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After being laid off from her unfulfilling retail job, Emily decides to take a break from adulthoo and reevaluate her life with the help of her family.
A Paris perfumer decides to expand - a new line, a bigger apartment, a ball to which he invites everyone he owes - and Balzac follows the arithmetic of a small honest man's destruction, franc by franc, with the pitiless attention he usually gave to villains.
A young giant of a man comes home from Australia to an English estate he has inherited, with a brother in tow and a family disgrace behind him - and the county has already decided what to think.
An English aristocrat and an American girl look at each other across every assumption their two countries hold about money, rank and marriage - and the title is the whole method: each chapter shifts whose view we are inside.
A woman of twenty-four marries a widower with three grown-ish children and a house that has run itself badly for years, and gets almost everything wrong before she gets it right.
Lady Ludlow will not have the village children taught to read, because she once knew what a written word did in France; around her, an estate is changing hands and manners, and she is the last person who cannot see it.
A young priest sees a woman at the moment of his ordination and spends the rest of his life living two: a village curate by day, and by night a Venetian nobleman's companion in the palaces, with Clarimonde, who is dead.
The Baron and his friend Bunker, having escaped the asylum in an earlier volume, descend on an English country house under invented titles and proceed to court, duel and dine their way through it.
A French prisoner of war in Edinburgh Castle carves toys for pennies, escapes over the wall, and travels the length of Britain - with a bounty on him, a rich uncle dying in Amersham and a cousin who wants him hanged.
Portugal, 1810: Wellington's lines at Torres Vedras, an Irish officer accused of an outrage against a Portuguese convent, a court martial, and a political trap set for him by men on his own side.
A sequel written by another hand entirely: Monte Cristo's daughter grown, the old scores of the Count's revenge still bleeding, and Paris and Rome still full of people who remember.
A young man with a new motor-car and a chauffeur takes a girl and her family across New York State, and the car is the plot: a broken axle, a snowstorm, a lost road, a criminal at a level crossing.
An English fop with the finest lace in London leads a league that snatches aristocrats from the guillotine, and the Republic's cleverest agent is set on finding out who he is.
A shopkeeper in Soho sells stationery, pornography and information, and takes his orders from an embassy that wants an outrage shocking enough to frighten England into repression.
Ten thousand Greek mercenaries march into Persia for a prince who is killed in his first battle; their generals are seized under a flag of truce; and the survivors, leaderless in hostile country, elect a young Athenian to lead them home.
A ministry clerk of real ability is up for a vacant headship, and his wife runs a salon to get it for him - against a colleague who has understood that in an office the work is not the point.
The stories Hawthorne published anonymously in magazines over a dozen years and then collected at last under his own name: the minister who puts on a black veil and will not explain, the man who steps out of his life for twenty years to watch it from across the street, the ambitious guest.
A doctor comes to a wretched village in the Grande Chartreuse and, over twelve years, makes it prosperous - roads, a school, a market, an industry - and tells the story of his life to a soldier who has come to hear it.
Two interplanetary romances: a scientist's mind is projected into a body on a distant world where the ruling class has bred the workers into something less than human, and a second world where the women rule and the men are kept.
A missionary goes alone to a Zulu-speaking people whose king answers to a witch-doctor of real power, and offers a demonstration: his god against theirs.
A provincial French town, a duke's chateau, a peasant girl the duke's son loves, a murder on the night of a village fire, and a confession extracted from the wrong man.
The unmarried aunt: everyone's convenience, everyone's second thought, the woman who is sent for when a child has measles and sent home when it is over.
Lavretsky comes home to his estate at forty, ruined by a wife he has left in Paris, and meets a girl of nineteen who plays the piano - and then a newspaper reports that the wife is dead.
An ideal republic set out as a novel: the traveler arrives, the institutions are explained, and the argument about property, labor and marriage proceeds.
A New England schoolmaster meets a pupil the other girls will not sit near - cold to the touch, silent, with something in her look nobody can hold - and the book asks whether she can be held responsible for what she is.
A society palmist reads Lord Arthur's hand and finds murder in it; being a conscientious man, Lord Arthur decides he must get the crime over with before the wedding.
The Latin Quarter in the 1890s: four art students, a studio, a model, absinthe, and a young American who takes it all more seriously than his friends do.
Staring at an unidentified mark on her sitting-room wall, the narrator lets her thoughts drift - through snails and Troy, through Shakespeare and superstition, through the whole shape of a life - never quite arriving at an answer, and never needing to.
A young doctor of great promise marries money, and the money has a condition attached that he discovers only when the man who holds it will not die on schedule.
Cologne in the Middle Ages: a young man, a girl, a smell of sanctity, and the Devil - Meredith's first novel and a burlesque, in which the perfume that made Cologne famous is traced to a source no one expected.
Saint John, New Brunswick: shipping money, a merchant's daughters, a fortune-hunter and a courtship conducted under the eyes of a small colonial city that misses nothing.
