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WhilediningoutinLondononeevening,HerculePoirotnoticesayoungwoman,JacquelinedeBellefort,dininganddancingwithherfiancé,SimonDoyle.PoirotalsonoticesthatJackie(anicknamegiventoherandusedbyintimates;shortforJacqueline)isverymuchsmittenandisinlovewithSimon.Thenextday,JacquelinetakesSimontomeetherbestfriend,wealthyyoungheiressLinnetRidgeway,inthehopesthatLinnetwillofferSimonajob.Threemonthslater,SimonhasbrokenoffhisengagementtoJacquelineandmarriedLinnet.
BeforebecomingtheauthorofsuchclassicsasSenseandSensibility,PrideandPrejudice,andEmma,JaneAustenexperimentedwithvariouswritingstylesasateenagerintheearly1790s.Thisisacollectionofherjuvenilia,includingtheepistolarynovelsLoveandFreindship,LesleyCastle,andLadySusan,aswellashercomicHistoryofEnglandandsomeshorterpieces
AnexpeditiontoMarsdiscoverstheremainsofanadvancedcivilization,whichdiedoutmanythousandsofyearsago.Theyrecoveredbooksanddocumentsleftbehind,andarepuzzledbytheircontents.Wouldtheteamfindtheir“RosettaStone”thatwouldallowthemtounlocktheMartianlanguage,andlearnthesecretsofthislong-deadrace·
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