Here is the cover for the new book, which will be coming out in October. It is already available for pre-order from Amazon.com. Check back on this site for more information, coming soon.
This book will feature excerpts from some of the best (and most readable) literature in the world:
- Anne Eliot in Persuasion by Jane Austen (1818)
- Jane Eyre in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847)
- Catherine Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)
- Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote (1958)
- Antonia Shimerda in My Antonia by Willa Cather (1918)
- Edna Pontellier in The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1899)
- Amy Dorrit in Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens (1855-1857)
- Dorothea Brooke in Middlemarch by George Eliot (1872)
- Tita De La Garza in Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (1989)
- Gloria Patch in The Beautiful and the Damned by F Scott Fitzgerald (1922)
- Tess d’Urberville in Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (1891)
- Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
- Maria Chapdelaine in Maria Chapdelaine by Louis Hémon (1921)
- Janie Crawford in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
- Isabel Archer in Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (1881)
- Taylor Greer in The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver (1988)
- Rachel in Mademoiselle Fifi by Guy de Maupassant (1882 )
- Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1936)
- Sula Peace in Sula by Toni Morrison (1973)
- Roxane Coss in Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (2001)
- Indiana in Indiana: A Love Story by George Sand (1832 )
- Winnie Louie in The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan (1991)
- Anna Arkadyevna Karenina in Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1873-1877)
- Countess Ellen Mingott Olenska in The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)
- Clarissa Dalloway in The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf (1915)