Books like Northanger Abbey
A young woman raised on gothic novels arrives at a country estate expecting dark secrets and discovers instead the real dangers of misjudging people.
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Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Bennet, the witty second of five unmarried sisters, and Mr Darcy, a proud and wealthy gentleman, misjudge each other badly, and only slowly learn how wrong they both were.
Emma
A brilliant, meddling young woman convinced she can arrange everyone's love life discovers she's been wrong about her own heart all along.
A Room with a View
A young woman visits Florence and discovers that passion and spontaneity offer more than the propriety she was raised to value.
Someone to Love
When the Earl of Riverdale dies, his family learns that Anna Snow, raised in a Bath orphanage and teaching there, is his legitimate daughter and heir, which leaves his other children illegitimate and Anna under the eye of the cool, elegant Duke of Netherby.
The Duke and I
In Regency London, Daphne Bridgerton, eldest daughter of a large and loving family, and Simon Basset, the new Duke of Hastings, who has sworn never to marry, pretend to court so he can escape the matchmaking mothers and she can attract better suitors.
Lord of Scoundrels
Jessica Trent comes to Paris to pull her brother out of the debauched circle of Lord Dain, a marquess convinced no respectable woman could want him, and their first meeting sets off a scandal and a duel of wits.
The Duchess Deal
Emma Gladstone, a vicar's daughter turned seamstress, storms the Duke of Ashbury's house to collect payment for a wedding gown his jilting fiancée never paid for, and the duke, scarred at Waterloo and in need of an heir, proposes a marriage of convenience.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Austen's novel with zombies: the Bennet sisters, trained in the deadly arts in China, defend Hertfordshire from the unmentionables while Elizabeth spars with Mr Darcy.
Charlotte Löwensköld
In 1830s Värmland, the lively Charlotte Löwensköld is engaged to her cousin Karl-Artur, a fiercely pious young clergyman, and one careless remark about money sets both their lives on a different course.
The Convenient Marriage
To save her beautiful elder sister from a loveless match, seventeen-year-old Horatia Winwood, who stammers and has heavy eyebrows, offers to marry the wealthy Earl of Rule herself, and he is amused enough to accept.
Longbourn
Pride and Prejudice from below stairs: Sarah, an orphaned housemaid who scrubs the Bennets' petticoats at Longbourn, grows curious about James Smith, the quiet new footman who arrives with no references and a past he will not discuss.
Cold Comfort Farm
Flora Poste, orphaned at nineteen and practical to a fault, goes to live with her doom-laden relatives the Starkadders at their farm in Sussex, and sets about putting everyone's life in order.