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Nineteenth Century, Twenty-First Century Feelings

For anyone who thinks the old ones are polite. They are not polite. They are furious and extremely well dressed.

a list by Jane O.7 books

  1. Persuasion

    “Start here, not with Pride and Prejudice. Fight me.”

    Jane Austen

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    1
  2. Jane Eyre

    Charlotte Brontë

    Shelve
    2
  3. Middlemarch

    “The best marriage plot ever written and it is about money.”

    George Eliot

    Shelve
    3
  4. Wuthering Heights

    “Nobody in this book is well and that is the appeal.”

    Emily Brontë

    Shelve
    4
  5. Tess of the d'Urbervilles

    “Bring a friend.”

    Thomas Hardy

    Shelve
    5
  6. The Woman in White

    “Marian Halcombe deserved better and got a sequel nobody reads.”

    Wilkie Collins

    Shelve
    6
  7. Wide Sargasso Sea

    “Read straight after Jane Eyre. It will ruin the first one, correctly.”

    Jean Rhys

    Shelve
    7