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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.

Este libro analiza la evolución del arte icónico desde sus inicios en Bizancio hasta la época del Imperio ruso. Los iconos son un elemento fundamental en la historia del arte, por lo que es crucial comprender como comenzo esta forma de expresion y como se desarrollo a lo largo de los siglos. Los iconos son analizados por uno de los expertos de renombre mundial en iconografia cristiana primitiva, ofreciendo un valioso punto de referencia para los especialistas, asi como para los estudiantes.

This version includes a detailed introductory annotation on how the book and the plot were created."Persuasion" represents the ripest development of Jane Austens powers, that latest phase of her thoughts and feelings. It is a novel which, while not wanting in the several excellences of those which preceded it, has a mellower tone and a more finished grace of style than any of the others. It was written at a time when bodily strength had given place to weakness; and although her mind was more active than ever, her physical condition insensibly influenced her thought, giving this latest of her books that deeper note of feeling, that finer touch of sympathy and tenderness, which make "Persuasion" the greatest of all her works. - Oscar Fay Adams.It was Miss Austens last story, and has more depth of feeling and pathos than most of hers. . . . The delicate miniature painting of the characters in these tales is apt not to be appreciated by the young and the tone of county society of that day disgusts them; but as they grow older they perceive how much ability and insight is displayed in the work, and esteem the forbearance, sweetness, and self-restraint of such a heroine as Anne.- Charlotte M. Yonge.

This version includes a detailed introductory annotation on how the book and the plot were created.Her style deserves the highest commendation. It has all the form and finish of the eighteenth century, without being in the least degree stilted or unnatural. It has all the tone of good society without being in the least degree insipid. For a specimen of crisp, rich English, combining all the vigour of the masculine with all the delicacy of the feminine style, we suggest the opening chapter of "Northanger Abbey" as a model for any young lady writer of the present age. - T. E. Kebbel.

One of Austen''s five major novels in a revised and updated edition.The standard Chapman/Kinsley text in a newly set typeface gives a more attractive appearance.The new notes are fuller and provide more generous contextualization of social habits and Austen''s language.New chronology and bibliography provide up-to-date resources for further reading.New appendices on social rank and dancing.Retains Margaret Doody''s still critically applauded introduction.

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.

UNO DE LOS GRANDES CLÇSICOS DE LA LITERATURA, EN UNA NUEVA EDICIÓN ADAPTADA CON ILUSTRACIONES DE MARTA GARCÍA NAVARRO. Mr. Darcy es el hombre más arrogante, insufrible y maleducado que ha existido jamas. O, al menos, esa es la opinion de la joven y perspicaz Lizzy Bennet. Pero, para su desgracia, la mala suerte quiere que las vidas de ambos no dejen de cruzarse. ¿Conseguira Lizzy superar sus prejuicios y ver a Darcy como algo mas que un enemigo? Entre malentendidos, familiares entrometidos y algun que otro escandalo, el camino hacia el amor de los dos jovenes no podria ser mas accidentado.

En palabras de un crítico contemporáneo, "Jane Austen impulsó la novela del siglo XVIII por el camino que conduce a Henry James y a Proust".

L'éducation sentimentale des soeurs Dashwood promet d'être rude dans le petit monde étriqué de la bourgeoisie du Devonshire. Publié en 1811, Raison et Sentiments est le premier grand roman anglais du