Books in Cover-To-Cover Novels series

Fleeing a disastrous marriage, Helen Huntingdon retreats to the desolate mansion, Wildfell Hall, with her son, Arthur. There, she makes her living as a painter. Finding it difficult to avoid her neighbors, she is soon an object of speculation and gossip. Brontë portrays Helen's eloquent struggle for independence at a time when society defined a married woman as her husband's property.

Eighth-grader Derrick wants to be a stand-up comedian, but his football coach, his parents, Joe, his boss at Taste of Italy, his English teacher Dowling the Dragon, and his Mr. Perfect older brother Craig don't think he's so funny. When Derrick discovers he needs a B on an English paper to stay eligible for football, how can he tame his smart mouth to stay out of trouble?

Jane Eyre, one of the most widely read English novels, has extraordinary emotional and narrative power. It introduces a new type of hero and heroine with an unconventional love story. Jane, a penniless orphan who survives the miseries of a charitable school, is employed at Thornfield Hall as a governess to Mr. Rochester's ward, Adèle. Rochester is fascinated by Jane Eyre's sharp wit and independence, and they fall in love. But overwhelming obstacles stand in the way of their marriage.

Abandoned at birth by a mother who faces transportation to Virginia, the young Moll Flanders sets out to make her way in the world. Threatened with a life in service, our rebellious heroine sets her heart on a life of independence. One fatal seduction and five husbands later, she resorts to a life of self-supporting crime. On her downward path from the relative respectability of London's underworld, Newgate Prison, and eventual deportation, Moll Flanders gives her frank opinion of temptation, flattery, fortune-hunters, and innocence corrupted in the world of men.

This masterpiece of love, rejection, and reconciliation is the story of Maggie Tulliver and her resourceful but insensitive brother Tom, as they grow up in the narrowly puritanical atmosphere of rural Victorian society. Too intelligent and imaginative for a woman of her times, Maggie's rebellious nature, and the thoughtlessness of the man she comes to love causes her to be ostracized by society and by the brother she loves so intensely.

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times " The opening words of Charles Dickens' great French Revolution romance set the scene for a heart-stopping historical adventure that dashes back and forth between London and Paris during the nightmare of Terror. Dr. Manette is imprisoned at the Bastille, and his daughter Lucie must choose between two suitors, one French, one English. Martin Jarvis delivers a wonderful narration of this classic story.