9780385340175 | Delacorte Pr, May 30, 2006, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Whenever her life hits a crisis, Dora escapes into a carefully selected stack of books, shutting herself away from the outside world until she emerges from her book binge capable of facing her problems.

9780385340182, titled "Literacy and Longing in LA" | Reprint edition (Delta, May 29, 2007), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Whenever her life hits a crisis--romantic upheaval, divorce, a career stalling--Dora escapes into a carefully selected stack of books, shutting herself away from the outside world until she emerges from her book binge capable of facing her problems.

9780151011063 | Houghton Mifflin, October 31, 2004, cover price $33.00 | About this edition: Receiving the two-hundred-year-old memoir of a Korean crown princess from an anonymous sender, Oxford student Barbara Halliwell reads about the princess's life and finds profound changes occurring within her present-day London home.

9780156032704, titled "The Red Queen: A Transcultural Tragicomedy" | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, October 3, 2005), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Receiving the two-hundred-year-old memoir of a Korean crown princess from an anonymous sender, Oxford student Barbara Halliwell reads about the princess's tragic experiences of motherhood and childlessness in the eighteenth-century Korean court, visits the sites of the princess's life, and finds profound changes occurring within her present-day London home.

9781558853102 | Arte Publico Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $12.95

9780800847432 | Taplinger Pub Co, May 1, 1985, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Correspondence with an imaginary niece discusses why it is important to read Jane Austen and what an aspiring novelist can learn from her

9780786706884, titled "Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen" | 2 edition (Basic Books, November 9, 1999), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: When her niece complains that Jane Austen is tedious and has little relevance, the author offers a defence of literature and reading

9780521589284 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 7, 1998, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms.

9780881845990 | Reprint edition (Carroll & Graf Pub, July 1, 1990), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: When her niece complains that Jane Austen is tedious and has little relevance, the author offers a defence of literature and reading