The Wordsworth Collection of Classic Romance

Description:

[Pride & Prejudice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8193418W) Jane Austen constructed Pride & Prejudice, with wit, social precision and an irresistible heroine. Beginning with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, it is a perfect ironic novel of manners. Persuasion Jane Austen's question 'What is persuasion?' - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? - is the force behind this novel. Anne Elliot, one of Austen's quietest yet strongest heroines, is also open to change. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte's poor, plain, but plucky heroine, possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wid great courage. She is forced to battle against a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order. [Wuthering Heights](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL21177W) Emily Bronte's tale is a wild, passionate story of intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and the adopted foundling Heathcliff. Humiliated by Hindley, Catherine's brother, Heathcliff leaves Wuthering Heights, but in time he returns to exact a terrible revenge. Tess of the d'Urbervilles Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, a poor village girl, her relationships with two very different men, her fluctuating fortunes and her search for respectability.

subjects: Children's fiction,  Classic fiction,  Classic Literature,  Country homes,  Country life,  Cousins,  death,  Drama,  English language readers,  English literature,  English literature: texts,  Families,  family life,  Fiction,  Foundlings,  Historical Fiction,  Inheritance and succession,  Interpersonal relations,  Juvenile fiction,  Landscape in literature,  love,  Man-woman relationships,  Manners and customs,  orphans,  Psychological fiction,  Reading Level-Grade 7,  Reading Level-Grade 8,  Reading Level-Grade 9,  Reading Level-Grade 10,  Reading Level-Grade 11,  Reading Level-Grade 12,  Rejection (Psychology),  revenge,  romance,  Romance fiction,  romantic fiction,  Rural families,  slavery,  Social life and customs,  tragedy,  Triangles (Interpersonal relations),  Young women,  English fiction,  19th century English fiction,  British and irish fiction,  love stories,  manners,  marriage,  relationships,  Sisters,  Social classes,  wealth,  young ladies

People: Catherine Earnshaw,  Cathy Linton,  Edgar Linton,  Heathcliff,  Hindley Earnshaw,  Isabella Linton,  Joseph,  Linton Heathcliff,  Mr Lockwood,  Nelly Dean,  Zillah,  Elizabeth Bennet,  Fitzwilliam Darcy,  Charlotte Lucas,  George Wickham,  Mr. Bennet,  Mrs. Bennet,  Jane Bennet,  Mary Bennet,  Catherine Bennet,  Lydia Bennet,  Charles Bingley,  Caroline Bingley,  William Collins,  Catherine de Bourgh

Places: England,  Brighton,  Derbyshire,  Hertfordshire,  Meryton,  Longbourn,  Netherfield,  Pemberley,  Yorkshire,  Northern England,  Wuthering Heights,  Thrushcross Grange,  Yorkshire (England),  Inglaterra,  Ying guo

Times: 1801,  19th Century