Emma – Jane Austen
“Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite…”
No Life for a Lady – Hannah Dolby
“It was hot, the night my mother disappeared. It was a Saturday, and she had been going out. I had wanted to go out with her, because I…”
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
“I have just returned from a visit to my landlord – the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful…”
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but…”
Carry On – Rainbow Rowell
“I walk the Wood. I walk the fields. I cover the school grounds between classes, poking through empty buildings, opening long-closed…”
Cinderella Is Dead – Kalynn Bayron
“Cinderella has been dead for two hundred years. I’ve been in love with Erin for the better part of three years. And I am about two…”
Bridgerton: The Duke & I – Julia Quinn
“The birth of Simon Arthur Henry Fitzranulph Basset, Earl Clyvedon, was met with great celebration. Church bells rang for hours…”
The Princess Bride – William Goldman
“This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it. How is such a thing possible? I’ll do my best to explain.”
The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux
“It was the evening on which MM Debienne and Poligny, the managers of the Opera, were giving a farewell gala performance to make their…”