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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.

Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 novel of manners written by Jane Austen. Though it is mostly called a romantic novel, it is also a satire. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness.

Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and romantic misunderstandings. It is set in the fictional country village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls and Donwell Abbey, and involves the relationships among people from a small number of families. The novel was first published in December 1815, with its title page listing a publication date of 1816. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in GeorgianRegency England.

Las hermanas Dashwood y su madre acaban de abandonar su mansión tras la muerte del señor Dashwood, cuya herencia va a parar a su hijo. Antes de partir, la mayor de las hermanas, Elinor, se enamora del comedido y torpe Edward Ferrars, pero la hermana de este y cuñada de Elinor no permitira esa union. A diferencia de Elinor, amable y contenida, su hermana Marianne es pura pasion, por lo que su amor por Willoughby es un absoluto flechazo que no va a ocultar.

Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1811. It was published anonymously; By A Lady appears on the title page where the authors name might have been. It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor (age 19) and Marianne (age 16) as they come of age. They have an older half-brother, John, and a younger sister, Margaret (age 13).

Fanny Price estaba destinada a una existencia humilde, pero su vida da un giro cuando los Bertram se hacen cargo de su educación. Fanny pasa su infancia en la lujosa mansión de Mansfield Park junto a sus primos: Tom, el mayor, muy aficionado a los placeres de la mala vida; Maria y Julia, que no pierden ocasion de recordar a Fanny su verdadero estatus o de burlarse de que no viste a la moda, y Edmund, el ºnico que se muestra afectuoso con ella. Fanny siempre sera muy consciente de cual es su lugar pero ¿que ocurre cuando los deseos se contradicen con las obligaciones?

Sense and Sensibility | Pride and Prejudice | Mansfield Park | Emma | Northanger Abbey | Persuasion | Love and FreindshipFew novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. Through her vivacious and spirited heroines and their circle, she paints vivid portraits of English middle-class life as the eighteenth century came to a close. Each of the novels is a love story and a story about marriage - marriage for love, for financial security, for social status. But they are not mere romances; ironic, comic and wise, they are masterly studies of the society Jane Austen observed. The seven books in this box set contain some of the most brilliant, dazzling prose in the English language.

Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are two sisters with opposite characters. Elinor, the eldest, is 19 and represents the part of "reason" indicated by the title. Marianne is 17 years old and instead represents the "feeling". Elinor and Marianne are the daughters of Mr. Dashwoods second marriage. Besides them there is also a younger sister, Margaret, and their older brother, John, who was born from his first marriage. When the father dies, the family estate passes, as usual, to the first son, John, so the Dashwood women find themselves in a very precarious financial situation.

MANSFIELD PARK, considerado o mais ambicioso romance de Jane Austen, foi escrito entre os anos de 1811 e 1813 e publicado anonimamente, como todas as demais obras da autora, em 1814. É provavelmente o menos romantico e o mais pragmatico dos romances de Austen, como seu abrupto e bastante prosaico fim demostra. Foi o primeiro dos romances da autora totalmente concebido e escrito em Chawton - sua ultima morada, onde viveu ate sua morte em 1817 - e caracteriza-se por apresentar um aspecto muito diferente dos demais romances predecessores. Para alguns leitores, MANSFIELD PARK e o romance mais gratificante e mais substancial ja escrito por Austen, enquanto que outros o veem com certa reserva, devido a sagacidade e humor presentes em seus 48 capitulos. MANSFIELD PARK e um romance que enfoca as maneiras com que as pessoas tentam lidar uns com os outros. Mansfield Park deve ser lido sem preconceitos ou suposiçes, que na verdade e um dos temas principais do livro. Quase todos, em Mansfield Park, passam ao longo de toda a trama fazendo suposiçes erradas sobre outras pessoas. Ninguem parece realmente entender uns aos outros e poucos so aqueles que sequer fazem um esforço para tentar entender os demais. Nesse sentido, so tipicos personagens criados por Austen: reais, inclassificaveis, dificeis, contraditorios e confusos. Antagonistas agem mais como herois, heroinas so, por vezes, antipaticas, e viles, de repente, se transformam em protagonistas. Assim, escandalos surgem em MANSFIELD PARK em todos os niveis: o pecado; as tentaçes para o pecado; as obstruçes interpessoais; as impropriedades que chocam, excitam e produzem fofocas dentro da esfera em que vivem os personagens; a desgraça e a queda publicas; a vitimizaço e a acusaço profetica; a expulso e o sacrificio empreendidos pelo mau gosto da midia.

Lady Susan by Jane Austen Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871. This early complete work, which the author never submitted for publication, describes the schemes of the title character.Lady Susan Vernon, a beautiful and charming recent widow, visits her brother-in-law (late husbands brother) and sister-in-law, Charles and Catherine Vernon, with little advance notice at Churchill, their country residence.Catherine is far from pleased, as Lady Susan had tried to prevent her marriage to Charles and her unwanted guest has been described to her as "the most accomplished coquette in England". Among Lady Susans conquests is the married Mr. Manwaring.Catherines brother Reginald arrives a week later, and despite Catherines strong warnings about Lady Susans character, soon falls under her spell. Lady Susan toys with the younger mans affections for her own amusement and later because she perceives it makes her sister-in-law uneasy.Her confidante, Mrs. Johnson, to whom she writes frequently, recommends she marry the very eligible Reginald, but Lady Susan considers him to be greatly inferior to Manwaring.

