Donada Peters

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY has more twists to its plot than should be allowed, and is far too complex for reconstruction here. Suffice it to say that in Elinor and Marianne Dashwood we are presented with contrasting qualities of character, the one practical and conventional, the other emotional and sentimental. The outcome turns on these young women mastering their primary characteristics and finding true happiness when in the one sense gives way to sensibility,...

In Frances Hodgson Burnett's first children's novel, Little Lord Fauntleroy Cedric Errol, the orphaned son of a sea captain and his mother are surprised to learn that by a strange twist of fate, he is the heir to a large English estate. Going to live with his stern and miserly grandfather, Cedric impresses the old man with his innocence and good nature. Will Cedric have a positive influence on his aristocratic and ill-tempered grandfather? A description...

Unlike quite a number of people, Agatha had not given up on Christmas. To have the perfect Christmas had been a childhood dream whilst surviving a rough upbringing in a Birmingham slum. Holly berries glistened, snow fell gently outside, and inside, all was Dickensian jollity. And in her dreams, James Lacey kissed her under the mistletoe, and, like a middle-aged sleeping beauty, she would awake to passion once more....

Agatha Raisin is...