer, with whom Rachel falls in love. But theirs is ultimately a tale of doomed love, set against a chorus of other stories and other points of view, as the narrative shifts focus between its central and peripheral characters. This edition includes a new Introduction by Michael Cunningham. Cunningham at once unfolds an engaging short essay of Woolfs early life and career, an insightful exploration of the themes to which Woolf returns again and again in her fiction, and a spirited defense of the relevance and lasting importance of her art.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=508768 From the day of its troubled publication in 1900 to its inclusion in Modern Librarys list of Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century, Sister Carrie has been a source of controversy and debate. Regarded as the first masterpiece of the American naturalist movement, this 100th Anniversary Edition of the classic includes material by the author and a new introduction by the definitive Dreiser biographer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=749111 During an eventful social season at Bath, the charmingly imperfect Catherine is invited to Northanger Abbey, the mysterious country home of the sophisticated Tilney family. There she believes she has discovered all the trappings of a gothic novel, and she imagines the worst. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=311143 Panturle lives in the village of Aubignane, in the Provencal uplands. He is a huge man: When he met a living animal, he looked at it without moving: it was a fox, a hare, or a big snake in the rubble. He did not move; he took his time. He knew that somewhere in a bush there was a wire noose which strangled necks that passed by. Aubignane was a deserted village. That autumn Gaubert the smithy, a little man all moustache, left; and before the winter was out the well-sinkers widow had left as well. Then only Panturle remained, a man made morose almost to the point of madness by his solitude. He gave up planting and lived off what he could catch. Then out of the blue a woman arrived, someone to live for, someone to till the soil for and plant new seed. Even a village can be raised from the dead.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=312417 Described by Hardy as a tale of mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity, his first published novel violated the literary decorum of its day with blackmail, murder, and romance. It relates the story of Cytherea, a maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe, and the man she loves, Edward Springrove. Upon discovering that Edward is already engaged, Cytherea comes under the influence of Miss Aldclyffes fascinating, manipulative steward, Manston. Published anonymously in 1871, Desperate Remedies already bears the unmistakable imprint of Hardys genius. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=94057 This critical edition of Thomas Hardys 1891 British Victorian novel reprints the authoritative second impression of the 1920 Wessex edition together with five critical essays - newly commissioned or revised - that read Tess of the dUrbervilles from five contemporary critical perspectives. Each critical essay is accompanied by a succinct introduction to the history, principles, and practice of the critical perspective and by a bibliography that promotes further exploration of that approach. In addition, the text and essays are complemented by an introduction providing biographical and historical contexts for Hardy and Tess of the dUrbervilles, a survey of critical responses to the work since its initial publication, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=465735 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=29715 Alluring, high-spirited American heiress Isabel - I always want to know the things one shouldnt do ... so as to choose - is in Europe to seek her own destiny. But after refusing marriage proposals from both Lord Warburton, a prince of the aristocracy, and Caspar Goodwood, a prince of American industry, Isabel becomes utterly captivated by the languid charms of Gilbert Osmond, whom she sees as the prince she has been looking for. To him, she represents a superior prize worth a fortune; through him, she faces a tragic choice. Love, intrigue, and betrayal make this timeless, many-layered masterpiece a profound and moving mirror of the human condition.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=433059 The romantic clash of two opinionated young people provides the sustaining theme of Austens 1813 masterwork. Spirited Elizabeth Bennet is one of a family of five daughters. With no male heir, the Bennet estate must someday pass to their priggish cousin Collins. Therefore, the girls must marry well--and the arrogant bachelor Mr. Darcy is Elizabeths elusive match. Reprint. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=2202 A New Englander of humble origins, Charity is swept into a torrid love affair with Lucien Harney, an artistically inclined young man from New York City. The conventions that rule society, however, are just as potent in Charitys world as in Ethan Fromes, and her dreams, like his, are inevitably thwarted. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=179849 Through the stories of Fanny Price, the Bertrams, and the Crawfords, she tackles the themes of faith and constancy and the threat that metropolitan manners could pose to a rural way of life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=368649 Published in 1813, Pride and Prejudice announced the arrival of the comedy of manners, a welcome change from the stiff, moralistic novels of the past. In recounting the courtship of the witty, indpendent Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy--the handsome bachelor whose arrogant pride Elizabeth regards as a fatal flaw--Austen illuminates, with subtle humor, the prejudices of society as a whole. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=179420 Called a perfect novel by Harold Bloom, Persuasion was written while Jane Austen was in failing heath. She died soon after its completion, and it was published in an edition with Northanger Abbey in 1818. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=179856 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austens perfect comedy of manners - one of the most popular novels of all time - that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=605509 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=773755 Daisy is as free as the air, but an innocent abroad. Her life encompasses the tragic difficulties of youth, tradition and love.