The Mill on the Floss

Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up together and hold each other steady through poverty, illness and first love. Alcott wrote the friendship between sisters as the real plot, and the complete two part novel is here.

Louisa May Alcott

Anne Shirley arrives at Green Gables by mistake and finds in Diana Barry the bosom friend she had only imagined. A warm portrait of how a friendship can make a place become home.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne returns to teach in her own village, and the friendship with Diana has to survive growing up. The sequel that shows what happens to a childhood bond once adult life gets in the way.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Behind the romance sits the friendship between Elizabeth Bennet and Charlotte Lucas, and the sisterly loyalty that ties Elizabeth to Jane. Austen uses those bonds to test every judgment her heroine makes.

Jane Austen

Emma Woodhouse decides to manage the life of her friend Harriet Smith, and the damage teaches her what friendship actually costs. Austen at her sharpest on the difference between company and care.

Jane Austen