The Great American Read


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Edmund Dantes, unjustly convicted of aiding the exiled Napoleon, escapes after fourteen years of imprisonment and seeks revenge in Paris.
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An unknown benefactor supplies an orphaned blacksmith's apprentice with the means to be educated in London as a gentleman of "great expectations."
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Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.
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When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first...
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Against a background of English moors in the 19th century, the lives of two families become intertwined through marriage, passion, and the dominating force of a man called Heathcliff.