Jane Austen
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Selbst Liebhaber ihrer sechs Romane wissen häufig nicht, dass Jane Austen schon zwischen ihrem elften und siebzehnten Lebensjahr eine ganze Reihe kürzerer fiktionaler Texte schrieb. Diese blieben lange im Besitz der Familie, die es nicht für angebracht hielt, "diesen Werdegang der Öffentlichkeit zu enthüllen". Janes Jugendwerke wurden deshalb zum allergrößten Teil erst im 20. Jahrhundert zugänglich. Es sind Texte von überbordender Phantasie,...
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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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“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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Ein Roman aus dem ländlichen England des 18. Jahrhunderts über die beiden Schwestern Elinor und Marianne, die bis zum Traualtar einen dornenreichen Weg zurücklegen müssen. Sie sind charakterisiert durch "sense" und "sensibility"? durch Verstand und Gefühl. Jane Austen verwickelt sie in eine turbulente Geschichte mit bittersüßem Ende.
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"Emma" is the fourth book by celebrated British author Jane Austen and the final book to be published during her lifetime.
The story concerns Emma Woodhouse, a precocious young lady who fancies herself a matchmaker and thus intrudes upon the love lives of her friends and relations to find them suitable mates. When she attempts to cement the romance between her cousin Harriet (a girl of modest means) and a wealthy suitor, Emma is admonished...
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"Pride and Prejudice" has become one of the most popular novels in English literature, and receives considerable attention from literary scholars. Though the story's setting is characteristically turn-of-the-19th-century, it retains a fascination for modern readers. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century...
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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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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...
29) 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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Three classics about love, class, and social expectations by one of the greatest English authors of the nineteenth century.
This collection of Jane Austen's novels includes three timeless classics.
Persuasion: A woman is pressured by her family to end her engagement to a man of modest means-then meets him again years later, when both of their circumstances have changed.
Northanger Abbey: A young woman besotted by gothic novels sees danger lurking...
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The Complete Works of Jane Austen includes all six novels, and Austen's shorter works; Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sandition, and her complete Juvenilia. Jane Austen is famous for her six novels, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. Her works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism, biting...
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Emma Woodhouse, Anfang Zwanzig, führt den Haushalt ihres gesundheitlich angeschlagenen Vaters. Etwas zu selbstbewusst und altklug hat sie für das Leben anderer immer ein passendes Rezept parat. Das führt zu Missverständnissen und Liebeskummer. Doch Emma hat genug Humor, um über sich selbst zu lachen. Nicht zuletzt deshalb lösen sich die Verwirrungen und Verwicklungen und alles findet eine gutes Ende.
33) The Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma and Northanger Abbey
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Collins Classics brings you a selection of the best-loved novels by Jane Austen, including 'Pride and Prejudice' which, in 2013, celebrates the 200th anniversary of its publication. Complete with a Life & Times section, which offers insight into the author, her works and the time of publication, and a handy glossary adapted from the Collins English Dictionary, this Collins Classics Collection will enhance your reading experience of Jane Austen's novels.
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34) Lady Susan
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Novela epistolar en la que la trama se va develando a raíz del intercambio de cartas entre los diferentes personajes.
La historia gira alrededor de lady Susan Vernon, una hermosa e inteligente mujer, pero también manipuladora y experta en hacer que los hombres caigan rendidos a sus pies. Viuda, con una hija de dieciséis años y huyendo de cierto escándalo se refugia en casa de su cuñado, Charles Vernon. Su único objetivo es encontrar un candidato...
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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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It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is eminently, delightfully, and delectably quotable. This truth goes far beyond the first line of Pride and Prejudice, which has muscled out many other excellent sentences. So many gems of wit and wisdom from her novels deserve to be better known, from Northanger Abbey on its lovable, naive heroine-"if adventures will not befal a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad"-to Persuasion's...
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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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"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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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...