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  1. Little Women
    Alcott, Louisa May
    Four sisters--Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy--face hardships, illness, and poverty growing up in the late 1800s.

  2. Sense and Sensibility
    Austen, Jane
    Two sisters, one practical and conventional and the other emotional and sentimental, find that only through compromise of their mutual differences can they get along.

  3. The Woman in White
    Collins, Wilkie
    Marian and her sister Laura live a quiet life under their uncle's guardianship until Laura's marriage to Sir Percival Glyde. Sir Percival is a man of many secrets. Hence, Marian and the girls' drawing master, Walter, have to turn detective in order to work out what is going on, and to protect Laura from a fatal plot.

  4. A Passage to India
    Forster, E.M.
    Two women come to Chandrapore, India, and their lack of understanding of the culture causes one of them to make an unjust accusation.

  5. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
    Hardy, Thomas
    Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbevilles, and meeting her "cousin" Alec proves to be her downfall. When Angel Clare offers her love and salvation, she must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future.

  6. The Scarlet Letter
    Hawthorne, Nathaniel
    In early colonial Massachusetts, a young woman endures the consequences of her sin of adultery and spends the rest of her life in atonement.

  7. Lady Chatterley's Lover
    Lawrence, D.H.
    Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the invalid Sir Clifford. Clifford encourages her to have a liaison with a man of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to her husband's gamekeeper. Can she find equality with Mellors, despite the vast gulf between their positions in society?

  8. To Kill a Mockingbird
    Lee, Harper
    Scout's father defends a black man accused of raping a white woman in a small Alabama town during the 1930s.

  9. Wide Sargasso Sea
    Rhys, Jean
    In a prequel to Jane Eyre, Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway lives in Dominica and Jamaica in the 1830s before she travels to England, becomes Mrs. Rochester, and goes mad.

  10. The Picture of Dorian Gray
    Wilde, Oscar
    An exquisitely beautiful young man in Victorian England retains his youthful and innocent appearance over the years while his portrait reflects both his age and evil soul as he pursues a life of decadence and corruption.