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Centrada en la figura de la humilde y discreta Fanny Price, esta novela, una de las más deliciosas de Jane Austen, cuenta las muchas vicisitudes en que se ve envuelta desde que a la edad de diez años va a vivir a Mansfield Park, nombre que recibe la casa de los Bertram, sus tíos ricos. Las distintas relaciones que establece con sus primos y con los diversos personajes que van apareciendo por la casa y complicando la trama, así como su evolución, con sus idas y venidas, sus avances y retrocesos, amores, rivalidades, tomas de conciencia y cambios de actitud, van desarrollando un relato ameno, romántico y entretenido que culmina en un final feliz. Traducción de Miguel Ángel Pérez Pérez

To celebrate the bicentenary of the publication of "Pride and Prejudice", the Collector's Library will publish its lavishly illustrated edition in colour in January. Jane Austen's best-loved novel is a memorable story about the inaccuracy of first impressions, about the power of reason, and above all about the strange dynamics of human relationships and emotions. Here, where Hugh Thomson's delightful period illustrations were originally black-and-white, they have been sensitively coloured by Barbara Frith, one of Britain's most accomplished colourists. Hugh Thomson (1860-1920) was the finest exponent of period illustration in what is sometimes known as the 'powder and patch' school.

Se trata de una edición comentada, anotada e ilustrada, que incluye índices biográficos (referido a las personas aludidas en las cartas), índices topográficos, índices de las obras a las que se hace referencia en las cartas, cronologia de eventos, etc... Asimismo tambien incluye comentarios previos a las cartas que nos ayudan a situarlas en el contexto adecuado para ser perfectamente entendidas. Las Cartas de Jane Austen suponen una lectura deliciosa y revelan al lector gran parte de la materia prima de donde procedian sus novelas. A partir de la lectura de su cautivadora correspondencia, el lector podra sentir que ademas de conocer a la Jane Austen novelista, paulatinamente a sus ojos se ira desvelando la Jane Austen mujer, lo que ahondara en una (si cabe) mayor admiracion por la figura y obra de la genial escritora. Jane Austen consigue transmitirnos una sensacion de intimidad extraordinaria al mostrarnos en detalle su caracter y su ingenio y al acercarnos a su gran familia.

Pride and Prejudice is a romance novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story charts the emotional development of the protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet, who learns the error of making hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between the superficial and the essential. The comedy of the writing lies in the depiction of manners, education, marriage, and money during the British Regency period.Mr. Bennet of the Longbourn estate has five daughters, but his property is entailed, meaning that none of the girls can inherit it. His wife has no fortune, so it is imperative that at least one of the girls marry well in order to support the others on his death. Jane Austens opening line, "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife" is a sentence filled with irony and playfulness. The novel revolves around the importance of marrying for love, not simply for money, despite the social pressures to make a good (i.e. wealthy) match.

Emma es una novela cómica escrita por Jane Austen, en inglés, publicada por vez primera en 1815 por el editor John Murray, sobre los peligros de malinterpretar el romance. El personaje principal, Emma Woodhouse, se describe como "hermosa, lista y rica" pero tambien esta bastante mimada. Antes de comenzar la novela, Austen escribio, "Voy a elegir una heroina que, excepto a mi, no gustara mucho."

