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Classic in modern language
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The Thirteenth Tale: A NovelThe Thirteenth Tale: A Novel by Diane Setterfield
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Take place in a library. Good started to this list.
Adele: Jane Eyre's Hidden StoryAdele: Jane Eyre's Hidden Story by Emma Tennant
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Telling the Jane Eye's Story, throught the little Girl
Emma in Love: Jane Austen's Emma ContinuedEmma in Love: Jane Austen's Emma Continued by Emma Tennant
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Pemberley: Or Pride and Prejudice ContinuedPemberley: Or Pride and Prejudice Continued by Emma Tennant
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An Unequal Marriage, Or, Pride and Prejudice Twenty Years LaterAn Unequal Marriage, Or, Pride and Prejudice Twenty Years Later by Emma Tennant
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The Friendly Jane Austen: A Well-Mannered Introduction to a Lady of Sense and SensibilityThe Friendly Jane Austen: A Well-Mannered Introduction to a Lady of Sense and Sensibility by Natalie Tyler
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Fragile Things: Short Fictions and WondersFragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman
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Short Story, some from the Classice. For example "The Problem of Susan" who deals with C.S. Lewis's Created character.
The Mark Twain Murders (Beth Austin Mysteries)The Mark Twain Murders (Beth Austin Mysteries) by Edith Skom
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Not exactly retelling a classic in modern language- the main character is a English teach in a college. Possiably some explaining of Mark Twain writting
American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their WorkAmerican Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work by Susan Cheever
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Author of Little Women and a couple of other. Their word used make reading their work hard for me, but I still like to about those characters and the people behind them
Presumption: An EntertainmentPresumption: An Entertainment by Julia Barrett
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Jane Austen's Charlotte: Her Fragment of a Last Novel, CompletedJane Austen's Charlotte: Her Fragment of a Last Novel, Completed by Julia Barrett
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The Third SisterThe Third Sister by Julia Barrett
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Mary Shelley: Frankenstein's Creator (Barnard Biography Series (Berkeley, Calif.).)Mary Shelley: Frankenstein's Creator (Barnard Biography Series (Berkeley, Calif.).) by Joan Kane Nichols
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Priestess Of AvalonPriestess Of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Arthurian Legends
Taliesin: Book One of the Pendragon CycleTaliesin: Book One of the Pendragon Cycle by Stephen R. Lawhead
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To Mock a MockingbirdTo Mock a Mockingbird by Raymond M. Smullyan
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The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes: Fifty Tantalizing Problems of Chess DetectionThe Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes: Fifty Tantalizing Problems of Chess Detection by Raymond M. Smullyan
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The Chess Mysteries of the Arabian KnightsThe Chess Mysteries of the Arabian Knights by Raymond M. Smullyan
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Alice in Puzzle-Land A Carrollian Tale for Children Under EightyAlice in Puzzle-Land A Carrollian Tale for Children Under Eighty by Raymond M. Smullyan
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A Separate PeaceA Separate Peace by John Knowles
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This is a classific for children. Luckily it get reprintly, yearly. Hopefully the words choices and sentence structure is recognition. Need when one read by sentence and not words.