The long ones
Over thirteen hours each, for a season of reading.
- Bleak HouseEsther Summerson, raised to feel ashamed of her unknown birth, finds affection and purpose as housekeeper to the generous John Jarndyce at Bleak House.
- Daniel DerondaGwendolen Harleth wants admiration, wealth and freedom, but her family's financial ruin forces her to consider earning a living or marrying.
- ArmadaleIt was the opening of the season of eighteen hundred and thirty-two, at the Baths of Wildbad. The evening…
- Wives and DaughtersMolly Gibson grows up devoted to her widowed father, a doctor in Hollingford.
- Under Two FlagsBertie Cecil, a popular officer in the British Guards, lives extravagantly despite mounting debts.
- Adam BedeAdam Bede, a skilled carpenter in Hayslope, hopes to marry Hetty Sorrel, the beautiful niece of the farming Poysers.
- East LynneLady Isabel Vane is left penniless when her father, Lord Mount Severn, dies.
- Ben-HurThree wise men follow a star to Bethlehem and worship the newborn Jesus.
