Jane Austen

Dans ce chef-d'œuvre de la littérature anglaise, Jane Austen nous plonge dans le quotidien d'Emma Woodhouse, une jeune femme intelligente et indépendante, mais aussi quelque peu arrogante. À travers ses tentatives maladroites de jouer les entremetteuses dans son cercle social, Emma explore avec finesse et humour les complexités des relations humaines, de l'amour, et des conventions sociales de l'époque. Une œuvre intemporelle, riche en...

Jane Austen's sparkling and witty novels continue to entrance readers today-as proven by the rapturous reception given the many film and TV adaptations of her work. Pride and Prejudice, Austen's most well-loved story, tells of Lizzy Bennet and her five sisters as they search for true love-a love Lizzy nearly loses because of pride. Fanny, of Mansfield Park, comes to live with her aunt and uncle in their elegant mansion. But she finds herself both...

"Auf der ganzen Welt gilt es als ausgemachte Wahrheit, dass ein begüterter Junggeselle unbedingt nach einer Frau Ausschau halten muss." Mit diesem Eröffnungssatz beginnt ein Meisterwerk der Weltliteratur, das seit über zwei Jahrhunderten Generationen von Lesern in seinen Bann zieht. Im England des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts kreuzen sich die Wege der klugen, schlagfertigen Elizabeth Bennet und des vermögenden, in sich gekehrten Mr. Darcy. Was als...

"Lady Susan" põe em cena uma bela e ardilosa aristocrata que se tornou viúva e não hesita em manipular as ­pessoas – principalmente os homens – ao seu bel-prazer. Monstro ­egoísta, joga com o destino da filha – que considera sem charme e sem inteligência –, com seus sobrinhos, e se mostra a personagem mais calculista e odiosa já criada por Jane Austen. Em nenhuma outra obra ela abordou os costumes e a moral da época de forma tão...

Viewed from an historical perspective, Jane Austen's novels should not exist. She was born during a period where female writers (if they dared to write at all) were dismissed, ignored and dissuaded from writing altogether. The fact that Ms. Austen went ahead and created the novels contained in this collection - which have gone on to become some of the most treasured books in literary history - is nothing short of a miracle. During her brief...

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...

Catherine Morland, dezessete anos, coração puro, é uma mocinha ingênua, viciada em livros repletos de desventuras horripilantes e amores trágicos. Sabendo sobre a vida apenas o que leu nos romances, ela sai de seu obscuro vilarejo natal para passar uma temporada em Bath, estação balneária frequentada pela aristocracia inglesa, onde conhece bailes excitantes, uma amiga amabilíssima, um cavalheiro encantador e outro insuportável. E sai de...

Unique Elements • About the Author • Historical Context - Timeline • A Much-Loved Literary Classic by JANE AUSTEN. "Pride and Prejudice" by BRITISH author JANE AUSTEN is a book of literary fiction first published in 1813 in the United Kingdom. Jane Austen (/ˈɒstɪn, ˈɔːs-/; 16 December 1775 - 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon...

Jane Austen (1775-1817), uma das romancistas mais importantes da literatura universal, viu os quatro romances que publicou em vida caírem na graça do público. Porém, são pouco conhecidos entre nós os primeiros trabalhos da autora, que começou a escrever ainda criança. Este volume traz três desses textos ficcionais de juventude, todos na forma de narrativas epistolares – contadas através de cartas. A novela "Amor e amizade", de 1790, mostra...

Lady Susan, or Jane Austen's epistolary romance, never received much attention from two readers in comparison with her other six major romances, mainly because it was a short work. Scholars of her work estimate that it had been, written between the years of 1793 and 1794, when a young writer found herself in her last years of adolescence, and represents a hiatus in the totality of the work of Jane Austen, because it is, characterized as a study on...