Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
Wit, pride, and the slowest of slow burns. Eternally re-readable.
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
A governess, a brooding master, and a secret in the attic.
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by Daphne du Maurier
A new bride haunted by the first Mrs. de Winter. Deliciously eerie.
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by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jazz-age longing and the green light across the bay.
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by Mary Shelley
Ambition, creation, and the monster we make. Gothic and prescient.
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