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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..

About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronets lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income. All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and her uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it. She had two sisters to be benefited by her elevation; and such of their acquaintance as thought Miss Ward and Miss Frances quite as handsome as Miss Maria, did not scruple to predict their marrying with almost equal advantage. But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them. Miss Ward, at the end of half a dozen years, found herself obliged to be attached to the Rev. Mr. Norris, a friend of her brother-in-law, with scarcely any private fortune, and Miss Frances fared yet worse. Miss Wards match, indeed, when it came to the point, was not contemptible: Sir Thomas being happily able to give his friend an income in the living of Mansfield; and Mr. and Mrs. Norris began their career of conjugal felicity with very little less than a thousand a year. But Miss Frances married, in the common phrase, to disoblige her family, and by fixing on a lieutenant of marines, without education, fortune, or connexions, did it very thoroughly. She could hardly have made a more untoward choice. Sir Thomas Bertram had interest, which, from principle as well as pridefrom a general wish of doing right, and a desire of seeing all that were connected with him in situations of respectability, he would have been glad to exert for the advantage of Lady Bertrams sister; but her husbands profession was such as no interest could reach; and before he had time to devise any other method of assisting them, an absolute breach between the sisters had taken place. It was the natural result of the conduct of each party, and such as a very imprudent marriage almost always produces. To save herself from useless remonstrance, Mrs. Price never wrote to her family on the subject till actually married. Lady Bertram, who was a woman of very tranquil feelings, and a temper remarkably easy and indolent, would have contented herself with merely giving up her sister, and thinking no more of the matter; but Mrs. Norris had a spirit of activity, which could not be satisfied till she had written a long and angry letter to Fanny, to point out the folly of her conduct, and threaten her with all its possible ill consequences. Mrs. Price, in her turn, was injured and angry; and an answer, which comprehended each sister in its bitterness, and bestowed such very disrespectful reflections on the pride of Sir Thomas as Mrs. Norris could not possibly keep to herself, put an end to all intercourse between them for a considerable period.

Contents:Juvenilia Volume IJuvenilia Volume IIJuvenilia Volume IIIFrom the age of eleven, and perhaps earlier, Austen wrote poems and stories for her own and her familys amusement. In these works the details of daily life are exaggerated, common plot devices are parodied, and the "stories are full of anarchic fantasies of female power, licence, illicit behaviour, and general high spirits", according to Janet Todd. Austen later compiled fair copies of twenty-nine early works into three bound notebooks, now referred to as the Juvenilia, containing work written between 1787 and 1793. She called the three notebooks "Volume the First", "Volume the Second" and "Volume the Third", and they preserve 90,000 words she wrote during those years. The Juvenilia are often, according to scholar Richard Jenkyns, "boisterous" and "anarchic"; he compares them to the work of 18th-century novelist Laurence Sterne.

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.

Contents:Lady SusanSense and SensibilityPride and PrejudiceMansfield ParkEmmaPersuasionNorthanger AbbeyJuvenilia – Volume IJuvenilia – Volume IIJuvenilia – Volume III

La popularísima novela de Jane Austen convertida en una enternecedora historia de amor con nuevas escenas pobladas de gigantescas langostas, pulpos voraces, serpientes marinas de dos cabezas y otros monstruos. Cuando las hermanas Dashwoods son expulsadas de su hogar, van a vivir a una isla llena de criaturas salvajes y oscuros secretos. Elinor, la mas sensata de las dos, se enamora de Edward Ferrars, mientras a su hermana Marianne se la disputan el apuesto Willoughby y el temible coronel Brandon, mitad hombre y mitad monstruo. ¿Podran las bellas hermanas encontrar el amor verdadero? ¿O caeran presas de los tentaculos que todo el tiempo intentan agarrarlas de los talones? De los creadores del exito internacional Orgullo, prejuicio y zombis llega este magistral retrato de la Inglaterra de la Regencia que combina los mordaces apuntes sociales de Jane Austen con escenas ultraviolentas de monstruos surgidos de las profundidades el mar.

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.

Emma Woodhouse, beautiful, young and intelligent heiress of the English bourgeoisie, attempts to combine the wedding of her friend Harriet Smith, a woman of far different social class. His impulsiveness and spontaneity will lead to trigger a series of misunderstandings, which will result in comical and tragic situations that will personally involve her.

The love story between the aristocratic Ann and the bourgeois Frederich, is a feeling that will be able to overcome the difference in social class and a separation lasted seven long years.

"Orgoglio e pregiudizio" di Jane Austen e un fumetto rielaborato dallillustratrice romana Sicks. Rappresenta la prima uscita della nuova collana di bignami letterari illustrati, i Bigne.Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1813, in occasione del duecentesimo anniversario, "Orgoglio e pregiudizio" viene riletto, con un look manga-style color seppia, in chiave ironica, molto femminile e moderna da Sicks, giovane illustratrice e pittrice romana diplomata alla Scuola Internazionale di Comics.Il romanzo racconta una storia damore estremamente allavanguardia per lepoca: lorgogliosa Elizabeth Bennet si innamora di Darcy, un uomo dai mille pregiudizi. O e il contrario? Una girandola di personaggi divertenti e indimenticabili, un tripudio di solidarieta femminile tra le donne Bennet, e di amore con la A maiuscola in uno dei romanzi piu riadattati degli ultimi anni.Dai film alle mille versioni con gli zombie, ecco "Orgoglio e pregiudizio" a fumetti, in Italia.Il romanzo cult delle romantiche di tutti i tempi in una versione agile e snella, da divorare come un dolcissimo bigne.

In the English spa town of Bath takes place the social initiation of the young Catherine Morland, who, between reality and imagination will investigate an alleged murder.

In the English countryside, the three young sisters Dashwood, fatherless and in poverty, mature through the pains and joys of love.

Classic / British English (Available February 2008) When they were very young, Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth were in love. They did not marry, but Anne never forgot her love for him. Now, many years later, they meet again. Does Wentworth feel anything for Anne, or is he only interested in her pretty young friends?

Part of a series of Jane Austen''s works, with introductions by Austen scholars, together with 12 pages of colour introducing the characters, locations and times of Jane Austen.

Classic / British English (Available March 2008) Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are two very different sisters. Marianne loves excitement and always shows her feelings; Elinor is quiet and has more good sense. They both fall in love and both suffer broken hearts. Will they ever find the right man to love and marry?

Emma Woodhouse is beautiful, clever and rich. She lives alone with her father, and spends a lot of her time thinking about future husbands - for her friends. When she meets Harriet Smith, a poor girl with no family, Emma decides that she must find a husband for her. Harriet is pleased to be Emma's friend - but will Emma's matchmaking make Harriet happy?

«Orgullo y prejuicio» está considerada como una de las mejores novelas escritas en inglés y su autora como una de las grandes escritoras en lengua inglesa. Novela entretenida, de suspense, con un arg

Una joven, ávida lectora de novelas, acabará interpretando un personaje totalmente novelesco que se moverá entre intrigas y terribles secretos. Es una novela de la primera época de su autora. En principio concebida como una sátira de la novela gótica, va sin embargo más allá de este propósito y ofrece una pintura social rica y mordaz y una trama ingeniosísima con sorpresas inesperadas.