Clare West
1) Persuasion
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Pub. Date
2006
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Description
At nineteen Anne Elliot refuses an offer of marriage from Frederick Wentworth, persuaded to do so by Lady Russell. Eight years later, Wentworth returns, a rich and successful captain, looking for a wife. Anne is still unmarried, but his love for her seems to have died...
2) Jane Eyre
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
"Jane Eyre is alone in the world. Disliked by her aunt's family, she is sent away to school. Here she learns that a young girl, with neither money nor family to support her, can expect little from the world. She survives, but she wants more from live than simply to survive: she wants respect, and love. When she goes to work for Mr Rochester, she hopes she has found both at once. But the sound of strange laughter, late at night, behind a locked door,...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
'Soon I felt something alive moving along my leg and up my body to my face, and when I looked down, I saw a very small human being, only fifteen centimetres tall...I was so surprised that I gave a great shout.' But that is only the first of many surprises which Gulliver has on his travels. He visits a land of giants and a flying island, meets ghosts from the past and horses which talk...
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Contained in this work are six short plays with characters looking for answers to questions such as: how to get a licence to keep a monkey; what to do if your wife has a lover; how to see into the future; where to go for an exciting but cheap holiday somewhere hot and far away; and how to persuade your girlfriend or boyfriend to marry you?
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