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Emma is a social comedy in the early nineteenth century. The plot is concerned with the complications taking place before the couples are paired off correctly, and with Emma’s unwise attempts to help things along. She is perhaps a less generally appealing heroine than Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, but she is excellently done, as are her father and the rest of the Highbury Circle. Mrs. Bates and Mrs. Elton remain unsurpassed in English Satire.

The restless young wife of a mediocre country doctor commits suicide after her romantic notions of love and happiness bring only debt and despair.

A proud soldier murders his wife after being tricked by an evil lieutenant into believing she was unfaithful

In murdering an old pawnbroker, a young man commits the “perfect crime,” but is punished for his deed through torment and suffering.

A Spanish gentleman, imagining himself to be a knight, sets out on a series of adventures to rescue damsels in distress and to right the wrongs of the world.