The Life and Works of Jane Austen
By: Devoney Looser
4.36
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Born to the ranks of the lower English gentry in 1775, Jane Austen led what some have mistakenly de…
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1. Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon
By: None , Suzanne M. Desan
4.26
Format: 24 pages, Audible Audio
The 25 years between the onset of the French Revolution in 1789 and the Bourbon Restoration after N… read more
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- historical
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2. The Watsons
By: Jane Austen , John Coates
3.51
Format: 314 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Watsons by Jane Austen and John Coates, Signet paperback, 1977 read more
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- audiobook
- classics
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"Emma; but you must think him agreeable. Can you lay your hand on your heart, and say you do not? - Indeed I can, Both Hands; and spread to their widest extent."-Jane Austen, The Watsons
3. The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy
By: Adrienne Mayor
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against pois… read more
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- audiobook
4. Jane Austen at Home
By: Lucy Worsley
3.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
On the eve of the two hundredth anniversary of Jane Austen's death, take a trip back to her world a… read more
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- history
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5. Rare Objects
By: Kathleen Tessaro
3.50
Format: 218 pages, Hardcover
Maeve Fanning is a first generation Irish immigrant, born and raised among the poor, industrious It… read more
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- historical
- audiobook
6. A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and healer in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history i… read more
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7. Jane Austen, the Secret Radical
By: Helena Kelly
3.77
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, illuminating reassessment of the life and work of Jane Austen that makes clear how Aus… read more
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- history
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8. Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon
By: Jane Austen , Margaret Drabble
3.15
Format: None pages,
[] 'She has poured forth her tender tale of love in vain, and exposed herself forever to the conte… read more
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- classics
- british literature
9. Juvenilia
By: Jane Austen
4.30
Format: None pages,
Jane Austen's shorter works * Frederic & Elfrida * Jack & Alice * Edgar & Emma * Henry and Eliza * … read more
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- classics
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10. The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb
By: Melanie Benjamin
3.31
Format: None pages,
A barnstorming novel of the Gilded Age, and of a woman's public triumphs and personal tragedies, Th… read more
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11. Mary Barton
By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Shirley Foster
3.91
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 183… read more
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12. The Art of Reading
By: Timothy Spurgin
3.98
Format: 212 pages,
Artful reading - the way we read novels and short stories - is less about reading for specific info… read more
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13. The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World
By: Kathryn Rathke , None
2.50
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Jane Austen published her first novel in 1811, but today she's more popular than ever. Film adaptat… read more
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14. Great Minds of the Medieval World
By: Dorsey Armstrong
2.69
Format: 88 pages, Audible Audio
The Middle Ages was a time of major advances in many fields of knowledge, from theology and philoso… read more
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15. Lady Susan
By: Jane Austen , Robert William Chapman
3.65
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marria… read more
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"I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
"I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
"How little the general report of any one ought to be credited, since no character, however upright, can escape the malevolence of slander."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
"...though I always imagined from her increasing friendship for us since her husband's death that we should, at some future period, be obliged to receive her."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
16. Evelina
By: None , Edward A. Bloom
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Frances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive accou… read more
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17. Classics of British Literature
By: John Sutherland
3.83
Format: 32 pages,
For more than 1,500 years, the literature of Great Britain has taught, nurtured, thrilled, outraged… read more
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18. Marmee and Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother
By: Eve LaPlante
3.87
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Marmee & Louisa, hailed by NPR as one of the best books of 2012, paints an exquisitely moving and u… read more
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19. Sanditon
By: Jane Austen
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in 19th-century England, this gripping novel satirizes the pretentiousness and duplicity in rel… read more
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20. The Life and Works of Jane Austen
By: Devoney Looser
4.36
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Born to the ranks of the lower English gentry in 1775, Jane Austen led what some have mistakenly de… read more
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21. The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research
By: Dorsey Armstrong
4.08
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
2 hours and 43 minutes The world has been fundamentally changed by the shock and devastation of … read more
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22. The World of Byzantium
By: Kenneth W. Harl
4.05
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
Byzantium is too-often considered merely the "Eastern rump" of the old Roman Empire, a curious and … read more
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23. Ancient Mesopotamia: Life in the Cradle of Civilization
By: Amanda H. Podany
4.19
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
When we imagine what life might have been like thousands of years in the past, the images we often … read more
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24. Beyond Scandal and Desire (Sins for All Seasons, #1)
By: Lorraine Heath
3.99
Format: 384 pages, ebook
At birth, Mick Trewlove, the illegitimate son of a duke, was handed over to a commoner. Despite his… read more
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"You’re the daughter of an earl and I—"-Lorraine Heath, Beyond Scandal and Desire (Sins for All Seasons, #1)
25. The Great Tours: England, Scotland and Wales
By: Patrick N. Allitt
4.16
Format: 18 pages, Audible Audio
Whether you are searching for the past or want to better understand the world as it is today, trave… read more
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26. The Industrial Revolution
By: Patrick N. Allitt
4.25
Format: 19 pages, Audible Audio
From electric lights to automobiles to the appliances that make our lives easier at work and at hom… read more
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27. Shocking Psychological Studies and the Lessons They Teach
By: Thad A. Polk
4.00
Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio
We live in a time of amazing new technologies - and an unparalleled level of surveillance. Virtuall… read more
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28. A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England
By: Sue Wilkes
3.88
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
Immerse yourself in the vanished world inhabited by Austen’s contemporaries. Packed with detail, an… read more
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29. To Conquer Pride: A Pride and Prejudice Variation
By: Jennifer Altman
4.20
Format: 447 pages, Kindle Edition
The course of true love never did run smooth... When Fitzwilliam Darcy departs Hunsford after hi… read more
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30. The Mysterious Case of Agatha Christie
By: Maureen Corrigan
4.16
Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio
5 hours and 43 minutes Meet Agatha Christie, the best-selling novelist in human history. Her wri… read more
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31. Reading Pride and Prejudice in the 21st Century
By: Patricia A. Mathew
3.49
Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio
1 hour and 43 minutes After Romeo and Juliet, Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy might just … read more
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