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The best known books in the library.
- FrankensteinRobert Walton sails toward the North Pole seeking discovery and glory but longs for a sympathetic friend.
- DraculaJonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to help Count Dracula buy property in England.
- EmmaEmma Woodhouse, wealthy, clever, and unmarried, lives with her anxious father at Hartfield in Highbury.
- Wuthering HeightsHeathcliff, an orphan brought home by Mr. Earnshaw, grows up devoted to Earnshaw’s daughter Catherine and persecuted by her brother Hindley.
- A Room with a ViewLucy Honeychurch travels to Florence with her older cousin Charlotte Bartlett.
- Anne of Green GablesMatthew and Marilla Cuthbert, an elderly brother and sister living at Green Gables in Avonlea, arrange to adopt an orphan boy to help Matthew farm.
- A Study in ScarletDr. John Watson returns to England after wounds and fever end his army service in Afghanistan.
- Up from SlaveryBorn enslaved on a Virginia plantation, Booker T. Washington seeks an education and a way to help other Black Americans achieve lasting independence.
- A Little PrincessSeven-year-old Sara Crewe leaves India with her devoted father, Captain Ralph Crewe, to attend Miss Minchin's school in London.
- 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.
