Pride and Prejudice is a classic romantic comedy of manners written by English author Jane Austen and published in 1813. Set in rural Regency-era England, the novel is celebrated for its sparkling wit, brilliant social satire, and the iconic, slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance between its two unforgettable lead characters.
The novel follows Anne Elliot, the sensible, intelligent, and overlooked twenty-nine-year-old daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, a vain and haughty baronet who cares above all else about social status and physical appearance. Eight years earlier, Anne fell deeply in love with Captain Frederick Wentworth, a handsome, ambitious young naval officer with no fortune or family connections. Persuaded b…
Shakespeare's Sonnets is a collection of 154 poems written by William Shakespeare on a wide variety of themes, dealing with love, beauty, politics, the passage of time, and mortality. First published in 1609 (though many were written years earlier), the collection is one of the most celebrated and analyzed works of lyric poetry in the English language. Unlike traditional Renaissance love poe…
Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, originally serialized between 1837 and 1839. One of the most famous social novels in English literature, it offers a scathing critique of Victorian England’s Poor Law, the hypocrisy of institutional charity, and the grim realities of child labor, crime, and poverty in London's underworld.