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Persuasion (version 5)

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Jane Austen

Persuasion is a regency Cinderella-esque tale of a young woman, the beautiful Anne Elliot, who is persuaded from marrying the Naval officer …

Term Begins

In A Prefect's Uncle

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P. G. Wodehouse

The action of the novel takes place at the fictional "Beckford College", a private school for boys; the title alludes to the arriv…

DECISION

In North and South (version 2)

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

North and South is a social novel that tries to show the industrial North and its conflicts in the mid-19th century as seen by an outsider, …

Chapter 8

In A Damsel in Distress

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P. G. Wodehouse

A Damsel in Distress is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.S. on October 4, 1919 by George H. Doran, New York, and in the …

Chapter 24

In Middlemarch

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George Eliot

The book examines the role of education in the lives of the characters and how such education and study has affected the characters. Rosamon…