“jane barcroft”

Small town politics are always the same comfortably dull sandbox bickering-even when your small town is the gateway to the nation's capital. Or so thought Paige Smith, editor of the Spectator weekly. His love life was in the tank, and he wasn't getting any younger, but the speed was about right for ... More

Paige Smith is back-the detective hero for people who aren't cut out to be detective heroes. For the editor of the Arlington weekly Spectator, one front-row seat for a hair-raising scoop had been enough for a lifetime, thank you. All he wanted now was safe, dull predictability, and maybe the hope of... More

Emma  is the typical rich and clever girl whose overconfidence in her own understanding of people and well-meaning desire to manipulate the lives of her social inferiors as well as some of her equals involve her in a number of  delusions. The shocks and later disappointments she receives h... More

Sense and Sensibility, the revised version of the earlier sketch, 'Elinor and Marianne', was published in 1811. It is a study in contrast as the characters of the two sisters are completely different in terms of their attitude towards life and beliefs.... More

Centering on Anne Elliot, Austen's "Persuasion" is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, and a story of missed opportunities and second chances.... More