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It's hard to believe that Jane Austen wrote the sophisticated and acerbic PRIDE AND PREJUDICE when she was only 21 years old, in 1797. Originally entitled FIRST IMPRESSIONS, the novel was rejected, revised, retitled, and finally published--anonymously--in 1813, only four years before Austen's untimely death. In PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, Austen calls on her sharp observations of vanity, venality, pomposity, and downright nuttiness in a story about a respectable but far from wealthy family full of daughters--girls who desperately need to find husbands if they are to have any kind of economic security. The eldest of the Bennett family, Elizabeth, is a bright, opinionated, and complacent young woman whose reaction to an offer of marriage from her wealthy but impossibly arrogant suitor, Fitzwilliam Darcy, is revulsion. But in the course of the story both Elizabeth and Darcy learn important lessons about their own folly and blindness, and about the dangers of superficial judgements. As the two perform their elaborate courtship dance, Austen surrounds them with some of her most uproariously clueless characters--from the wacky Mrs. Bennett to the wonderfully unctuous Mr. Collins, another of Elizabeth's admirers. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE is, of course, a highly satisfying and offbeat love story, but it is also an unparalleled examination of human nature at both its best and its hilarious worst.

Tras la muerte del señor Dashwood, su viuda y sus tres hijas, Elinor, Marianne y la pequeña Margaret, deben abandonar sus posesiones en Norland al heredar sólo el hijo mayor, fruto de un anterior matrimonio. Unos familiares las acogen en Barton Cottage, donde deberan aprender a vivir en condiciones mucho mas modestas de las que conocieron. En medio de estas circunstancias, Elinor y Marianne descuben el amor. Marianne, mas romantica, se abandona a los impulsos del corazon con sus incontenibles entusiasmos que desembocan en el desencanto y en la desesperacion. Elinor, en cambio, sigue los dictamenes de la razon y mantiene un admirable dominio de si misma al enfrentarse con sus sufrimientos amorosos.Tras la muerte del señor Dashwood, su viuda y sus tres hijas, Elinor, Marianne y la pequeña Margaret, deben abandonar sus posesiones en Norland al heredar sólo el hijo mayor, fruto de un anterior matrimonio. Unos familiares las acogen en Barton Cottage, donde deberan aprender a vivir en condiciones mucho mas modestas de las que conocieron. En medio de estas circunstancias, Elinor y Marianne descuben el amor. Marianne, mas romantica, se abandona a los impulsos del corazon con sus incontenibles entusiasmos que desembocan en el desencanto y en la desesperacion. Elinor, en cambio, sigue los dictamenes de la razon y mantiene un admirable dominio de si misma al enfrentarse con sus sufrimientos amorosos.

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This perfect indifference, and your pointed dislike, make it so delightfully absurd!' Pride and Prejudice has delighted generations of readers with its unforgettable cast of characters, carefully choreographed plot, and a hugely entertaining view of the world and its absurdities. With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr and Mrs Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out and menide down. Pride encounters prejudice, upward-mobility confronts social disdain, and quick-wittedness challenges sagacity, as misconceptions and hasty judgements lead to heartache and scandal, but eventually to true understanding, self-knowledge, and love. In this supremely satisfying story, Jane Austen balances comedy with seriousness, and witty observation with profound insight. If Elizabeth Bennet returns again and again to her letter from Mr Darcy, readers of the novel are drawn even more irresistibly by its captivating wisdom. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Persuasion narrates the emotional journey of its protagonist Anne Elliot, who chances upon Captain Wentworth, a suitor she was persuaded to reject seven years earlier, and whose reappearance causes her to reflect on her past decisions and contemplate her marital future.Vividly depicting the society holiday towns of Lyme Regis and Bath and infused with its author's trademark wit, Austen's last completed novel, set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, is an entertaining and enduring account of the dilemmas facing young women in the early nineteenth century.

In SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, Jane Austen writes about two ways of looking at the world in the personalities of two sisters, Elinor the determinedly practical and Marianne the madly romantic. Forced to live in reduced circumstances with their widowed mother and younger sister, the Dashwood 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 (1811). As SENSE AND SENSIBILITY progresses to the requisite happy ending, Elinor and Marianne and their suitors are subjected to a volley of misunderstandings, jealousies, and manipulations--and to Jane Austen's mercilessly satirical look at provincial life. As she herself stated, "Three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on"--and in doing so, Austen perfected the comedy of manners, zeroing in on her characters and their relationship to the society in which they live--an achievement that brought her closer to the later novels of the Victorian era and the 20th century than to those that preceded her.

Growing up with her cousins Tom, Edmund, Maria and Julia, she is aware that she is different from them and that her place in society cannot be taken for granted, although she is not treated unkindly. A dashing couple from London, Mary Crawford and her brother Henry, enter this stable, rural world. They succeed in dazzling everyone ant Mansfield Park, except for Fanny, who sees through their shallow veneer. Throughout the dramatic events that follow it is she who is able the bring back some stability to the ruptured lives of those around her.

Literary London map with locations of Jane Austen's Novels.A journey to the heart of early XIX Century London through Jane Austens Prose and places. Unfoldable chart of 70 x100 cm printed on high quality paper. On one side an original London mal from 1806 where 48 locations of Jane Austen's Novels are located and marqued. On the other side a meticulous selection of texts and illustrations will carry us to Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion y Lady Susan.Each novel has a diagram of the different characters that will guide us through the complex family relationships and love affairs in Austens texts, as well as illustrations of the main characters. Includes ebooks and access to London Literary digital atlas.

Es la obra maestra de Jane Austen y una de las obras maestras de la literatura inglesa de todos los tiempos.¿Por qué leer en el siglo XXI un clásico como Orgullo y prejuicio?Porque Jane Austen nos habla, a traves de la adorable Elizabeth Bennet, sobre la importancia de escuchar nuestro propio deseo. Han pasado mas de doscientos años y seguimos hablando de lo mismo.Orgullo y prejuicio es la obra maestra de Jane Austen; en ella,la ironia, unos personajes paradigmaticos y unos dialogos memorables nos introducen en una historia donde las complejidades del amor y el matrimonio constituyen la esencia de la trama.Y es en su heroina, Elizabeth Bennet, donde todos esos elementos perfectos se combinan. Pocos personajes logran hacer avanzar una novela como Elizabeth Bennet. Es ella el motor de la historia con sus palabras, errores y contradicciones. Es la fuerza que nos lleva hacia adelante en un mundo de pompas y protocolos: presentaciones forzadas, bailes ceremoniosos, respetos que no se merecen y jovenes ansiosas por conseguir un marido.Jane Austen (1775-1817), una de las mejores novelistas de la literatura britanica, es asimismo autora de obras cumbre comoSentido y sensibilidad,Mansfield Park oEmma.

"La pongo al par de Shakespeare, Cervantes y Henry Fielding."Henry James En Sentido y sensibilidad, Jane Austen explora con sutileza e ironía las opciones de la mujer en una sociedad rígida, donde el exito o el fracaso dependen de la eleccion del marido. La historia se centra en dos hermanas, Elinor y Marianne, cuyas personalidades antagonicas ejemplifican dos posibles respuestas femeninas ante la hipocresia dominante: el "sentido comun" y la "sensibilidad". Sin embargo, tanto un camino como el otro entrañan sus peligros. "Venga, entre amigos no hay secretos." Sobre la autora y su obra:"La pongo al nivel de Shakespeare, Cervantes y Henry Fielding."Henry James

From the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen's Emma that makes her beloved tale of an endearingly inept matchmaker an even more satisfying read. Here is the complete text of the novel with more than 2,200 annotations on facing pages, including: -Explanations of historical context -Citations from Austen's life, letters, and other writings -Definitions and clarifications -Literary comments and analysis -Maps of places in the novel -An introduction, bibliography, and detailed chronology of events -Nearly 200 informative illustrations Filled with fascinating information about everything from the social status of spinsters and illegitimate children to the shopping habits of fashionable ladies to English attitudes toward gypsies, David M. Shapard's Annotated Emma brings Austen's world into richer focus.