klee: Fiction http://manybooks.net/shelf/8788.xml A user generated list of free ebooks from manybooks.net en-us webmaster@manybooks.net Fri, 10 Feb 12 17:52:02 -0700 <![CDATA[Pride and Prejudice]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/austenjaetext98pandp12.html Author: Jane Austen

Published: 1813

Austen's finest comedy of manners portrays life in the genteel rural society of the early 1800s, and tells of the initial misunderstandings (and mutual enlightenment) between lively and quick witted Elizabeth Bennet and the haughty Mr. Darcy.

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/austenjaetext98pandp12.html <![CDATA[Persuasion]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/austenjaetext94persu11.html Author: Jane Austen

Published: 1818

Eight years ago, Anne Elliot fell in love with poor but ambitious naval officer Captain Frederick Wentworth -- a choice which Anne's family was dissatisfied with. Lady Russell, friend and mentor to Anne, persuaded the younger woman to break off the match; now, on the verge of spinsterhood, Anne re-encounters Frederick Wentworth as he courts her spirited young neighbour, Louisa Musgrove. (Published posthumously.)

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/austenjaetext94persu11.html <![CDATA[Sense and Sensibility]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/austenjaetext94sense11.html Author: Jane Austen

Published: 1811

Two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood (Elinor representing ''sense'' and Marianne ''sensibility''), along with their mother and younger sister Margaret, are left impoverished after the death of their father, and the family is forced to move to a country cottage, offered to them by a generous relative.

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