The five Bennet girls need husbands. And now a rich, handsome bachelor has moved in next door. He falls in love with Jane, the oldest Bennet girl. Everything goes well—for a while. Then the handsome bachelor’s proud best friend, Mr. Darcy, ruins everything. Elizabeth Bennet has never hated anyone as much as she hates Mr. Darcy. How could she ever forgive the man who has ruined her sister’s happiness? She knows everything she needs to know about him. He is proud, hateful, conceited, and horrid—and he wants to marry her.
A brilliant evocation of the Roaring Twenties and a satire of a postwar America obsessed with wealth and status, The Great Gatsby is a novel whose power remains undiminished after a century. Writer Nick Carraway is drawn into the decadent orbit of the mysterious tycoon Gatsby, who seems to have everything but the one thing he wants; Nick's married cousin, Daisy Buchanan.
Widely recognized as the prototypical non-fiction novel, Capote spent six years researching the murders of four members of the Clutter family in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas. Detailed in eloquent prose and extensive detail with a triple narrative dealing the murderers, the victims, and the investigators, this is a must-read for all true crime fans.
A young girl growing up in an Alabama town in the 1930s learns of injustice and violence when her father, a lawyer, defends a black man accused of raping a white girl.