Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin’s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him.
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The story of Philip Carey, an orphan with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as would-be artist, Philip settles in London to train as a doctor. In London, Philip meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a disastrous relationship that will change his life forever.
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Archibald "Archie" Moffam has recently married Lucille Brewster and gets into no end of trouble when he tries to impress her art-collecting, hotel-owning millionaire father Daniel Brewster.
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Embittered by a false accusation, disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a long twilight life alone with his loom. . . and his gold. Silas hoards a treasure that kills his spirit until fate steals it from him and replaces it with a golden-haired founding child. Where she came from, who her parents were, and who really stole the gold are the secrets that permeate this moving tale of guilt and innocence. A moral allegory of the redemptive power of love, it is also a finely drawn picture of early nineteenth-century England in the days when spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses, and of a simple way of life that was soon to disappear.
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Poor Fanny Price leaves home at an early age to live at Mansfield Park with her rich uncle and aunt. All of her cousins treat her as inferior to them except for Edmund who shows her real kindness.
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