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    Emma

    Emma

    Jane Austen

    4.33 (18)

    Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

    #51
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    13,107
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    Pride and Prejudice

    Pride and Prejudice

    Jane Austen

    3.97 (30)

    It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

    #11
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    27,935
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    Sense and Sensibility

    Sense and Sensibility

    Jane Austen

    3.5 (10)

    The family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.

    #105
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    7,800
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    Persuasion

    Persuasion

    Jane Austen

    3.6 (15)

    Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs, changed naturally into pity and contempt.

    #112
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    7,342
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