Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure...more
In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters. Includes explanatory notes throughout the text, an introduction discussing the author and the background of the story, and a study guide.
At age fifteen, the day her parents were going to lock her up in a psychiatric ward, Violetta stole a stack of money from her family and escaped from Mexico to the United States, a country with luxuries, vices and many unhappy husbands to discover. During her rebellious, turbulent and wild adventures in New York City, Violetta narrates the fears, t...more
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