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Jane Eyre
Historical Fiction author Lorraine Hunt Lynn and Hoi Polloi Classics bring you the classics ready for the 21st Century. Retaining the author's original words, the manuscript has been edited to be read today - and to engage even more fans of the literary greats.Life for an orphaned girl in the English Midlands in the late 17th and early 18th century was hard regardless of class. Jane Eyre is one such girl, raised by an aunt for whom cruelty is second nature, and destined to become a teacher in an austere environment. Always seeking independence and freedom, Jane falls in love with her employer - Mr. Rochester, who has a dark secret. As Jane's life is thrown into hearbreaking turmoil, near death and a series of events that threatens to deliver nothing but a hopeless future, fate again threatens. One of the greatest books of its time, Jane Eyre is Charlotte Brontë at her very best.
Verity
BOOK ONE - MELBOURNE, 1878 Verity Rainsburg is a widowed lady detective. Mindful of her impoverished childhood in an orphanage, she is shocked when Christopher Downham arrives unannounced at her office and demands rent arrears for properties she believes she owns. She and the handsome detective initially clash, but when she discovers that her late husband is alive, she finds solace in Christopher Downham's arms, and heartbreak at the realisation that they must part. This sets in motion a chain of events neither could have imagined, and hurtles them towards an inevitable, final confrontation that threatens to destroy everybody they know and love. THE FIVE VIRTUES ANTHOLOGY is the story of five orphaned girls, all former inmates of the Verwood House Orphanage in Melbourne. When another inmate is drowned, all five stand accused of murder, and they flee for their lives. Over a decade later, each girl is now a young woman, but each finds herself with yet another battle to fight, and with her survival again in jeopardy.
Wuthering Heights
Historical Fiction author Lorraine Hunt Lynn and Hoi Polloi Classics bring you the classics ready for the 21st Century. Retaining the author's original words, the manuscript has been edited to be read today - and to engage even more fans of the literary greats.Wuthering Heights is no book for those looking for a gentle read. Crammed full of the best and the worst of humanity, it tells an age-old tale of what one decent man's well-meaning act of charity does to alter the course of a family's fortunes. The reader is pushed and pulled through the decades as a family is tormented from within following the arrival of the foundling, Heathcliff. Betrayal, heartbreak, malice and revenge threaten young love, which becomes the catalyst for one of the 19th century's most intriguing, frustrating, heart-stopping and incredible tales - and has the reader hanging on until the last paragraph.
Mercy
BOOK TWO - SANDHURST, 1882 After years of working in service, Mercy Smith has finally opened her own tea-shop in the booming mining city of Sandhurst, soon to be renamed Bendigo. When one of her regular customers, Merrick Peterson, invites her to accompany him and his mother to the theatre, her evening ends in her consenting to become his wife. Only four days later, her world is shattered when Merrick Peterson's mother dies suddenly and Mercy is accused of poisoning the woman. Mercy begins a desperate fight to prove her innocence in order to avoid facing a trial and hanging in Melbourne, and help comes from a surprising source. She and those who support her then uncover the Peterson family's secret; one destined to tear the man she once loved apart, and to end their lives at the hands of a devastating bushfire.THE FIVE VIRTUES ANTHOLOGY is the story of five orphaned girls, all former inmates of the Verwood House Orphanage in Melbourne. When another inmate is drowned, all five stand accused of murder, and they flee for their lives. Over a decade later, each girl is now a young woman, but each finds herself with yet another battle to fight, and with her survival again in jeopardy.
Pride and Prejudice
Historical Fiction author Lorraine Hunt Lynn and Hoi Polloi Classics bring you the classics ready for the 21st Century. Retaining the author's original words, the manuscript has been edited to be read today - and to engage even more fans of the literary greats.Possibly one of the most read, performed and filmed literary classics of the 19th century, Pride and Prejudice remains the quintessential über-romance of the Regency Period. The story of how the Bennet family fare with five daughters and a complex inheritance that threatens their future is a snapshot of early 19th century life with all of its social strictures. Egocentric Mrs. Bennet and her somewhat resigned husband must find husbands of certain means for their daughters, all of whom are different from the other, and range from totally selfish through to intelligent and strong-minded. Enter Messers. Darcy, Wickham, Bingley and others, and the stage is set for a story that remains today a reflection of the enduring human condition.
The Horseman's Desire
THE HORSEMAN'S DESIREBOOK ONE OF THE BARTLEMAS ANTHOLOGY SERIESHis wickedness both excited and repulsed her at the same time.When a circus arrives in Ridley Taunton in the summer of 1842, Emma Turpin knows nothing of the ways of men. Within days, her mistress dies and Emma converts an inherited house into a cottage hospital. Her first patient is a circus horseman who releases in her a passion that knows no bounds and for whom she is willing to live in two worlds. As the horseman returns every summer, Emma is caught between duty and forbidden love, knowing that one day she must choose between them.THE BARTLEMAS ANTHOLOGYORDINARY PEOPLE - EXTRAORDINARY LOVE STORIESSpanning the Victorian Era fr...
Sense and Sensibility
Historical Fiction author Lorraine Hunt Lynn and Hoi Polloi Classics bring you the classics ready for the 21st century. Retaining the author's original words, the manuscript has been edited to be read today - and to engage even more fans of the literary greats.Sense and Sensibility was first written in three volumes and brought together in 1811 to become the first of Jane Austen's seriously great novels. Follow the fortunes of the Dashwood family - a widowed mother and her three daughters - as they negotiate their way through the rigours and heartbreak of Regency society to secure themselves a future. A fantastic read, and a wonderfully engaging reflection of the social and financial the middle classes faced daily in Regency England.
The Riverman's Transgression
THE RIVERMAN'S TRANSGRESSIONBOOK FOUR OF THE BARTLEMAS ANTHOLOGY SERIES"These gentlemen want to arrest ye fer the murder o' Slippery Smith, two nights ago..........."Rebecca Birchmoor travels from Adelaide to New South Wales in 1875, ready to take up her first permanent post at the Castleford Hill School. Finding herself robbed and stranded half way up the Murray River, she is rescued by a paddle steamer captain's son, and gives him her heart.As the hangman awaits her Riverman, Rebecca plans his rescue, knowing that the price she might pay for her actions could cost her everything she holds dear.THE BARTLEMAS ANTHOLOGYORDINARY PEOPLE - EXTRAORDINARY LOVE STORIESSpanning the Victorian Era fro...
Josiah's Plan
The Fry family of Dorsetshire are caught in the deadly grip of poverty in 19th century rural England. While many around them die from hunger and disease and many others are swallowed up by countless overflowing workhouses, Josiah Fry conceives a plan that will give his own family a means of escape and a fresh start in life. He decides to deliberately commit a crime punishable by transportation to Van Diemen's Land. His wife Mary is forced to return with their two year old son to her parents in nearby Wiltshire, where she must wait for at least four years to apply for free passage to join him. When her parents die and the illiterate Mary is forced into the workhouse, she has no idea if her hu...
