Jane Austen
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The Complete Novels of Jane Austen brings together the indelible characters, picturesque locations, and masterful storytelling of Jane Austen, one of the most beloved and celebrated authors of all time. This special ebook edition includes all of Austen's published works: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Love and Friendship and Other Early Works, Lady Susan, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. These novel contain some...
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"The History of England" is a 1791 novel by English author Jane Austen. Written when she was just fifteen years old (it includes her original spelling quirks), it is a humorous burlesque on the popular history books contemporarily used in school. Within it, Austen comically mimics the style of writing characteristic of these books, mocking the dubious objectivity of the historians in question. With outrageous characters and Austen's famously sharp...
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“A Birthday Card in Book Form!” Features nearly 90 witty and inspirational quotations, and a page for inscribing your personal birthday message.
Jane Austen's books have sold well over 100 million books and are never out of print. What makes her universally loved is a combination of wit, reason, sarcasm, gentility, dignity, and an early understanding that women are smarter. The poverty of her life and that of her characters, excluding the affluent...
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A charming ebook full of Jane Austen's wittiest and wisest thoughts and aphorisms.
As any schoolgirl knows, 'It is a truth universally acnowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.' (Pride and Prejudice). However, in a letter to a friend, Jane Austen issues a word of warning: 'Anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without affection'. For Jane Austen's views on marriage, the family,...
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Jane Austen: Stolz und Vorurteil Neu editierte Ausgabe 2020, mit aktualisierter Rechtschreibung Im England des ausgehenden 18. Jahrhunderts steht die junge und schöne Elizabeth Bennet vor einer Lebensentscheidung: Der Wahl des passenden Heiratskandidaten. Ihr stolzes Wesen lässt sie jedoch immer wieder zurückschrecken und zaudern. Die Partnersuche wird zur Psycho-Tortur für sie selbst und für ihre Verehrer. Austens Roman folgt oberflächlich...
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Jane Austen left an indelible mark on the world of literature. Her novels set a benchmark for her era and have entranced readers ever since. In Jane Austen on Love and Romance, Constance Moore proves how well Austen understood the human heart and why her work, filled with genuine emotion and wit, has continued to touch romantics. So, if you want to live happily ever after with a dashing man who owns half of Derbyshire, then arm yourself with this...
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"Persuasion" is the last of six books by the legendary British author Jane Austen. It was written during the years 1815-16 and published posthumously in 1818.
In the story, we meet Anne Elliot, whose family is in crisis. Anne's once-wealthy father - widowed for fourteen years - has fallen into financial ruin and the family is forced to rent their estate and move to more modest accommodations. What's more, the family that moves in to the house...
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Elisabeth Bennet tiene cuatro hermanas y una madre que solo sueña con casarlas. Cuando llegan noticias de una finca vecina, en Netherfield, propiedad del Sr. Bingley, un hombre soltero y feliz, todas las damas alrededor están conmocionadas, especialmente porque lo acompaña su amigo el Sr. Darcy, un joven y millonario aristócrata.
Todas las mentes están preocupadas de los preparativos para el próximo baile... Jane Austen pinta con una dosis...
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Young Charlotte Heywood arrives in Sanditon, a newly established seaside resort, with the Parkers: patrons and enthusiastic promoters of the town. Just as the town seeks to reinvent itself as a fashionable destination, Charlotte Heywood attempts to begin anew amongst its residents.
As she begins to settle into Sanditon society, with the Parkers and the rich...
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The Complete Novels of Jane Austen brings together the indelible characters, picturesque locations, and masterful storytelling of Jane Austen, one of the most beloved and celebrated authors of all time. This special ebook edition includes all of Austen's published works: Love and Friendship and Other Early Works, Lady Susan, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. HarperPerennial Classics...
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Presented here are three of the six novels written by the legendary British author Jane Austen, each a beloved and cherished masterpiece of Regency-era literature.
In Volume II, we present Austen's timeless classics "Sense and Sensibility," "Northanger Abbey" and "Emma." Though the books only received modest attention and few reviews at the time of their first release ("Northanger Abbey" was, in fact, published posthumously), all of these books...
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"Lesley Castle" is a novella by Jane Austen, unfinished at the time of her death. Presented as a series of letters, it follows the conversations and musings of Miss Margaret Lesley and Miss Charlotte Lutterell. As they discuss such subjects as adultery, elopement, divorce, and remarriage, it soon becomes clear that that they are shallow, trivial women, and easy targets for Jane Austen's sharp wit and social satire. Penned when she was just 14 years...
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Enjoy this Jane Austen collection combining two of Jane's most noteworthy pieces, Pride & Prejudice, and Persuasion, into one book!
Pride & Prejudice
One of Jane Austen's most beloved works, Pride and Prejudice, is vividly, brought to life by Academy Award nominee, Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl). In her bright and energetic performance of this British classic, she expertly captures Austen's signature wit and tone. Her attention to detail, her literary...
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Although the four novels published in her lifetime were well-received, much of Jane Austen's notoriety came about after her death. Her decision to publish anonymously was a standard for women in the early 19th century and furnished one of the most beloved writers in English literature little personal acclaim during her lifetime. The stories in this collection are drawn from the manuscripts of the author that are commonly referred to as her "Juvenilia"....
36) Selected Letters
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One of England's most popular novelists, Jane Austen wrote about life amid the gentry of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In her fiction, Austen analyzed and satirized her world, particularly the expectations and duties of women in an unequal society. She was also a prolific correspondent, and her intimate, gossipy letters to family and friends offer unique insights into her life and work.
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Timeless Wisdom from the 19th Century
Jane Austen's novels have delighted readers for generations with their keen observations on the human condition and contain a wealth of practical insights and humorous quips on relationships, faith, family, love, character, and virtue.
Celebrate Jane's wit and wisdom with this charming collection of quotes from the mouths of some of her most beloved characters and from her own letters.
Inside this exquisitely...
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Praised by critics and studied by scholars, Jane Austen's novels endure because of their popularity with readers. The author's witty and astute observations elevate her tales of parties, gossip, and romance into matters of captivating drama, offering an evocative portrait of everyday life in the towns and countryside of Regency England. Austen's premature death at the age of forty-two curtailed her legacy, and her devotees have eagerly read and re-read...
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Extrait: "C'est une vérité presqu'incontestable qu'un jeune homme possesseur d'une grande fortune, doit avoir besoin d'une épouse. Bien que les sentiments et les goûts d'un tel homme ne soient pas connus; aussitt qu'il vient se fixer dans une province, les familles du voisinage le regardent comme un bien qui doit dans peu appartenir à l'une ou l'autre de leurs filles."
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Extrait: "La famille des Dashwood était depuis longtemps établie dans le comté de Sussex. Leurs domaines étaient étendus, et leur résidence habituelle était à Norland-Park, au centre de leurs propriétés, o plusieurs générations avaient vécu avec honneur, aimées et respectées de leurs vassaux et de leurs voisins."