Catherine Morland meets all the trappings of Gothic horror and imagines the worst. Disaster does eventually strike, as it does in the real world as distinct from the romantic one, but without spoiling the wonderful atmosphere of this story.
Emma Woodhouse is the lovely, lively, willful, and fallible heroine of Jane Austens fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she understands the feelings of others as little as she does her own heart. As Emma puzzles and blunders her way through the mysteries of her social world, Austen evokes for her readers a cast of unforgettable characters and a detailed portrait of a small town undergoing historical transition. Written with matchless wit and irony, judged by many to be her finest novel, Emma has been adapted many times for film and television. This new edition contains lively notes and an introduction that shows how Austen brilliantly turns the mundane into the exceptional.
Última novela de la autora, publicada póstumamente en 1818, Persuasión narra la historia de una mujer en su madurez, una mujer sensible, paciente y menospreciada, que, años después de haber rechazado, persuadida por un mal consejo, al hombre que amaba, ve cómo este reaparece en su vida, rico y honorable pero aún despechado. Una mujer, en suma, que quizá por primera vez en la historia de la novela debe luchar para que el amor le conceda una segunda oportunidad. Como telón de fondo, un logrado retablo familiar y una maravillosa recreación de época.
The "Bookworms Library" is a new edition of the "Oxford Bookworms Black and Green" series. Each title offers activities before, while and after reading, helping st
This edition of Jane Austen's 19th-century novel presents the 1816 text along with contemporary critical essays that introduce students to "Emma" from gender, new historical, Marxist, cultural, and f
Orgullo y prejuicio ha fascinado a generaciones de lectores por sus inolvidables personajes y su retrato de una sociedad, la Inglaterra victoriana y rural, tan contradictoria como absurda. Satírica, antirromantica, profunda y mordaz a un tiempo, la obra de Jane Austen nace de la observacion de la vida domestica y de un profundo conocimiento de la condicion humana.
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