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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
James Mustich
The best introduction to Austen’s work is surely the second of the six novels she wrote before her death at only forty-one, Pride and Prejudice, in which she introduces us to Elizabeth Bennet, the wittiest and most vivacious of five sisters on the hunt—if their mother has her way, at least—for husba...show more
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Desert Solitaire
Edward Abbey
Winter's Bone: A Novel
Daniel Woodrell
a young woman protagonist. With no romantic leads. no business for the American dream, in a story more common than white trash wal mart. She’s who we think we would be , if we only new ourselves, bred and buttered.
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Destitute young woman leaves rotten boarding school for job as governess in sprawling mansion, falls in love with broodingly handsome employer with dark secret. In the twenty-first century, the plot of Jane Eyre might sound clichéd, yet Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel, about a plain orphan girl exceed...show more
The Long Loneliness
Dorothy Day
The Long Loneliness, published in 1952, is the autobiography of Dorothy Day, the American political activist, pacifist, and cofounder of The Catholic Worker newspaper and movement. While Day has lately been put forth for canonization by the church, she might bridle at that idea: “Don’t call me a sai...show more