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Social class, friendship, and morality meet in a tangled web that only love can unweave.
Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park, first published in 1814, tells the story of young Fanny Price, who is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, at the age of ten. As she grows up, she develops deep feelings for her cousin Edmund Bertram, the only person at Mansfield Park who shows her true kindness. When the Bertram family is thrown into scandal...
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Pub. Date
2013
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English
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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 Lydia's passing at the family's weekend home -- a restored barn in the English countryside -- years of secrets surface, and they...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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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, pitch-perfect novel...
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A lost child: On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her -- but has disappeared without a trace. A terrible secret: On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell Andrews learns a secret that will change her life forever. Decades later, she embarks upon a search for the truth that leads her to the windswept Cornish coast and the...
6) Jane Eyre
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English
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Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. How she takes up the post of governess at Thornfield Hall, meets and loves Mr Rochester and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage are elements in a story that transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a wider and richer life than that traditionally...
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Wideacre trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1989
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472 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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The continuing saga of the Laceys, an 18th-century Sussex family, and the superstitious villagers who knew the legend of the favored child, who would make Wideacre grow lush again.
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Five years after working with Ali and Mahmoud Hazr in Palestine, Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell are shocked when they meet the brothers again in England. Instead of Arabs, their friends are really British aristocrats, Alistair and Marsh Hughenfort. The brothers need help finding the heir to their family estate, the stunningly beautiful Justice Hall. This is a search that will eventually take Holmes and Russell thousands of miles from home.
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MetroBooks
Pub. Date
c1996
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96 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
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English
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The splendor of French country style comes alive in this new compilation of exquisite design from the Architecture & Design Library. A wellspring of ideas and inspiration, this volume is a perfect reference for home decorators and design enthusiasts alike.
10) The past
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English
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Three sisters, a brother, and their children assemble at their country house one last time before it is sold. These three weeks may be their last time there; the upkeep is prohibitive, and they may be forced to sell this beloved house filled with memories of their shared past (their mother took them there to live when she left their father). Yet beneath the idyllic pastoral surface, hidden passions, devastating secrets, and dangerous hostilities threaten...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
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675 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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When Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the new Victoria and Albert Museum—a talented working-class boy who could be a character out of one of Olive's magical tales—she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends. But the joyful bacchanals Olive hosts at her rambling country house—and the separate, private books she writes for each of her seven children—conceal more treachery...
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
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viii, 294 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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It's London in 1876, and the whole city is abuzz with the enigmatic disappearance of a famous foreign pianist. Lenox has an eye on the matter: as a partner in a now-thriving detective agency, he's a natural choice to investigate. Just when he's tempted to turn his focus to it entirely, however, his grieving brother asks him to come down to Sussex, and Lenox leaves the metropolis behind for the quieter country life of his boyhood. Or so he thinks....
13) Jane Eyre
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Jane Eyre is raised in her aunt's house after the death of her parents. Her aunt cannot stand the queer, quiet child and sends her off to a spartan boarding school where she is severely mistreated. She survives, however, and eventually finds herself a situation as a governess in the household of Edward Rochester. She and Rochester fall passionately in love, in one of the great literary love stories. But a dark secret in his house will tear them
...14) Gótico
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Editorial Planeta Mexicana, S.A. de C.V. bajo el sello editorial Minotauro M.R
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 24 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Tras recibir una extrana carta de su prima recien casada, Noemi Taboada se dirige a High Place, una casa en el campo en Mexico, sin saber que encontrara alli. Noemi no parece tender dotes de salvadora: es glamurosa, mas acostumbrada a asistir a cocteles que a las tareas de detective. Pero tambien es fuerte, inteligente, y no tiene miedo: ni del nueve marido de su prima, un ingles amenazante y seductor; ni de su padre, el antiguo patriacra que parece...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
317 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
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"Since the moment we first entered Downton Abbey in 1912, [many viewers] have been swept away by Julian Fellowes's evocative world of romance, intrigue, drama, and tradition. Now, in 1925, as Downton Abbey prepares to close its doors for the final time, Jessica Fellowes leads us through the house and estate, reliving the iconic moments of the ... aristocratic Crawley family and their servants as they navigate the emerging modern age"--Dust jacket...
16) Rebecca
Series
Criterion collection volume 135
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (130 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
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English
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A young woman who believes she has found her heart's desire when she marries the dashing aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter. But upon moving to Manderley, her groom's baroque ancestral mansion, she soon learns that his deceased wife's memory haunts not only the home but the temperamental, brooding Maxim as well.
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