Jane Austen's first published novel, sparkling with wit and artistry, captures the inequities of birth, class, and marriage faced by the sisters Dashwood. Published in 1811, Sense and Sensibility has delighted generations of readers with its masterfully crafted portrait of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Forced to leave their home after their father's death, Elinor and Marianne must rely on making good marriages as their means of support....

The tale of an 18th-century physician who takes eight years to travel through a variety of fantastical lands, only to have everyone but his wife take him for a madman when he returns home.

Eternal warfare is the price of bleak prosperity in this satire of totalitarian barbarism.

Presents the classic nineteenth-century work focusing on the consequences of adultery and unacknowledged guilt in Puritan New England.

In The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot re-creates her own childhood through the story of the wild, gifted Maggie Tulliver and her spoiled, selfish brother. Though tragic in its outcome, this tenderly comic novel combines vivid vignettes of family life with a magnificent portrait of the heroine and an acute critique of Victorian sexual politics.

A Victorian governess's love for her mysterious employer is threatened by the tragic secret of his mansion

Woman's past and contemporary situation in Western culture is the focus of a detailed and uninhibited analysis of womanhood.