Mahdi Lak Lak itibaren Janowo, Polonya
I wish I had to read this book in school instead of Sense and Sensibilty or Pride and Prejudice. Or atleast have read it after on of those novels. The heroine is put into foster care at birth by her convict mother and is raised and taken care of by an upper midddle class family as a charity case. This is where the similarity ends between those books and this one. Instead of worrying about how to marry into a decent family and have such and such an annual income and get a better position in society, she ends up mistress to one of the sons and proposed to by the other. And it continues like this throughout the whole book. Although she does give a constant accounting of her income and she often is in dire straits, she continually reinvents herself and bounces right back.