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2) Ethan Frome
Author
Publisher
Signet Classic
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
The residents of Corduroy Mansions are worried about William's terrier Freddie de la Hay, the only dog clever enough to have been recruited by MI6, who has disappeared while on a mystery tour around the Suffolk countryside.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
A reprint of the 1948 novel recounting the story of Cassandra Mortmain, a young woman living on the edge of poverty in a crumbling castle with her somewhat eccentric family, whose prospects begin to improve when new neighbors arrive from America.
6) Shirley
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
An 1849 novel set in early nineteenth-century England, which contrasts the situations of two women, the shy, restricted Caroline Helstone, who stands as a symbol of the plight of single women, and Shirley Keeldar, an heiress whose financial independence frees her from convention.
Author
Publisher
Otbebookpublishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
More of Jacobs's droll sailor misadventures, this time stretched to a novel. At the centre are not one but two Thames River captains juggling women who want to marry them, the story has traces of screwball comedy. (Goodreads).
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 180
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
A collection of sixty-two stories by twentieth-century author D.H. Lawrence, including "Odour of Chrysanthemums" and "The Woman Who Rode Away." Also features a brief biography and a chronology of significant events in the writer's life.
Author
Series
Travelling matchmaker volume 5th v
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
Hannah Pym works her matchmaking magic on a stagecoach journey to Dover.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mr Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in." -Evelyn Waugh
"Wodehouse is one of the funniest and most productive men who ever wrote in English. He is far from being a mere jokesmith: he is an authentic craftsman, a wit and humorist of the first water, the inventor of a prose style which is a...
18) Rake's progress
Author
Series
House for the season volume 4th
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Description
Concerned for the health of their pleasure-loving master, Lord Carlton, the servants set out to find a "good woman" who can calm the Lord's boisterous spirit and save his black soul.
Author
Series
School for manners volume 4th v
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
Amy and Effy, chaperones-for-hire, are determined to help Clarissa become the stately, graceful woman that will win the Earl of Greystone's heart.
Author
Series
Travelling matchmaker volume 6th v
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
As Miss Pym travels to York to find a former employer she meets a young Frenchwoman and decides to help her find a husband. Many surprises await both women.
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