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Jane Austen is one of the founders of classic novels for women. Her most famous novel Pride and Prejudice is rightfully considered to be the masterpiece of the world literature. Walter Scott, Somerset Maugham, Virginia Woolf and Richard Aldington admired the talented (3z(Bfirst Lady(3y (Bof the English literature. Wittily and directly described actions of the Pride and Prejudice happen in provincial England in the end of eighteenth century. For about...

She was an innocent beauty seduced by a pirate's kisses—and a gentleman's lies . . . 
“[Amanda] Quick has provided an inviting little world of warmth, adventure, mystery, bouncy sex, and a (never oppressive) Regency setting.”—Kirkus Reviews
From Seduction to Surrender and Reckless to Ravished, New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick has spun one thrilling...

"Liverpool, 1935: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what's expected of her: marry a Catholic man from her working-class neighborhood and have his children. However, when she finds herself pregnant after a fling with Joshua Levinson, a Jewish man with dreams of becoming a famous Jazz musician, Viv knows that a swift wedding is the only answer. Her only solace is that marrying Joshua will mean escaping her strict mother's scrutiny....

London, 1880. Left destitute after her father's death, Frances Irvine is forced to abandon her life of privilege and emigrate to South Africa. In a remote and inhospitable land, she becomes entangled with two very different men - one driven by ambition, the other by his ideals. Only when the rumor of a smallpox epidemic takes her into the dark heart of the diamond mines does she see her path to happiness. But this is a ruthless world . . .

"Mae has watched as her three older sisters have gone through the process of finding their place in the world and faced the challenges of parenthood head on. Now ready to spread her wings beyond her close-knit family, Mae is ready to take the world by storm.But a series of events will shake the strong self-belief Mae has always had in herself and will leave her questioning where it is she really fits in.The Amir sisters will need to draw on all the...

As a child, Charlotte Jackson arrived in Australia on the convict ship where her mother died. Now a young woman, she is thriving, a successful dressmaker and a junior partner at Hippesley's Emporium. But she yearns to belong, and dreams of returning to England to discover more about her family. Travelling over the sea to London, she wonders what kind of life she will find there. And what part might the handsome Alexander Melford play in it? Can they...

Twenty-seven-year-old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a navel officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that such a match is "unworthy." The breakup produces in Anne a deep and long-lasting regret. When later Wentworth returns from sea a rich and successful captain, he finds Anne's family...