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Tess of the d’Urbervilles is a complex and impactful novel by Thomas Hardy. The novel follows the life of Tess, the eldest child of a family who believes they have a small claim to royalty because of their family name. When misfortune hits the family, Tess takes it upon herself to seek out a wealthier relative and ask for money, but instead is taken into the service of a libertine, who takes advantage of her situation and youth.

Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marriage for herself, while attempting to push her daughter into a dismal match. A magnificently crafted novel of Regency manners and mores that will delight Austen enthusiasts with its wit and elegant expression.

Thomas Hardy brings us an England that once existed but no more. It is rural, traditional, pastoral - a society of mannered conduct that flows like a deep river where powerful currents eddy and swirl. In this powerful novel of love and disillusion, Hardy's heroine is torn between the three men in her life. Passionate but capricious, her romantic involvements have fascinated generations of readers.

Charity Royall, a young New England woman of humble origins, meets and falls in love with the worldly Lucius Harney, an architect from the city. In evocative and descriptive prose, Edith Wharton conveys the ecstasy of Charity's first experience in sexual and romantic love, and pulls her heroine through the throes of loving a man who ultimately cannot choose her. Wharton's tale elicits the passion and despair of all great but ill-fated love affairs and enthralls the contemporary audience with its pathos just as it did nearly 100 years ago.

Lilli ist jung und bildhübsch, als sie im Sommer ihre Tante besucht. Im burgähnlichen Nachbarhaus wohnt ein geheimnisvoller junger Mann, Blaubart genannt. Es geht das Gerücht, er hielte eine Frau in seinem Turmzimmer gefangen. Lillis Neugier lässt sie dem Blaubart trotz strengsten Verbots begegnen. Zwischen den beiden entspinnt sich eine zarte Liebesgeschichte, während der ein uraltes Familiengeheimnis gelüftet wird. Mit seiner sonoren Stimme liest Heikko Deutschmann die Novelle der Thüringerin Eugenie Marlitt, die im 19. Jahrhundert zur ersten Bestsellerautorin der Welt aufstieg.