Jane Austen's first novel, "Northanger Abbey"--published posthumously in 1818--tells the story of Catherine Morland and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austen's fallible heroine is repeatedly drawn into scrapes while vacationing at Bath and during her subsequent visit to Northanger Abbey, Catherine eventually triumphs, blossoming into a discerning woman who learns truths about love, life, and the heady power of literature. The satirical "Northanger Abbey" pokes fun at the gothic novel while earnestly emphasizing caution to the female sex. This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the first edition of 1818.
Two sisters of opposing temperaments but who share the pangs of tragic love provide the subjects for Sense and Sensibility. Elinor, practical and conventional, is the epitome of sense; Marianne, emotional and sentimental, the embodiment of sensibility. To each comes the sorrow of unhappy love: Elinor desires a man who is promised to another while Marianne loses her heart to a scoundrel who jilts her. Their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between the two sisters and true love finally triumphs when sense gives way to sensibility and sensibility gives way to sense. The handsome volumes in The Collectors Library present great works of world literature in a handy hardback format. Printed on high-quality paper and bound in real cloth, each complete and unabridged volume has a specially commissioned afterword, brief biography of the author and a further-reading list. This easily accessible series offers readers the perfect opportunity to discover, or rediscover, some of the world''s most endearing literary works. The volumes in The Collector''s Library are sumptuously produced, enduring editions to own, to collect and to treasure.
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
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Orgullo y Prejuicio se teje alrededor de las relaciones que se establecen entre dos grupos familiares en la Inglaterra rural: por una parte el matrimonio Bennet con sus cinco hijas -entre las que destaca especialmente Elizabeth, despierta y vivaz-, y por otra el rico Charles Bingley y sus dos hermanas, junto con su aun mas rico amigo Fitzwilliam Darcy. Marcados en un principio por los prejuicios y los malos entendidos, los vinculos sociales y sentimentales entre los mienbros de una y otra parte van madurando y matizandose a lo largo de la novela.
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 afan por la busqueda de la felicidad. Elinor, tranquila y paciente, confia en salvar con su discrecion los obstaculos que impiden su relacion con Edward Ferrars. Impetuosa y extravertida, Marianne, por el contrario, no duda en dejarse conquistar por el seductor Willoughby.