Biblioteca de traductoresObras de grandes autores de la literatura de todos los tiempos en nuevas versiones realizadas por los mejores traductoresTras la muerte del señor Dashwood, su esposa y sus tres hijas, Elinor, Marianne y la pequeña Margaret, deben abandonar sus posesiones en Norland al heredar solo el hijo mayor, fruto de un anterior matrimonio. Las acogen unos familiares en Barton Cottage, donde deberan aprender a vivir en condiciones mucho mas modestas de las que conocieron. Elinor y Marianne descubriran el amor, pero tambien el dolor que produce una mala eleccion o el no ser correspondido.Marianne, mas romantica, se abandona a los impulsos del corazon con sus incontenibles entusiasmos que desembocan en el desencanto y en la desesperacion. Elinor, en cambio, sigue los dictamenes de la razon y mantiene un admirable dominio de si misma al enfrentarse con sus sufrimientos amorosos por el amor que dejo en Norland.Jane Austen, ademas de realizar una critica profunda de la hipocresia y de las convenciones sociales, asi como de la marginacion de la mujer, dota a "Sensatez y sentimiento" de una fascinacion y de una viveza irresistibles, con personajes inolvidables como Elinor y Marianne, que han hecho de esta novela un clasico de la literatura universal.Biblioteca de traductoresObras de grandes autores de la literatura de todos los tiempos en nuevas versiones realizadas por los mejores traductoresTras la muerte del señor Dashwood, su esposa y sus tres hijas, Elinor, Marianne y la pequeña Margaret, deben abandonar sus posesiones en Norland al heredar solo el hijo mayor, fruto de un anterior matrimonio. Las acogen unos familiares en Barton Cottage, donde deberan aprender a vivir en condiciones mucho mas modestas de las que conocieron. Elinor y Marianne descubriran el amor, pero tambien el dolor que produce una mala eleccion o el no ser correspondido.Marianne, mas romantica, se abandona a los impulsos del corazon con sus incontenibles entusiasmos que desembocan en el desencanto y en la desesperacion. Elinor, en cambio, sigue los dictamenes de la razon y mantiene un admirable dominio de si misma al enfrentarse con sus sufrimientos amorosos por el amor que dejo en Norland.Jane Austen, ademas de realizar una critica profunda de la hipocresia y de las convenciones sociales, asi como de la marginacion de la mujer, dota a "Sensatez y sentimiento" de una fascinacion y de una viveza irresistibles, con personajes inolvidables como Elinor y Marianne, que han hecho de esta novela un clasico de la literatura universal.

Orgullo y prejuicio, de Jane Austen, autora de otras obras de la narrativa extranjera como Sentido y sensibilidad o Persuasión, es una novela satírica, antirromántica, profunda y mordaz a un tiempo, que nace de la observacion de la vida domestica y de un profundo conocimiento de la condicion 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.La aparicion en Longbourn, un pueblo de la campiña inglesa, de Charles Bingley, joven, soltero y rico, despierta las ambiciones de las familias del vecindario, que lo consideran un excelente partido para sus hijas. El y su amigo Fitzwilliam Darcy, tambien adinerado, tendran que luchar contra las intrigas con las que se tratara de poner trabas al amor que sienten por dos de las hermanas Bennet, pobres y modes tas, antes de alcanzar un final feliz.

Pride and Prejudice is a romance novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story charts the emotional development of the protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet, who learns the error of making hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between the superficial and the essential. The comedy of the writing lies in the depiction of manners, education, marriage, and money during the British Regency period.Mr. Bennet of the Longbourn estate has five daughters, but his property is entailed, meaning that none of the girls can inherit it. His wife has no fortune, so it is imperative that at least one of the girls marry well in order to support the others on his death. Jane Austens opening line, "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife" is a sentence filled with irony and playfulness. The novel revolves around the importance of marrying for love, not simply for money, despite the social pressures to make a good (i.e. wealthy) match.

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Sense and Sensibility (1811) is Jane Austens first published novel. It is a book about love and romance that follows the life of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. When their father dies and his property goes to his son and first wife, the Dashwood sisters move with their family to live in a modest cottage in Devonshire where start their romantic adventures and heartbreaks. The cottage belongs to their mothers cousin Sir John Middleton who welcomes them and presents them to his family and friends. One of Johns friends, Colonel Brandon, soon falls in love with Marianne, yet the latter finds him unattractive and too old for her age. She later meets the philandering John Willoughby and becomes interested in him to be drowned in grief when he leaves to do business in London. As for Elinor, she develops a relationship with Edward Ferrars before they move to Devonshire. When the two sisters are disappointed by their lovers who go with other women, the novel depicts the different ways they react as well as their wavering between passion and reason. By the end of the novel, Edward comes to mend his relationship with Elinor and marries her while Marianne marries Colonel Brandon. Weve also included a concise and informative biography of Janes works and life at the end of the book. We hope it helps to give a little context and colour about how her life interacted with her art.

