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Part of a series of Jane Austen's works, with introductions by Austen scholars, together with 12 pages of colour introducing the characters, locations and times of Jane Austen.

Jane Austen's beloved novel concerns two sisters, Elinor the practical and Marianne the romantic, who are forced to leave their home with their mother and younger sister and live in reduced circumstances in the West of England. The girls must rely on marrying well if they are to survive in the world, and the way in which this goal is eventually accomplished provides the plot of this delightful novel, the first of Jane Austen's to be published.

The most perfect of Jane Austens perfect novels begins with twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse comfortably dominating the social order in the village of Highbury, convinced that she has both the understanding and the right to manage other peoples livesfor their own good, of course. Her well-meant interfering centers on the aloof Jane Fairfax, the dangerously attractive Frank Churchill, the foolish if appealing Harriet Smith, and the ambitious young vicar Mr. Eltonand ends with her complacency shattered, her mind awakened to some of lifes more intractable dilemmas, and her happiness assured. Austens comic imagination was so deft and beautifully fluent that she could use it to probe the deepest human ironies while setting before us a dazzling gallery of characterssome pretentious or ridiculous, some admirable and moving, all utterly true.

Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love - and its threatened loss - the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.

Of all Jane Austens great and delightful novels, Persuasion is widely regarded as the most moving. It is the story of a second chance. Anne Elliot, daughter of the snobbish Sir Walter Elliot, is woman of quiet charm and deep feelings. When she was nineteen she fell in love withand was engaged toa naval officer, the fearless and headstrong Captain Wentworth. But the young man had no fortune, and Anne allowed herself to be persuaded to give him up. Now, eight years later, Wentworth has returned to the neighborhood, a rich man and still unwed. Annes never-diminished love is muffled by her pride, and he seems cold and unforgiving. What happens as the two are thrown together in the social world of Bathand as an eager new suitor appears for Anneis touchingly and wittily told in a masterpiece that is also one of the most entrancing novels in the English language.

In its marvelously perceptive portrayal of two young women in love, Sense and Sensibility is the answer to those critics and readers who believe that Jane Austens novels, despite their perfection of form and tone, lack strong feeling. Its two heroinesso utterly unlike each otherboth undergo the most violent passions when they are separated from the men they love. What differentiates them, and gives this extroardinary book its complexity and brilliance, is the way each expresses her suffering: Marianneyoung, impetuous, ardentfalls into paroxysms of grief when she is rejected by the dashing John Willoughby; while her sister, Elinorwiser, more sensible, more self-controlledmasks her despair when it appears that Edward Ferrars is to marry the mean-spirited and cunning Lucy Steele. All, of course, ends happilybut not until Elinors sense and Mariannes sensibility have equally worked to reveal the profound emotional life that runs beneath the surface of Austens immaculate and irresistible art.

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 jeunes gens et, de quiproquos en malentendus, leurs préjugés laissent place à un amour passionné... Magnifique reconstitution de l'Angleterre rurale du XVIIIe siècle, le film de Joe Wright étonne par la modernité de son propos. Keira Knightley prête son charme et sa vivacité à Elizabeth, tandis que Matthew MacFayden incarne un Darcy irrésistible de morgue

This complete and unabridged edition contains a biography of the author and a new introduction and afterword. Anne falls in love with Wentworth, who had nothing but himself to recommend him, and no hopes of attaining influence, so persuaded by friends and family she breaks off the match and sends him away. Years later, he returns, is it too late? This complete and unabridged edition contains a biography of the author and a new introduction and afterword. Anne falls in love with Wentworth, who had nothing but himself to recommend him, and no hopes of attaining influence, so persuaded by friends and family she breaks off the match and sends him away. Years later, he returns, is it too late?

Grandes Clásicos Literatura Random House rescata esta obra maestra de la narrativa del siglo XIX y una de las novelas más importantes de Jane Austen, en una cuidada edición.«Jane Austen es una maest

Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, their two daughters and two sons, are the fortunate residents of Mansfield Park, and they bring Fanny Price, the timid and delicate niece of Lady Bertram to share in their good fortune as a member of the family. Brought up away from her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny soon becomes an indispensable part of the household. It is her earnest and quiet character which insists on holding fast to what is good during Sir Thomas's absence abroad. A family theatrical production loosens the social conventions which normally govern the household and dangerous alliances threaten the stability of the family. Fanny's steadfastness is her reward - but not before enduring a good deal of misery… Frances Barber reads Jane Austen's classic novel, complete and unabridged.

'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.

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The Classic Regency Romance--Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen's beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton-and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she's soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers-and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead. Complete with 20 illustrations in the style of C. E. Brock (the original illustrator of Pride and Prejudice), this insanely funny expanded edition will introduce Jane Austen's classic novel to new legions of fans.

Una joven, ávida lectora de novelas, acabará interpretando un personaje totalmente novelesco que se moverá entre intrigas y terribles secretos. Es una novela de la primera época de su autora. En principio concebida como una sátira de la novela gótica, va sin embargo más allá de este propósito y ofrece una pintura social rica y mordaz y una trama ingeniosísima con sorpresas inesperadas.

«Orgullo y prejuicio» está considerada como una de las mejores novelas escritas en inglés y su autora como una de las grandes escritoras en lengua inglesa. Novela entretenida, de suspense, con un argumento construido de forma perfecta, un diálogo irónico y ágil, a menudo brillante, ataca los vicios sociales más clásicos —el egoísmo, la arrogancia, la avaricia, la hipocresía, el esnobismo, etc.— y mantiene al lector inteligente con una continua sonrisa irónica.

Publicada originalmente en 1813, Orgullo y prejuicio es una de las obras maestras de la literatura inglesa de todos los tiempos. Traducción de Ana Mª RodríguezIntroducción de Tony Tanner A lo largo de una trama que discurre con gran ritmo y precision, Jane Austen reune una galeria de personajes caracteristicos de toda una epoca: la dama empeñada en casar a sus hijas con el mejor partido de la region, las hermanas que se debaten con sus vaivenes sentimentales, el clerigo adulador que peca de oportunista... El estudio de caracteres y el analisis de las relaciones humanas basadas en la costumbre, elementos esenciales de la narrativa de la autora, alcanzan en Orgullo y prejuicio cotas de maestria insuperable. La presente edicion incluye una detallada cronologia de la autora. Asimismo, recupera la introduccion original en Penguin Clasicos de Tony Tanner, que desarrollo su carrera como catedratico de literatura inglesa y norteamericana en la Universidad de Cambridge, y cuyas agudas reflexiones sobre Jane Austen son la mejor guia para adentrarse en el universo literario de esta autora. "Mi locura no ha sido el amor sino la vanidad."

Fanny Price es una niña todavía cuando sus tíos la acogen en su mansión de Mansfield Park, rescatándola de una vida de estrecheces y de necesidades. Allí, ante su mirada amedrentada, desfilará un mundo de ocio y de refinamiento en el que las inocentes diversiones alimentarán maquinaciones y estrategias de seducción. Ese mundo oculta una verdad peligrosa y sólo Fanny, desde su sumiso silencio, será capaz de atisbar sus consecuencias y amenazas. Mansfield Park recrea un orden familiar y social que se deshace y restaura engañosamente a través de los ojos ambiguos de una jovencita a quien se ha asignado la suerte y el destino de una Cenicienta. Publicada en 1814, Mansfield Park es, probablemente, la novela más densa y compleja de la autora, todo un prodígio de arquitectura narrativa y de profundidad psicológica.

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.