"Mansfield Park" a novel by Jane Austen.
Its themes are very different from those of her other books, which can generally be simplified into one sentence, or even one phrase: Sense and Sensibility is about balancing emotions.
One thing is certain, this novel is not like Jane Austen's others.
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"A Modern Cinderella" is a book by Louisa May Alcott. Android edition of Alcott's Work with active table of contents. Start reading A Modern Cinderella on your Android device in under a minute.
"Persuasion" is a great literary work, and, to my mind, Jane Austen's finest book. This was her final completed novel before her death and was written in 1816 and was published posthumously in 1818. The title was not chosen by Jane Austen.
"Jane Austen's Persuasion focuses on the regret and loneliness of Anne Elliot, who had rejected a proposal of marriage from the one man she truly loved.
Of all the problems which the alert and curious mind of modern man is considering, none occupies him more than that of the relations of the sexes.
The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906.
How can I make life yield its fullest and best? How can I know the true secret of power?
The lessons herein taught are such as cannot be learned too early, nor dwelt on too long or too often, by those who are engaged in the active and all-absorbing duties of life.
The Lectures embraced in this volume, were written for the pulpit, in the usual manner of preparation for such labor, without any expectation of their appearing in print.
A religion of just being kind would be a pretty good religion, don't you think so?
Since its publication in 1678, The Pilgrim's Progress has never been out of print.
It is an old saying that Order is Heaven's First Law, and like many other old sayings it contains a much deeper philosophy than appears immediately on the surface.
THE Universe is governed by Law - one great Law. Its manifestations are multiform, but viewed from the Ultimate there is but one Law.
To the minds of most people, the term Personal Magnetism conveys the idea of a current radiating from the person of the magnetic individual, drawing to him all those within the radius of his magnetic force.
Students of history find a continuous chain of reference to the mysterious influence of one human mind over that of others.
Man is just what he thinks himself to be; he is big in capacity if he thinks big thoughts; he is small if he thinks small thoughts.
The desire of happiness, beyond all doubt, is a natural desire.
Joy: A Play on the Letter I, in Three Acts is a play by the Nobel Prize winning English writer John Galsworthy (1867 - 1933), best known for The Forsyte Saga and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter.
Buddhism passed into Japan from China and Korea about 1320 years ago, in or about the year A.D. 552.
Tom Sawyer Abroad sees Tom, Huck Finn and Jim board a futuristic hot air balloon bound for Africa, in a parody of the popular science fiction/travel adventure stories of the time.
Tom Sawyer, Detective follows Twain's popular novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Tom Sawyer Abroad.