This edition of "Sense and Sensibility" has been carefully formatted for your ebook reader with a functional table of contents and contains all the original watercolor illustrations by C.E. Brock. 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, Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England between 1792 and 1797, 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. The philosophical resolution of the novel is ambiguous: the reader must decide whether sense and sensibility have truly merged. Jane Austen (1775 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The 4 Unabridged Early and Posthumous Novels: Lady Susan + Sense and Sensibility + Northanger Abbey + Persuasion" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This ebook contains 4 unabridged early and posthumous novels by Jane Austen in one ebook: Lady Susan Sense and Sensibility Northanger Abbey Persuasion Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel, possibly written in 1794, but not published until 1871. Sense and Sensibility was the first of Jane Austens novels to be published. She began to write it sometime around 1797, and she worked on it for many years before its publication in 1811. The title page said that it was written "By a Lady", and only her immediate family knew that Jane Austen was the author. Impetuous Marianne Dashwood tumbles into a fairytale romance that goes sour, and her practical older sister Elinor copes with the familys financial problems while hiding her own frustrated romantic hopes. Northanger Abbey was written in 1798-99. It is a comic love story set in Bath about a young reader who must learn how to separate fantasy from reality. Miss Austen sold the novel to a publisher in 1803, and the work was advertised but never published. She bought it back many years later, and her brother Henry Austen published the novel as Northanger Abbey after her death in 1817. Persuasion was written in 1815-1816, while Jane Austen was suffering from her fatal illness. She was still working on some revisions at the time of her death in 1817. The novel was published posthumously by her brother, Henry Austen. Persuasion is a novel of second chances, expectations of society, and the constancy of love.

This edition of "Pride and Prejudice (Unabridged with the original watercolor illustrations by C.E. Brock)" has been carefully formatted for your ebook reader with a functional table of contents. Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London. Though the story is set at the turn of the 19th century, it retains a fascination for modern readers, continuing near the top of lists of most loved books such as The Big Read. It has become one of the most popular novels in English literature and receives considerable attention from literary scholars. Modern interest in the book has resulted in a number of dramatic adaptations and an abundance of novels and stories imitating Austens memorable characters or themes. To date, the book has sold some 20 million copies worldwide. As Anna Quindlen wrote, "Pride and Prejudice is also about that thing that all great novels consider, the search for self. And it is the first great novel to teach us that that search is as surely undertaken in the drawing room making small talk as in the pursuit of a great white whale or the public punishment of adultery." Jane Austen (1775 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The 3 Unabridged Core Novels: Pride and Prejudice + Mansfield Park + Emma" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This ebook contains 3 unabridged core novels by Jane Austen in one ebook: Pride and Prejudice Mansfield Park Emma Pride and Prejudice is a novel first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Mansfield Park is Jane Austens 1814 novel focusing on Fanny Price, the daughter of a poor Portsmouth family, who is taken to live with her aunt and uncle Bertrams family on their estate at the age of ten. Surrounded by her wealthy and privileged cousins, and continually reminded of her lower status by her bullying Aunt Norris, Fanny grows up timid and shy, but with a strong sense of ethics, partly instilled by her kindly cousin Edmund. Fannys gratitude and friendship for Edmund gradually grow into love, but the introduction of Mary and Henry Crawford, a captivating sister and brother, into the neighborhood of Mansfield Park, confuses and complicates the affections of the Bertram household. Emma is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in 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. Jane Austen (1775 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics.

This edition of "Sense and Sensibility" has been carefully formatted for your ebook reader with a functional table of contents and contains all the original watercolor illustrations by C.E. Brock. 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, Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England between 1792 and 1797, 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. The philosophical resolution of the novel is ambiguous: the reader must decide whether sense and sensibility have truly merged. Jane Austen (1775 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics.

Orgullo y prejuicio es una obra en la que Jane Austen dispone que todas las emociones humanas han de conservar el decoro. Este decoro se traduce en un control de las emociones mediante la prudencia y la razon. Es decir, que una persona necesita el sentido (o juicio) y la sensibilidad para conseguir sus metas. En la historia aparecen dos hermanas: Elinor y Marianne Dashwood, que representan el sentido y la sensibilidad respectivamente. Ambas se enamoran y tienen problemas para que ese amor correspondido llegue a un final feliz.