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1) Jane Eyre
Author
Language
English
Description
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
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English
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Mansfield Park is the third novel by Jane Austen. Mansfield Park is a pygmalion morality epic. The events of the story are put in motion by three sisters: Lady Bertram, Mrs. Norris, and Mrs. Price. Of the three sisters, Lady Bertram married extremely well, to a wealthy baronet; Mrs. Norris married a parson, who is given the living at the local parsonage by Sir Thomas Bertram, Lady Betram's husband. This allows them to live comfortably, yet far below...
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English
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The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
4) Demon
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Polish
Description
Peter receives a piece of land as a gift for his upcoming wedding. While preparing the property to build a home for his new family, he finds human remains in the ground. He decides to keep the discovery to himself so that all of the wedding arrangements can go on as planned. However, the deeper he tries to keep his secret, the more he seems to be under control of something -- or rather someone -- as strange visions and events begin to haunt the celebratory...
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English
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On the heels of the success of A Christmas Journey comes this festive mystery. The joyful tranquility of a snowbound estate in the Lake District of England is overturned in a moment by a shocking murder. Renowned mathematician and inventor Henry Rathbone—long known to readers of Perry's bestselling Victorian series featuring William Monk—must put his analytical and creative capacities to the test as he assumes the role of an amateur...
8) Ashenden
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Physical Desc
339 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An epic saga of the upstairs and downstairs residents of an English country house which spans some 240 years and includes the stories of its original architect, a Victorian family that shared four decades of family history, soldiers billeted in the house during World War I, and a young couple who restores the house in the 1950s.
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English
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A heart-stopping tale of twisted obsession from the author who gives us everything we love in a thriller (O, The Oprah Magazine) The MacBrides lead a cozy life of upper class privilege: good looks (more or less), a beautiful home, tuition-free education at the prestigious private school where Rowan is headmaster, an altruistic righteousness inherited from magistrate Lydia. But when Rowan and his three grown children gather for the first time since...
10) Eclectic country
Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
192 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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Series
Language
English
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This first installment of a cozy mystery series transports listeners back to the bygone era of 1923 Britain, where unflappable flapper and fledgling journalist Daisy Dalrymple daringly embarks on her first writing assignment—and promptly stumbles across a corpse.
No stranger to sprawling country estates, wealthy Daisy Dalrymple is breaking new ground in having scandalously traded silver spoon for pen and camera to cover a story for Town
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xi, 446 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
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It is the seventeenth century and a wall is being raised around Wychwood, transforming the great house and its park into a private realm of ornamental lakes, grandiose gardens, and majestic avenues designed by Mr. Norris, a visionary landscaper. In this enclosed world everyone has something to hide after decades of civil war. Dissenters shelter in the woods, lovers rendezvous in secret enclaves, and outsiders--migrants fleeing the plague--find no...
13) Snobs
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Description
Julian Fellowes, creator of the Emmy-Award winning TV series Downton Abbey, established himself as an irresistible storyteller and a deliciously witty chronicler of modern manners in his first novel, Snobs, a wickedly astute portrait of the intersecting worlds of aristocrats and actors.
"The English, of all classes as it happens, are addicted to exclusivity. Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a
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Series
Language
English
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Readers of Anne Perry's bestselling suspense novels revel in a world that is all their own, sharing the privileged existence of Britain's wealthy and powerful elite in West End mansions and great country houses. It is also a world in which danger bides in unsuspected places and the line between good and evil can be razor thin. This new novel features Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould—one of the most memorable characters from the Thomas Pitt series—who...
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Series
Publisher
Vintage International/Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1993.
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IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the second World War, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on around him-- oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer. Still, there are even larger matters at stake in this heartbreaking,...
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English
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In The Long Weekend, acclaimed historian Adrian Tinniswood tells the story of the rise and fall of the English aristocracy through the rise and fall of the great country house. Historically, these massive houses had served as the administrative and social hubs of their communities, but the fallout from World War I had wrought seismic changes on the demographics of the English countryside. In addition to the vast loss of life among the landed class,...
20) Jane Slayre
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
396 p. : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a paranormal version of the nineteenth-century novel in which an orphaned young woman, a vampire slayer, accepts employment as a governess at a country estate only to discover that the master's wife, a werewolf, is being hidden in the attic.
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