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.
Begun in 1811 at the height of Jane Austen's writing powers and published in 1814, Mansfield Park marks a conscious break from the tone of her first three novels, Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice, the last of which Austen came to see as "rather too light." Fanny Price is unlike any of Austen's previous heroines, a girl from a poor family brought up in a splendid country house and possessed of a vast reserve of moral fortitude and imperturbability. She is very different from Elizabeth Bennet, but is the product of the same inspired imagination.
First published in 1816, Jane Austen's EMMA is about an unconventional heroine--and one whom Austen thought no one but herself would like. Emma Woodhouse is bright, beautiful, and rich; she is also snobbish and judgmental, and she can be cruel, with a tendency to interfere in other people's lives. The novel chronicles Emma's attempts to make a match between a hapless vicar who is, in fact, enamored of Emma herself, and her friend Harriet, a poor and simple young woman in love with a farmer. Unlike many of Austen's heroines, Emma is possessed of very little good sense; her absurd machinations complicate the lives of everyone involved--and, needless to say, get nowhere. Emma, however, learns from her mistakes and gains some badly needed insight into herself as she discovers her feelings for the older, steady, aristocratic Mr. Knightley. The novel moves toward a not unexpected but perfectly satisfying conclusion, and in the process introduces Austen's usual cast of amusing, pretentious, hypocritical, and/or dim-witted characters, including the appalling, nouveau riche Mrs. Elton, and Emma's widowed father, one of the most insufferable (and delightful) neurotics in literature.
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