Jane Austen's classic tale of love overcoming preconceptions centers on the two eldest daughters of the Bennet family: Jane and Elizabeth. Elizabeth has to fend off an unwelcome offer of marriage from the Rev. Collins, while mistakenly falling for the charms of the dashing Mr. Wickham, before realizing that appearances are deceptive and that her prejudice against Mr. Darcy has blinded her to his real character.

Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza, her distinguished husband, and a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years.

This Applause edtiion allows the reader and student to look beyond the scholarly reading text to the more sensuous, more collaborative, more malleable performance text which emerges in conjunction with the commentary and notes. Readers and students are faced with real theatrical choices in each speech as the editors point out the challenges and opportunities to the actor and director at each juncture. Readers will not only discover an enlivened Shakespeare,...

Gwendoline, Lady Muir, has seen her share of tragedy, especially since a freak accident took her husband much too soon. Content in a quiet life with friends and family, the young widow has no desire to marry again. But when Hugo, Lord Trentham, scoops her up in his arms after a fall, she feels a sensation that both shocks and emboldens her. Hugo never intends to kiss Lady Muir, and frankly, he judges her to be a spoiled, frivolous, if beautiful, aristocrat....

1951. Despite struggling with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, Maggie Esh is sweet-spirited. When her Dat remarries, less than a year after Maggie's mother died, her stepmother-- though kind-- simply doesn't understand Maggie or her illness. An unsettling family situation occurs, and hope begins to seem elusive. Maggie attends some tent revival meetings out of curiosity, but the words of the evangelist begin to stir something deep inside her. Dare she...

One of Helen Mayberry's true passions in life is to find a mystical treasure she calls King Edward's lamp until she meets the renown womanizer, Lord Beecham, a resolute bachelor who enjoys Helen's pursuit of him.

Abrianna Cunningham has always viewed her longtime friend, Wade Ackerman, as a protective brother. Lately, however, she's begun to see him differently and finds herself attracted romantically to him. But she's confused and overwhelmed by these unfamiliar feelings. Wade, on the other hand, has loved Abrianna for some time and has been waiting for her to realize they are more than just friends. When he asks her to marry him, she asks for time to adjust...

The year is 1413. Margaretha hopes her newest suitor, Lord Claybrook, will be her one true love, but when an injured man is brought to Hagenheim Castle claiming to be an English lord who was attacked by Claybrook, Margaretha is drawn into a plot, not knowing who is telling the truth.

Jane Austen's classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in nineteenth century England is faced with a new challenge: an army of undead zombies.

Audun, a dragon from the Icy North, encounters obstacles as he pursues the love of his life--a human girl who can transform into a dragon using magic.