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"Me!" cried Fanny..."Indeed you must excuse me. I could not act any thing if you were to give me the world. No, indeed, I cannot act."' At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park. There she accepts her lowly status, and gradually falls in love with her cousin Edmund. When the dazzling and sophisticated Henry and Mary Crawford arrive, Fanny watches as her cousins become embroiled in rivalry and sexual jealousy. As the company starts to rehearse ...

Contents:Lady SusanSense and SensibilityPride and PrejudiceMansfield ParkEmmaPersuasionNorthanger AbbeyJuvenilia – Volume IJuvenilia – Volume IIJuvenilia – Volume III

Emma is the story of the eponymous Miss Woodhouse who, having lost her close companion Anne Taylor to marriage, sets out on an ill-fated career of match-making in the town of Highbury. Taking as her subject the pretty but dreary Harriet Smith, she manages to cause misunderstandings with every new tactic she employs. Though precious and spoilt, Emma is charming to all around her and so it takes her some time to learn her lesson and profit from spending less time worrying about how other people should live their lives. The handsome volumes in The Collectors Library present great works of world literature in a handy hardback format. Printed on high-quality paper and bound in real cloth, each complete and unabridged volume has a specially commissioned afterword, brief biography of the author and a further-reading list. This easily accessible series offers readers the perfect opportunity to discover, or rediscover, some of the world''s most endearing literary works. The volumes in The Collector''s Library are sumptuously produced, enduring editions to own, to collect and to treasure.

Famed 18th and 19th century English novelist, Jane Austen, wrote many novels in her lifetime. "Northanger Abbey" was one of the first novels she finished, and while she sold the manuscript in 1803, the novel was not published (posthumously) until 1817. "Northanger Abbey" is similar to many of Jane Austens novels. It involves a lot of relatively wealthy families socialising with each other, usually at balls and other genteel parties. The protagonist of "Northanger Abbey" is a seventeen-year-old young woman, Catherine Morland, who is obsessed with Gothic novels. When the novel begins, she is visiting Bath with a pair of family friends. While in Bath, she meets two different families: the Thorpe family and the Tilney family..."Nothanger Abbey" is the story of this young woman and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austens fallible heroine is repeatedly drawn into scrapes while vacationing at Bath and during her subsequent visit to Northanger Abbey, Catherine eventually triumphs, blossoming into a discerning woman who learns truths about love, life, and the heady power of literature. The satirical novel pokes fun at the Gothic novel while earnestly emphasising caution to the female sex.

Jane Austen was an English novelist best known for her novels criticising the social institutions of her time, such as marriage and wealth."Persuasion", one of her masterpieces, was published posthumously in 1817. Unlike her novel "Northanger Abbey", with which it was published, "Persuasion" is a work of Austens maturity. Like her best works, "Mansfield Park" and "Emma", it contains subdued satire and develops the comedy of character and manners."Persuasion" tells the story of a second chance, the reawakening of love between Anne Elliot and Captain Frederick Wentworth, whom eight years earlier she had been persuaded not to marry. Wentworth returns from the Napoleonic Wars with prize money and the social acceptability of naval rank. He is now an eligible suitor, acceptable to Annes snobbish father and his circle, and Anne discovers the continuing strength of her love for him.

"Mansfield Park" is a novel by Jane Austen published in three volumes in 1814. In its tone and discussion of religion and religious duty, it is the most serious of Austens novels.While "Mansfield Park" appears in some ways to continue where "Pride and Prejudice" left off, it is a much darker work, which challenges the very values (of tradition, stability, retirement and faithfulness) it appears to endorse. Adopted into the household of her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, Fanny Price grows up a meek outsider among her cousins in the unaccustomed elegance of Mansfield Park. Soon after Sir Thomas absents himself on estate business in Antigua (the familys investment in slavery and sugar is considered in the Introduction in a new, post-colonial light), Mary Crawford and her brother Henry arrive at Mansfield, bringing with them London glamour, and the seductive taste for flirtation and theatre that precipitates a crisis.

Em Orgulho e Preconceito, Jane Austen nos apresenta os Bennets: uma família nobre, porém sem dinheiro, composta pelo pai, pela mãe e por cinco moças, todas em idade de se casar e nenhuma com direito

Em "Razão e sentimento", Jane Austen apresenta-nos os costumes das famílias inglesas do século XVIII. Suas personagens Elinor, Marianne e a jovem Margaret — as irmãs Dashwood —, após a morte do pai,

Emma se rige a través de la sutileza y el ingenio. Jane Austen construyó un portento de novela que fluye casi intemporalmente. No existe prisa ni arrebato en esta obra por la que manan los ardores humanos de una manera a veces casi aterradora y otras candida. Emma Woodhouse es una muchacha tipica de la burguesia perteneciente a la zona rural de la Inglaterra decimononica: caprichosa, mimada, muy inteligente y, acaso, manipuladora. Sus relaciones con los demas se convierten en un teatro personal, y sus reuniones son una suerte de campo de batalla.

''It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.'' So begins "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" - Austen''s classic fiendishly mashed-up with scenes of zombie mayhem. This graphic novel adaptation of the "New York Times" bestseller and major pop culture phenomenon, featuring original art, will bring this sensational tale to a whole new audience.

La première rencontre d''Elizabeth Bennet avec M. Darcy se passe on ne peut plus mal : elle le juge hautain et désagréable, il la trouve provinciale... Pourtant le destin s''acharne à réunir les deux

From the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen´s Persuasion that makes the beloved novel an even more satisfying and fulfilling read...

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."In this popular novel of English literature we meet the five sisters - Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia Bennet - when their lives are turned upside down by a wealthy young man (Mr. Bingley) and his best friend (Mr. Darcy), who arrive in their neighborhood and cause conflicts, uproar, misunterstandings and a huge arrage of pride and prejudices.

Pride and Prejudice follows the turbulent relationship between Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a country gentleman, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rich aristocratic landowner. They must overcome the titular sins of pride and prejudice in order to fall in love and marry. Pride and Prejudice was originally titled First Impressions.The famous first sentence of Pride and Prejudice is: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.This book is a reprint of the famous Peacock Edition with illustrations by Hugh Thomson.

This edition of Jane Austens letters was edited by Fanny Knights son Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen (the first Baron Brabourne, lived 1829-1893), and was published in 1884. The Letters of Jane Austen (1884) publishes these letters for the first time, and sets them in a family context drawn from the reminiscences of those who knew Austen personally. This first of two volumes begins with a biographical essay and then includes letters from 1796 to 1807.This is a wonderful book and gift for any Jane Austen admirer!Its a wonderful and enchanting read and in a beautiful layout with some illustrations and printed on cream paper. Enjoy Jane Austens letters to her sister Cassandra and dive into the Regency England and see it with Janes eyes ...

Emma Woodhouse es una ingenua joven que ha nacido en el seno de una de las mejores familias de Highbury. Por todo el pueblo se comenta que es una de las jóvenes con los mejores dones otorgados por su educacion y su posicion. Amada por su bondadoso padre, su querida amiga Harriet, y el correctisimo señor Knightley, Emma no ha tenido ninguna complicacion que aturda su alma; sin embargo, es precisamente a causa de su ingenuidad, justo despues de la boda de la señora Taylor, su amada institutriz, que se tendra que enfrentar a ciertos problemas que ella misma ha provocado.