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Satírica, antirromántica, profunda y mordaz a un tiempo, la obra de Jane Austen nace de la observación de la vida doméstica y de un profundo conocimiento de la condición humana. Orgullo y prejuicio ha fascinado a generaciones de lectores por sus inolvidables personajes y su desopilante retrato de una sociedad, la Inglaterra victoriana y rural, tan contradictoria como absurda.

Ebook con un sumario dinámico y detallado: Sense and Sensibility, título original en inglés, también conocida como Sensatez y sentimientos, Juicio y sentimiento, Juicio y sensibilidad o Sentido y sensibilidad, es una novela de la escritora britanica Jane Austen publicada en 1811. Fue la primera de las novelas de Austen en ser publicadas, bajo el seudonimo de "A Lady" (una dama). Ha sido adaptada para el cine y la television numerosas veces, destacando la version de Ang Lee en 1995.

CONTENIDO:- Lady Susan- Sentido y Sensibilidad- Orgullo y Prejuicio- Mansfield Park- Emma- Persuasión- La Abadía de Northanger- Los Watson- El Castillo de Lesley- Obras Juveniles

Mansfield Park es una de las novelas de Jane Austen. Fue escrita entre 1812 y 1814 en Chawton y fue publicada en mayo de 1814 por Egerton, el mismo editor que en el caso de sus dos predecesoras. Despues de la segunda edicion, pasa a manos de John Murray, el cual publicara despues tambien Emma. Mansfield Park es quiza el texto mas sombrio y perturbador de Austen.El personaje principal, Fanny Price, es una joven de una familia relativamente pobre, criada por sus tios ricos, Sir Thomas y Lady Bertram (hermana de su madre), en la mansion de Mansfield Park. Fanny crece con sus cuatro primos (Tom, Edmund, Maria y Julia), pero siempre la consideran como inferior a ellos; solo Edmund se muestra verdaderamente bondadoso con ella. El es tambien el mas virtuoso de los hermanos, pues Maria y Julia son vanidosas y consentidas mientras que Tom es un jugador de apuestas irresponsable. Con el tiempo, la gratitud de Fanny hacia la bondad de Edmund se convierte en un amor secreto..

The story of the Bennet family and of Mrs Bennet's efforts to marry off her five daughters.

Pride And Prejudice, the story of Mrs. Bennets attempts to marry off her five daughters is one of the best-loved and most enduring classics in English literature. Excitement fizzes through the Bennet household at Longbourn in Hertfordshire when young, eligible Mr. Charles Bingley rents the fine house nearby. He may have sisters, but he also has male friends, and one of thesethe haughty, and even wealthier, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcyirks the vivacious Elizabeth Bennet, the second of the Bennet girls. She annoys him. Which is how we know they must one day marry. The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and Darcy is a splendid rendition of civilized sparring. As the characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, Jane Austens radiantly caustic wit and keen observation sparkle.

In its marvelously perceptive portrayal of two young women in love, Sense and Sensibility is the answer to those critics and readers who believe that Jane Austens novels, despite their perfection of form and tone, lack strong feeling. Its two heroinesso utterly unlike each otherboth undergo the most violent passions when they are separated from the men they love. What differentiates them, and gives this extroardinary book its complexity and brilliance, is the way each expresses her suffering: Marianneyoung, impetuous, ardentfalls into paroxysms of grief when she is rejected by the dashing John Willoughby; while her sister, Elinorwiser, more sensible, more self-controlledmasks her despair when it appears that Edward Ferrars is to marry the mean-spirited and cunning Lucy Steele. All, of course, ends happilybut not until Elinors sense and Mariannes sensibility have equally worked to reveal the profound emotional life that runs beneath the surface of Austens immaculate and irresistible art.

Cuando la joven Emma –hija soltera del rico y distinguido señor Woodhouse– pierde la compañía de su antigua institutriz, toma bajo su tutela a la humilde Harriet Smith. Su extracción humilde y su sim

Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love - and its threatened loss - the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.

Contents:Juvenilia Volume IJuvenilia Volume IIJuvenilia Volume III

Contents:Juvenilia Volume IJuvenilia Volume IIJuvenilia Volume III

At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortunenor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austens last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, Persuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all,it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.

Drôle et romanesque, le chef d'oeuvre de Jane Austen reste tout simplement incontournable.Jane Austen, une femme de raison et de sentiments. (Re) Découvrez le Jane Austen Power dans cette édition spé

Portraying social life in fashionable Bath and centred around Catherine Morland, this novel ridicules the popular tales of romance and terror and contrasts with these the normal realities of life.

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

Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners among her characters.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." 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.This novel has been adapted for several films, many television programs, and a long list of stage plays.

Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, and was her first published work when it appeared in 1811 under the pseudonym "A Lady". A work of romantic fiction, better known as a comedy of manners, Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England, London and Kent between 1792 and 1797,[1] and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a meagre cottage on a distant relatives property, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak.

This epistolary novel, an early complete work that the author never submitted for publication, describes the schemes of the main characterthe widowed Lady Susanas she seeks a new husband for herself and one for her daughter. Although the theme, together with the focus on character study and moral issues, is close to Austens published work (Sense and Sensibility was also originally written in the epistolary form), its outlook is very different, and the heroine has few parallels in 19th-century literature. Lady Susan is a selfish, unscrupulous and scheming woman, highly attractive to men, who tries to trap the best possible husband while maintaining a relationship with a married man. She subverts all the standards of the romantic novel: she has an active role, she is not only beautiful but intelligent and witty, and her suitors are significantly younger than she is (in contrast with Sense and Sensibility and Emma, which feature marriages by their female protagonists to men who are 16 years older). Although the ending includes a traditional reward for morality, Lady Susan herself is treated more leniently than the adulteress in Mansfield Park, who is severely punished.