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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë	The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where s…	OL1095427W
Barchester Towers	Anthony Trollope	The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 2: Barchester Towers Written as a sequel to "The Warden", this is the second book of the Barsetshire novels. Described as humorous, this wonderful novel that…	OL109724W
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein	Peter Ackroyd	When two nineteenth-century Oxford students--Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley--form an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only…	OL14914924W
Mr. Darcy broke my heart	Beth Pattillo	American Claire Prescott doesn't really understand Mr Darcy's appeal. But when she agrees to stand in for her sister at a Jane Austen seminar in Oxford, she finds herself holding a lost version of Pr…	OL15022526W
Be a genie in six easy steps	Linda Chapman	When new step-siblings Milly, Michael, Jason, and Jess move to a town in the middle of nowhere, the last thing they expect is to find a magic book. But when they stumble upon The Genie's Handbook, th…	OL15112167W
The legacy of Cain	Wilkie Collins	At the request of a person who has claims on me that I must not disown, I consent to look back through a long interval of years and to describe events which took place within the walls of an English …	OL176076W
Daniel Deronda	George Eliot	As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition o…	OL20933W
Orlando	Virginia Woolf	In her most exuberant, most fanciful novel, Woolf has created a character liberated from the restraints of time and sex. Born in the Elizabethan Age to wealth and position, Orlando is a young noblema…	OL39360W
Monday or Tuesday	Virginia Woolf	From the book:Whatever hour you woke there was a door shunting. From room to room they went, hand in hand, lifting here, opening there, making sure - a ghostly couple. “Here we left it,” she said. A…	OL39520W
Mayor of Casterbridge	Thomas Hardy	In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected…	OL44997W
The Castle of Mirrors (Children of the Red King)	Jenny Nimmo	Charlie and his magically gifted friends and relatives work together to rescue Billy Raven, a young orphan, from a mysterious and dangerous couple who have adopted him.	OL451766W
Come Near Me	Kasey Michaels	Kasey Michaels is adored by her many fans for her sparkling wit and the magic with which she brings the glittering world of Regency England to life. Now she mixes a dash of suspicion with a drop of t…	OL548282W
Her Only Desire	Gaelen Foley	From the exotic splendors of India to the elegant ballrooms of Regency London, celebrated author Gaelen Foley pens the enthralling tale of a luscious beauty who has sworn never to call any man her ma…	OL5689037W
Noble Destiny	Katie MacAlister	Regardless of the ton's disapproval, one woman will go to any length—even shooting her husband—to win his heart.	OL5693071W
Killing the Shadows	Val McDermid	Fiona Cameron, academic psychologist, used to help the police track serial offenders. She vowed never to work again for the Met when they ignored her advice but, when her friend's fellow crime noveli…	OL58100W
The little girls	Elizabeth Bowen	Three aging English ladies attempt, literally and figuratively, to dig up the secret of their childhood, but find only their own damaged selves.	OL724081W
Sons and Lovers	David Herbert Lawrence	<p><i>Sons and Lovers</i>, a story of working-class England, is <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/d-h-lawrence"><abbr>D. H.</abbr> Lawrence’s</a> third novel. It went through various drafts,…	OL81295W
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	J. K. Rowling	Harry Potter #1 When mysterious letters start arriving on his doorstep, Harry Potter has never heard of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. They are swiftly confiscated by his aunt and …	OL82563W
Silent in the sanctuary	Deanna Raybourn	Fresh from a six-month sojourn in Italy, Lady Julia returns home to Sussex to find her father's estate crowded with family and friends; but dark deeds are afoot at the deconsecrated abbey, and a murd…	OL8536127W
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging	Louise Rennison	Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win t…	OL92967W