Jane Austen

An English coastal town is the setting for this unfinished novel, the inspiration for the ITV series, by the author of Pride and Prejudice.

Believed to be influenced by a town visited by Jane Austen herself, Sanditon is the story of Mr. Parker, an ambitious man intent on building a seaside resort town that will attract fashionable society; of Charlotte Heywood, a beautiful young woman who finds herself invited to Sanditon

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"Jane Austen was a prolific English writer of fiction, including six novels (of which two were published posthumously) and a novella (also published posthumously), and is considered to be one of the greatest novelists of all time, though she died in obscurity at the age of forty-one. She is buried at Winchester Cathedral. Austen's first novel, Sense and Sensibility, was not published until she was thirty-five. She also published anonymously, because...

"Persuasion by Jane Austen. What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances. A woman of no importance, she maneuvers in her restricted circumstances as her long-time love...

"Beautiful, clever, rich--and single--Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protegee, Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected. With...

Human foibles and early nineteenth-century manners are satirized in this romantic tale of English country family life as Elizabeth Bennet and her four sisters are encouraged to marry well in order to keep the Bennet estate in their family. "A lo largo de una trama que discurre con la precisión de un mecanismo de relojería, Jane Austen perfila una galería de personajes que conforman un perfecto y sutil retrato de época: las peripecias de una dama...

When a noble youth arrives unannounced to request the hand of the matchless Laura, it seems their future is one of contentment and bliss -- that is until his family learn of the marriage and, one by one, they reject the new bride. So begins the series of unspeakable events that Laura must confront and overcome, by way of the occasional fainting fit and bout of delirium. Tragedy and comedy here go hand in hand as a very foolish young heroine is placed...

Considerado um dos mais importantes romances de todos os tempos, Orgulho e Preconceito acompanha a turbulenta relação entre Elizabeth Bennet e Fitzwilliam Darcy, a qual, nascendo de uma antipatia mútua, acaba resultando em uma inesperada história de amor. Com sarcasmo mordaz e inteligência profunda, por entre peripécias, desencontros e tramas paralelas quase tão interessantes quanto a trama principal, a obra retrata o amor como produto do desenvolvimento...

Anne and Wentworth's passion is thwarted by a scheming socialite. Eight years later, when Anne is considered an old maid and her once-rich family is on the verge of bankruptcy, Wentworth returns. Will their second chance at love be ruined by the social conventions that destroyed it once? Or will the heart be persuaded by rules of its own?

Anne Elliot est la deuxième fille de Sir Walter Elliot et le membre le plus sensée de sa famille. À 19 ans, Anne est convaincue qu'il lui vaut mieux rejeter la demande en mariage du jeune homme qu'elle aime, car ce ne serait pas un mariage convenable. Huit ans plus tard, les circonstances ont changé et quand Frederick Wentworth refait apparition dans sa vie, les vieux sentiments d'Anne refont surface. Toute la tension du roman tourne autour de...