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Lo scenario è la lussureggiante campagna inglese. Siamo a cavallo fra due secoli, Settecento e Ottocento. Tre sorelle perdono il padre, venendo a trovarsi in ristrettezze economiche a causa dell'avidità della cognata. Le reazioni a catena generate dall'improvvisa povertà influenzeranno profondamente le loro vite, anche negli aspetti sentimentali più privati. Jane Austen costruisce attorno a due delle sorelle una corrente emozionale potentissima, utilizzando la prima, Elinor, come incarnazione della "ragione" e l'altra, Marianne, del "sentimento". La tensione fra queste due forze, egualmente potenti, consente a Jane Austen di intessere una storia indimenticabile, amatissima dai lettori e dalle lettrici sin dalla prima pubblicazione di due secoli fa, nel 1811. Introduzione di Sara Poledrelli.

Orgullo y prejuicio, de Jane Austen, autora de otras obras de la narrativa extranjera como Sentido y sensibilidad o Persuasión, es una novela satírica, antirromántica, profunda y mordaz a un tiempo, que nace de la observacion de la vida domestica y de un profundo conocimiento de la condicion humana. Orgullo y prejuicio ha fascinado a generaciones de lectores por sus inolvidables personajes y su desopilante retrato de una sociedad, la Inglaterra victoriana y rural, tan contradictoria como absurda.La aparicion en Longbourn, un pueblo de la campiña inglesa, de Charles Bingley, joven, soltero y rico, despierta las ambiciones de las familias del vecindario, que lo consideran un excelente partido para sus hijas. El y su amigo Fitzwilliam Darcy, tambien adinerado, tendran que luchar contra las intrigas con las que se tratara de poner trabas al amor que sienten por dos de las hermanas Bennet, pobres y modes tas, antes de alcanzar un final feliz.

La vida de la joven Catherine Morland –miembro de la numerosa familia de un modesto clérigo rural–­ discurre apaciblemente en la campiña inglesa, donde se entrega con pasión a su distracción favorita

Edición conmemorativa del Segundo Centenario de la publicación de la obra, con las ilustraciones que realizó Hugh Thomson en 1894. La aparición en Longbourn, un pueblo de la campiña inglesa, de Charles Bingley, joven, soltero y rico, despierta las ambiciones de las familias del vecindario, que lo consideran un excelente partido para sus hijas. Él y su amigo Fitzwilliam Darcy, también adinerado, tendrán que luchar contra las intrigas con las que se tratará de poner trabas al amor que sienten por dos de las hermanas Bennet, pobres y modes tas, antes de alcanzar un final feliz. Traducción de José Luis López Muñoz

In a publishing career that spanned less than a decade, Jane Austen used the romantic endeavours of her well-plotted characters as a stage from which to address issues of gender politics and class-consciousness rarely expressed in her day. The novels included in this beautiful leatherbound collection, "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield Park", "Emma", "Northanger Abbey", "Persuasion" and "Lady Susan", represent all of Austen's mature work as a novelist and provide the reader with an introduction to the world she and her memorable characters inhabited. "Jane Austen: Seven Novels" is part of "Barnes & Noble"'s series of quality leatherbound volumes. Each title in the series presents a classic work in an attractively designed edition bound in genuine bonded leather.

Published in 1814, this nuanced examination of the social hierarchy of Jane Austens day contains more than enough wit, charm, and human drama to enchant readers of any era Published in 1814, this nuanced examination of the social hierarchy of Jane Austens day contains more than enough wit, charm, and human drama to enchant readers of any era Born into a poor family, Fanny Price is raised amid the daunting splendor of Mansfield Park by her rich uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram. Treated as an inferior by most of the family, Fanny forms a close attachment to her cousin Edmund, the only person to show her kindness. With the departure of her uncle to the West Indies and the arrival from London of the fashionable Henry and Mary Crawford, flirtation and romantic intrigue abound. As Fanny becomes increasingly uncomfortable with the conduct of her companions, she finds herself isolated and forced to face the conflict between her sense of integrity and social expectation. This edition includes pictures and an extensive section about the author's life and works.

Penguin Classics completes the set of Austen´s novels in this beautiful clothbound series, with covers by award-winning Penguin designer Coralie Bickford-Smith.

These inventive and entertaining pieces display the genesis of the wit and imagination of Jane Austens mature fiction, and are by turns amusing, acerbic, and occasionally downright silly. The stories Love and Friendship and Lesley Castle provide parodies of the gentry and the fashionable idea of sensibility of the time, while A History of England is a lively chronicle of English monarchic history. Also included in this collection are The Three Sisters, Catharine, and the series of vignettes known as A Collection of Letters.

Acclaimed illustrator and bestselling author Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler´s Wife, Her Fearful Symmetry, Night Bookmobile) teams up with author Cathleen Schine (The Love Letter, The Three Weissmanns of Westport) to pay tribute to Jane Austen´s beloved first novel in this graphic-cover deluxe edition commemorating the book´s 200th anniversary...

Published posthumously, this early work is a satire on the Gothic mode typified by the novels of Ann Radcliffe, as well as a witty comedy of manners in the style of Jane Austens later novels and, ultimately, an enchanting love story Published posthumously, this early work is a satire on the Gothic mode typified by the novels of Ann Radcliffe, as well as a witty comedy of manners in the style of Jane Austens later novels and, ultimately, an enchanting love story While enjoying a six weeks stay in fashionable Bath, the young and callow Catherine Morland is introduced to the delights of high society. Thanks to a new literary diet of the sensational and the macabre, Catherine travels to Northanger Abbey fully expecting to become embroiled in a Gothic adventure of intrigue and suspense and, once there, soon begins to form the most gruesome and improbable theories about the exploits of its occupants. This edition includes pictures and an extensive section about the author's life and works.

When Anne Elliot chances upon Captain Wentworth, a suitor she was persuaded to reject seven years earlier, she begins to reflect upon her past decisions and contemplate her marital future. Vividly depicting the society holiday towns of Lyme Regis and Bath and infused with its authors trademark wit, this is an entertaining and enduring account of the dilemmas facing young women. Thoroughly annotated, this edition also includes a review of Jane Austens life and works, complete with anecdotes and critical perspectives.

Portraying social life in fashionable Bath and centred around Catherine Morland, this novel ridicules the popular tales of romance and terror and contrasts with these the normal realities of life.