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen is the third published novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1814 by Thomas Egerton. A second edition was published in 1816 by John Murray, still within Austens lifetime. The novel did not receive any public reviews until 1821.The novel tells the story of Fanny Price, starting when her overburdened family sends her at the age of ten to live in the household of her wealthy aunt and uncle and following her development into early adulthood.From early on critical interpretation has been diverse, differing particularly over the character of the heroine, Austens views about theatrical performance and the centrality or otherwise of ordination and religion, and on the question of slavery. Some of these problems have been highlighted in the several later adaptations of the story for stage and screen.Fanny Price, at the age of ten, is sent from her impoverished home in Portsmouth to live with the family at Mansfield Park, the Northamptonshire country estate of Sir Thomas Bertram. Lady Bertram is her aunt. The Bertrams have four children Tom, Edmund, Maria and Julia who are all older than Fanny. There she is mistreated by all but Edmund. Her other aunt, Mrs Norris, the wife of the clergyman at the Mansfield parsonage, makes herself particularly unpleasant to Fanny.When Fanny is fifteen, Aunt Norris is widowed and the frequency of her visits to Mansfield Park increases, as does her mistreatment of Fanny. A year later, Sir Thomas leaves to deal with problems on his plantation in Antigua, taking his spendthrift eldest son Tom. Mrs Norris, looking for a husband for Maria, finds Mr Rushworth, who is rich but weak-willed and considered stupid. Maria accepts his proposal for his money.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is an 1813 novel of manners written by Jane Austen. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness.Mr. Bennet, owner of the Longbourn estate in Hertfordshire, has five daughters, but his property is entailed and can only be passed to a male heir. His wife also lacks an inheritance, so his family faces becoming poor upon his death. Thus, it is imperative that at least one of the girls marry well to support the others, which is a motivation that drives the plot.Pride and Prejudice has consistently appeared near the top of lists of "most-loved books" among literary scholars and the reading public. It has become one of the most popular novels in English literature, with over 20 million copies sold, and has inspired many derivatives in modern literature.For more than a century, dramatic adaptations, reprints, unofficial sequels, films, and TV versions of Pride and Prejudice have portrayed the memorable characters and themes of the novel, reaching mass audiences.

Emma by Jane Austen is a novel about youthful hubris and romantic misunderstandings, written by Jane Austen. It is set in the fictional country village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls and Donwell Abbey, and involves the relationships among people from a small number of families.The novel was first published in December 1815, with its title page listing a publication date of 1816. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in GeorgianRegency England. Emma is a comedy of manners, and depicts issues of marriage, sex, age, and social status.Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like." In the first sentence, she introduces the title character as "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and a happy disposition... had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her."Emma is spoiled, headstrong, and self-satisfied; she greatly overestimates her own matchmaking abilities; she is blind to the dangers of meddling in other peoples lives; and her imagination and perceptions often lead her astray.Emma, written after Austens move to Chawton, was her last novel to be published during her lifetime, while Persuasion, the last complete novel Austen wrote, was published posthumously.

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen Northanger Abbey (/?n??r??r/) is a coming-of-age novel and a satire of Gothic novels written by Jane Austen. Austen was also influenced by Charlotte Lennoxs The Female Quixote (1752). Northanger Abbey was completed in 1803, the first of Austens novels completed in full, but was published posthumously in 1817 with Persuasion.The story concerns Catherine Morland, the naive young protagonist, and her journey to a better understanding of herself and of the world around her. How Catherine views the world has been distorted by her fondness for Gothic novels and an active imagination.Seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland is one of ten children of a country clergyman. Although a tomboy in her childhood, by the age of 17 she is "in training for a heroine" and is fond of reading Gothic novels, "provided they were all story and no reflection".Catherine is invited by the Allens (her wealthier neighbours in Fullerton) to accompany them to visit the city of Bath and partake in the winter season of balls, theatre and other social delights. Soon she is introduced to a clever young gentleman, Henry Tilney, with whom she dances and converses.Through Mrs. Allens old schoolfriend Mrs. Thorpe, she meets her daughter Isabella, who introduces Catherine to Ann Radcliffes Mysteries of Udolpho, and the two quickly become friends. Mrs. Thorpes son, John, is also a friend of Catherines older brother, James, at Oxford where they are both students.

Razão e Sensibilidade conta a história das irmãs Dashwood, Elinor e Marianne, que, na Inglaterra dos últimos anos do século XVIII, ficam desamparadas com a morte do pai, cujas propriedades são deixad

O romance retrata a relação entre Elizabeth Bennet (Lizzy) e Fitzwilliam Darcy na Inglaterra rural do século XVIII. Lizzy possui outras quatro irmãs, nenhuma delas casadas, o que Sra. Bennet, mãe de