Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. In this novel of manners, Lily Bart's life is changed forever when she rejects a millionaire's marriage proposal in favor of Lawrence Selden, the man she loves. After Lily is suspiciously gifted a large sum of money and Selden flees, she begins a downward spiral through New York City's social classes. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH is at once a sharp critique of New York society life and a classic tragedy.

Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. Alone in a quiet New England village stands a solitary, brooding mansion with a dark past. Within its walls dwell the dwindling and doomed Pyncheon family. Descendants of Puritans, it is rumored their home and family has been cursed by a wizard unjustly put to death by the greedy Colonel Pyncheon. Since then, their family line has been choked by misfortune, poverty, and gruesome deaths. The spinster Hepzibah, one of the last Pyncheons, struggles to make ends meet, opening a cent shop on the porch of the Pyncheon home just to survive. Her existence is solitary until both the mysterious Holgrave and sweet young relative, Phoebe, from the countryside arrive, but the struggles do not end even as a strange romance blooms. Are the Pyncheon’s misfortunes mere coincidence—or has the curse come to consume them all for the greed of those who came before them? For more classic titles like this, visit www.diversionbooks.com/ebooks/diversion-classics

Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. Thrilled by his engagement to the beautiful May Welland, Newland Archer is ready to take his place among New York City's elite society. But when May's cousin Ellen arrives, fleeing a scandal in Europe, Newland's happiness, status, and marriage are threatened. With this rich exploration of life in New York during the Gilded Age, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. Forced to reject a marriage proposal from a penniless suitor in her youth, Anne Elliot now finds herself on the brink of spinsterhood. But when her former fiancé, Frederick Wentworth, now wealthy from his career in the military, reenters society in Bath, Anne's life takes a startling turn. Austen's last completed novel, a tale of reclaimed love, is as witty as it is heartwarming.

Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. The masterpiece of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton, ETHAN FROME tells a story of domestic drama, tragedy and heartbreak. Caught between duty to his ailing wife, Zeena, and passion for her cousin, Mattie, Ethan must come to terms with his own desires. The psychology and nuances of these finely drawn characters make this Victorian novel an enduring classic.

Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. From ghost stories to spine-chilling mysteries, the horror genre is perfect reading for the Halloween season and year-round. Including Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN, Robert Louis Stevenson's THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, and Bram Stoker's DRACULA, these terrifying tales will stay with you long after they're finished.

Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. When the monstrous Mr. Hyde begins a campaign of crime and terror, the lawyer Mr. Utterson is compelled to investigate. He finds a hideously disfigured villain bent on achieving his own ends, a man with a puzzling link to the otherwise respectable Dr. Jekyll. THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE is at once a monster novel, a work of Gothic horror, and a fascinating look at human psychology.