No library's complete without the classics! This new, enhanced leather-bound edition collects some of the most popular works of beloved author Jane Austen. Jane Austen's stories of clever women, elusive love, and social mores have struck a chord with millions of fans who consider her work compelling, heartwarming, and essential. Adapted time and time again for screen and stage, these enduring classics remain as enjoyable as ever, the perfect addition to every home library. This revised, elegant edition collects Austen's acclaimed novels Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Northanger Abbey. New readers will be enchanted once they open the genuine leather cover, see the specially designed end papers, and read these brilliant stories, while readers familiar with Austen's genius will enjoy the introduction from an acclaimed Austen scholar that provides background and context for the works they've always loved. Just like Jane Austen's memorable characters, readers will fall in love--with this remarkable keepsake!
Step into the world of Georgian England and learn more about the genteel life of the beloved author of such classics as Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Emma. Illustrations. 5 5/16 x 7 5/8.
Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists.
Whether you approach the collection on a one-a-day model or in a satisfying binge read, you will emerge wiser about Austen, if not about life.
The fourth edition of Jane Austen's Letters incorporates the findings of new scholarship to enrich our understanding of Austen and give us the fullest view yet of her life and family.
When Charlotte Lucas sets about luring Mr Collins into a marriage proposal, we are told 'Charlotte's kindness extended further . . . Such was Miss Lucas's scheme' (I. xxii). The first statement seems to take us sympathetically into the ...
Recounts the life of the English novelist, and reveals how her works both reflected her times and differed from the world she experienced.
Jane composed a satirical letter to Mrs Hunter who lived in Norwich , though of course it was never intended for the post . It ran : Jane Austen's tears have flowed over each sweet sketch in such a way as would have done Mrs Hunter's ...
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notes that she mocks how intra-textual readers respond to Scott and Byron in her novels, not as instances of disdain for the writer but satirically toward the readers and, toward the poets, encomia (Jane Austen and Romantic Poets 7).