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Was Heathcliff — the wild child of Wuthering Heights — a 19th-century emo boy? Can you picture Jane Austen’s Lizzy Bennet as a Regency gossip girl, and Darcy as her Mr. Big in knee breeches? And what about Hester Prynne — was she Nathaniel Hawthorne’sa idea of a Colonial yummy mummy? On Aug. 25, to coordinate with New York’s Fashion Week, Penguin Classics will unveil three paperback hits from youthquakes past, updated with stylish new covers by Ruben Toledo. (If you read DailyCandy.com, you’ll

THE MISSING By Tim Gautreaux Knopf. 375 pp. $25.95 Tim Gautreaux's new novel is set right after World War I, but so much of his peripatetic story involves the adventures of an old Mississippi riverboat that it's hard not to think of Mark Twain. Indeed, there's something 19th-century about The Mi...