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Berlin, 1939. Edith Falkenstein once lived a fairy-tale life. Falling in love with Julius introduced her to a world she had only dreamed of. She wore the finest silk dresses to host parties in their historic mansion home. But those days are a distant memory. Under Nazi rule, her Jewish husband, Julius, has been stripped of everything. Now the couple share a cramped apartment with other destitute families, and the priceless jewels that once adorned Edith’s neck have been sold to buy food on the black market.

"On the Choice of a Wife" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic. Wife-choosing is an unending business. This sounds immoral, but what I mean will be clearer in the context. People have lived-innumerable people-exhausted experience, and yet other people keep on coming to hand, none the wiser, none the better.

Now the five titles in the Arranged Marriage series are together in one volume! A series of novels, most of them set in the 1980s and one in the Victorian period, with an arranged marriage theme. Where beautiful naive girls and beautiful strong guys, ironically, need to get married first to discover that they love each other later! In addition, you will now know how the couple Liv and Andrews were, ten years later (A Christmas Carol) The Tycoon's Chosen, young and sweet Liv, is chosen by tycoon Andrews Lausen from a girls' boarding school to become his wife. Liv was perfect for his plans: ...

George Wickham: Meryton’s man of mystery. Every girl in, or near, Meryton is out of her senses about him for the first two months of his arrival. Who is he and what has he been doing since he left Pemberley with his three thousand pounds? When he walks into a room, George Wickham is the happy man towards whom almost every female eye is turned, and, for a while, Elizabeth Bennet is delighted to be singled out as the object of his attention. Disappointingly for those anticipative ladies, George Wickham has had a complicated past; a past which prevents him from marrying any of them as he has...

Then: Twenty years ago, Alys’ husband, Sam, was in a terrible car accident that left him fighting for his life. His recovery was slow and painful, and just at the point when Alys began to hope, he sent her away, refusing to see her ever again for reasons she could never understand. Now: Married again and living in a new town with a new family, Alys feels like she’s sleepwalking through life. She’s just lost her job, her grown-up daughter is flying the nest, and her new husband doesn’t see - or even seem to care about - the downward spiral she is in.

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