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The Age of Innocence (Everyman's Library)The Age of Innocence (Everyman's Library) by Edith Wharton
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Mr. Newland Archer loves May Welland, because it's the right thing to do. Mr. Newland Archer burns for Countess Ellen Olenska, and it's a sin. At least, that's what everyone around him would say and so he marries May and dies a little bit everyday afterwards.
Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Poor Becky Sharp, so beautiful and cunning, but so cold. So many men were willing to die for her, and she may have help one along unnaturally.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Oxford World's Classics)Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Hardy
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Dear Angel Clare, You are an idiot. Love, All Women P.S. "...now I shall not live for you to despise me".
The House of Mirth (Everyman's Library)The House of Mirth (Everyman's Library) by Edith Wharton
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Lily Bart cries victim all her life, but really she's a prisoner of her own pride and ignorance. She doesn't realize her own true needs until hurting all the people in her life that really love her, including herself.
The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics)The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Dimmesdale lives in his own hell on earth, but was it worth it for you Hester?
Great Expectations (Everyman's Library)Great Expectations (Everyman's Library) by Charles Dickens
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Yes, Estella is cold and heartless, but she knows it and protects Pip from herself. It's Miss Havisham who missed out on the endearing love of a daughter and son in Estella and Pip.
The End of the Affair (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)The End of the Affair (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Graham Greene
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Bendrix hates Sarah Miles with jealous passion. Bendrix loves Sarah Miles with passionate jealousy.