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Emma Woodhouse is a beautiful and lovely lady who seems to be immune to love. However, her charm will make us love her as she becomes "more warm-hearted".

Orgullo y prejuicio, es la obra que consagró a Jane Austen como la novelista del prerromanticismo inglés. Charles Bingley, joven soltero y rico, despierta las ambiciones de las familias del vecindario, que ven en él a un buen partido para sus hijas. Tras muchas peripecias, Bingley se casa con la mayor de las hermanas Bennet, familia de posición más bien modesta, y lo mismo hacen dos de sus mejores amigos, igualmente ricos, que contraen matrimonio con otras dos hermanas más jóvenes. Jane Austen retrata, con una ironía muy matizada, la psicología de la burguesía inglesa que se mueve entre hipócritas orgullos de clase y prejuicios sociales.

Sentido y sensibilidad fue la primera novela en publicarse de las siete que debemos al genio de Jane Austen. Son sus protagonistas las jóvenes hermanas Dashwood, quienes, desde caracteres contrapuestos, comparten el mismo afán por la búsqueda de la felicidad. Elinor, tranquila y paciente, confía en salvar con su discreción los obstáculos que impiden su relación con Edward Ferrars. Impetuosa y extravertida, Marianne, por el contrario, no duda en dejarse conquistar por el seductor Willoughby.

Emma Woodhouse believes she is right in all things, in particular who should marry whom. Absorbed in arranging the life and loves of her friends, Emma fails to realize that she herself is falling in love, a failure which surprises and delights both her and the reader.

La obra de Jane Austen ha vencido sin dificultades el paso del tiempo y se ha mantenido en todo momento en un lugar de privilegio en los gustos de lectores y especialistas. Orgullo y prejuicio es una novela de amor o, mejor, una novela de enamorados. Bingley y Jane, Darcy y Elisabeth, Lydia y Wickham luchan para obtener el objeto de su pasión, deben participar en el juego que la sociedad en que viven les propone y deben ganarlo. Sin saltarse las reglas, pero con un tesón capaz de vencer cualquier barrera, llegarán a toda costa a ese matrimonio que para ellos habrá de marcar el inicio de la felicidad soñada.

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.

A story of love and marriage. Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth meet again after many years. They are in love but are they going to marry? Witty, amusing and clever - this tale of love in eighteenth-

Emma Woodhouse believes she is right in all things, in particular who should marry whom. Absorbed in arranging the life and loves of her friends, Emma fails to realize that she herself is falling in love, a failure which surprises and delights both her and the reader.

Longman Schools Division (a Pearson Education company), 2000. Book & Tape. Book Condition: New. Emma Woodhouse is clever, beautiful and rich, and loves matchmaking between her friends and neighbours in the village of Highbury. Unfortunately, she seems to create more heartache than happiness, and never thinks about her own chances of love.;Penguin Readers is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders.;Penguin Readers are graded at seven levels of difficulty, from Easystarts with a 200-word vocabulary, to Level 6 (Advanced) with a 3000-word vocabulary. In addition, titles fall into one of three sub-categories: Contemporary, Classics or Originals. At the end of each book there is a section of enjoyable exercises focusing on vocabulary building, comprehension, discussion and writing.;Some titles in the series are available with an accompanying audio cassette, or in a book and cassette pack. Additionally, selected titles have free accompanying Penguin Readers Factsheets which provide stimulating exercise material for students, as well as suggestions for teachers on how to exploit the Readers in class.

Jane Austen (Anglaterra, 1775-1817) fou el setè infant d'un rector de poble i va començar a escriure de molt jove. Les seves novel.les, que funcionen amb la perfecció d'un mecanisme de rellotgeria, f

Emma Woodhouse is beautiful, clever and rich. She loves "matchmaking" - arranging marriages between her friends and neighbours in the village of Highbury. However, she often creates more heartache than happiness - and what about her own chance of love ...? Jane Austen (1775-1817) is still one of the world's favourite authors and her delightful stories have been enjoyed by generations of readers. Emma was made into a film in 1997 starring Gwyneth Paltrow.