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«Emma» is the fourth novel penned by the esteemed English writer Jane Austen (1775–1817).

Nineteen-year-old Margaret Hale lives in London. Her life is turned upside down when her family moves to Milton Northern. It is a cotton-manufacturing town, which is at the centre of a workers’ revolution. At first, Margaret is hostile to John Thornton, a wealthy manufacturer; but over time, she begins to admire the way he rose from poverty. After a series of dramatic events, Thornton unexpectedly makes his declaration of love to her, but Margaret does not accept it, although she begins to realize the depth of Thornton’s personality.

The novel «Mansfield Park», the third published novel of Jane Austen (1775–1817), belongs to the mature period of her work.

«Persuasion» is the last novel completed by the esteemed English writer Jane Austen (1775–1817). It was published at the end of 1817, six months after her death.

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564–1616).

«Northanger Abbey» is a novel by the English writer Jane Austen (1775–1817), written in the Gothic style fashionable at the time with irony characteristic of the author.

The novel The Beautiful and Damned (1922) by F. Scott Fitzgerald begins shortly before World War I. Anthony Patch, a twenty five-year-old Harvard University graduate, returns to New York. He is the likely heir to his grandfather’s vast fortune. Anthony meets the beautiful Gloria Gilbert. They fall madly in love and decide to get married. But Gloria and Anthony’s marital happiness is short-lived, as each person’s selfishness comes to the fore.