The Wordsworth Collection of Classic Romances

By Charlotte Brontë, Thomas Hardy, Jane Austen, Emily Brontë

Subjects: marriage, Historical Fiction, romantic fiction, Young women, death, young ladies, Psychological fiction, English fiction, English language readers, Country life, Reading Level-Grade 12, Country homes, love stories, Families, Cousins, orphans, Reading Level-Grade 9, Manners and customs, manners, Romance fiction, Rural families, Classic fiction, Interpersonal relations, relationships, romance, Reading Level-Grade 8, Inheritance and succession, tragedy, Social classes, family life, Reading Level-Grade 7, slavery, British and irish fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, wealth, Drama, Social life and customs, Reading Level-Grade 11, love, Man-woman relationships, 19th century English fiction, Sisters, English literature, revenge, English literature: texts, Juvenile fiction, Reading Level-Grade 10, Landscape in literature, Classic Literature, Foundlings, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Rejection (Psychology)

Description: [Pride & Prejudice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8193418W) Jane Austen constructed Pride & Prejudice, with wit, social precision and an irresistible heroine. Beginning with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, it is a perfect ironic novel of manners. Persuasion Jane Austen's question 'What is persuasion?' - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? - is the force behind this novel. Anne Elliot, one of Austen's quietest yet strongest heroines, is also open to change. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte's poor, plain, but plucky heroine, possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wid great courage. She is forced to battle against a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order. [Wuthering Heights](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL21177W) Emily Bronte's tale is a wild, passionate story of intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and the adopted foundling Heathcliff. Humiliated by Hindley, Catherine's brother, Heathcliff leaves Wuthering Heights, but in time he returns to exact a terrible revenge. Tess of the d'Urbervilles Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, a poor village girl, her relationships with two very different men, her fluctuating fortunes and her search for respectability.