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Two families on the Yorkshire moors are consumed by a love so fierce it outlasts death, sanity, and two generations.
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Jamaica Inn
An orphaned young woman travels to a desolate Cornish inn where her aunt's husband runs something far worse than a tavern.
Jane Eyre
A plain governess falls in love with her employer, only to discover his mansion hides a secret that makes their marriage impossible.
Rebecca
A shy young woman marries the wealthy widower Maxim de Winter and moves to his estate, Manderley, where the memory of his first wife, Rebecca, and the housekeeper devoted to her, still rule.
The Treasure
In the sixteenth century, mercenaries murder Herr Arne and his household for his silver; the only survivor, a girl named Elsalill, meets a charming Scottish officer in a frozen harbour town.
The Return of the Native
A Paris diamond merchant returns to Egdon Heath to become a schoolteacher, and his marriage to a restless woman who longs to escape the heath ends in tragedy.
Here on Earth
March Murray comes back to her Massachusetts hometown after many years in California, for the funeral of the woman who raised her, and finds Hollis, the boy she loved as a girl, still there.
L'Arrabbiata
On the coast near Sorrento, Laurella, a proud young woman who has sworn never to marry, is rowed across to Capri by Antonino, a boatman who has loved her from afar.
The Thirteenth Tale
A reclusive English novelist who has lied to every interviewer of her career summons a young bookseller to her Yorkshire house to, at last, tell her the truth.
Fall on Your Knees
On Cape Breton Island at the turn of the twentieth century, James Piper, a piano tuner, elopes with Materia, the young daughter of a Lebanese merchant, and they raise four daughters, the eldest of them, Kathleen, a gifted singer.
Jude the Obscure
Jude Fawley, a stonemason who dreams of studying at Christminster, is thwarted by class, by marriage and by his love for his free-thinking cousin Sue, in Hardy's bleakest novel.
The Secret Garden
Mary Lennox, a spoiled, sickly orphan sent from India to her uncle's gloomy house on the Yorkshire moors, discovers a locked, neglected garden, and with a local boy and her hidden invalid cousin, brings it and herself back to life.
Beauty and Sadness
Oki, a Tokyo novelist, travels to Kyoto to hear the New Year's bells and to see Otoko, the painter he seduced when she was sixteen, who now lives with a beautiful, jealous young protégée.