Jane Austen

The ultimate companion for the Jane Austen fan filled with her penetrating insights and humor on life, love, and death. Jane Austen is one of the most popular female writers in history, best known for her stories of love, loss, and hope, which are cleverly intertwined with her witty insights into the traits and expectations of English Georgian society. Here, in this stunning little book, you will be able to read hundreds of individual quotes from...

This collection contains Jane Austen's six best-loved titles: Emma, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park.

Após a repentina morte do marido, a sra. Dashwood se vê sozinha com três jovens filhas, Elinor, Marianne e Margaret. Em meio a este turbilhão, Elinor e Marianne, as irmãs mais velhas, estão às voltas com aquilo que poderia lhes assegurar um futuro melhor: um bom casamento. Elinor, sensatamente, estima e gosta de um homem que só cresce aos seus olhos quando descobre por que ele não pode se casar com ela. Já Marianne, seguindo seu coração,...

"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...

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...

"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen is a literary masterpiece that unfolds with the grace and wit characteristic of the author's keen observational skills and biting social commentary. Set against the backdrop of Regency-era England, the novel is a timeless exploration of love, class, and the complexities of human relationships. At the heart of the narrative is the headstrong and intelligent Elizabeth Bennet, one of five daughters in the Bennet...

Como una ventana indiscreta, las cartas de Jane Austen a su hermana Cassandra proporcionan una mirada fascinante sobre la vida de la autora. Relaciones amorosas, ocasiones mundanas, visitas a vecinos, salidas al teatro: minúsculos detalles cotidianos que nos desvelan la faceta más íntima del mundo de Austen y nos ayudan a reconstruir la persona-lidad de una de las autoras más impor-tantes de la historia de la literatura. En esta original selección...

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...

Unique Elements • About the Author • Historical Context • A BELOVED Literary Classic by JANE AUSTEN. "Sense and Sensibility" by BRITISH author JANE AUSTEN is a book of literary fiction first published in 1811 in the United Kingdom. A romantic coming-of-age novel filled with scenes of family life amongst the British landed gentry of early 19th century England. Sneak Peak 'Mrs. John Dashwood now installed herself mistress...

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...