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"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.

Publicada originalmente en 1813, Orgullo y prejuicio es una de las obras maestras de la literatura inglesa de todos los tiempos. Traducción de Ana Mª RodríguezIntroducción de Tony Tanner A lo largo de una trama que discurre con gran ritmo y precision, Jane Austen reune una galeria de personajes caracteristicos de toda una epoca: la dama empeñada en casar a sus hijas con el mejor partido de la region, las hermanas que se debaten con sus vaivenes sentimentales, el clerigo adulador que peca de oportunista... El estudio de caracteres y el analisis de las relaciones humanas basadas en la costumbre, elementos esenciales de la narrativa de la autora, alcanzan en Orgullo y prejuicio cotas de maestria insuperable. La presente edicion incluye una detallada cronologia de la autora. Asimismo, recupera la introduccion original en Penguin Clasicos de Tony Tanner, que desarrollo su carrera como catedratico de literatura inglesa y norteamericana en la Universidad de Cambridge, y cuyas agudas reflexiones sobre Jane Austen son la mejor guia para adentrarse en el universo literario de esta autora. "Mi locura no ha sido el amor sino la vanidad."

Maggie Lane is the author of Jane Austen''s World and Jane Austen and Food , and is a former Honorary Secretary of the Jane Austen Society. Her introductions to The Winchester Austen cover aspects of Jane Austen''s social and economic world, including religion and food.Dr John Wiltshire is Reader in the School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, La Trobe University in Australia, and is one of the world''s leading Austen scholars. He has published three books on Austen, including Recreating Jane Austen , and is presently working on Austen and England: Critical Politics . His introductions to The Winchester Austen look at modern ways of understanding and interpreting the novels.Josephine Ross is the author of The Men Who Would be King , and has written television drama scripts and a number of histories and biographies, including The Winter Queen and The Tudors . Her most recent publication is Jane Austen: A Companion . Her introductions to The Winchester Austen cover the historical and social context, including the role of women and women and fashion.Caroline Sanderson is a devotee of Jane Austen and has made many trips visiting the locations of various periods in Austen''s life and the possible basis of the places in her novels. Caroline''s journey in search of Jane Austen is recounted in her latest book A Rambling Fancy . She is also a writer and reviewer for Bookseller magazine, and has written a travel book for children called Pick Your Brains About Greece . Her introductions to The Winchester Austen explore the geographical settings of the novels.

A series of author''s works together with 12 pages of colour introducing the characters, locations and times of author.

"Me!" cried Fanny..."Indeed you must excuse me. I could not act any thing if you were to give me the world. No, indeed, I cannot act."' At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park. There she accepts her lowly status, and gradually falls in love with her cousin Edmund. When the dazzling and sophisticated Henry and Mary Crawford arrive, Fanny watches as her cousins become embroiled in rivalry and sexual jealousy. As the company starts to rehearse ...

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

Emma is the story of the eponymous Miss Woodhouse who, having lost her close companion Anne Taylor to marriage, sets out on an ill-fated career of match-making in the town of Highbury. Taking as her subject the pretty but dreary Harriet Smith, she manages to cause misunderstandings with every new tactic she employs. Though precious and spoilt, Emma is charming to all around her and so it takes her some time to learn her lesson and profit from spending less time worrying about how other people should live their lives. 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.

Famed 18th and 19th century English novelist, Jane Austen, wrote many novels in her lifetime. "Northanger Abbey" was one of the first novels she finished, and while she sold the manuscript in 1803, the novel was not published (posthumously) until 1817. "Northanger Abbey" is similar to many of Jane Austens novels. It involves a lot of relatively wealthy families socialising with each other, usually at balls and other genteel parties. The protagonist of "Northanger Abbey" is a seventeen-year-old young woman, Catherine Morland, who is obsessed with Gothic novels. When the novel begins, she is visiting Bath with a pair of family friends. While in Bath, she meets two different families: the Thorpe family and the Tilney family..."Nothanger Abbey" is the story of this young woman and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austens 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 novel pokes fun at the Gothic novel while earnestly emphasising caution to the female sex.

Jane Austen was an English novelist best known for her novels criticising the social institutions of her time, such as marriage and wealth."Persuasion", one of her masterpieces, was published posthumously in 1817. Unlike her novel "Northanger Abbey", with which it was published, "Persuasion" is a work of Austens maturity. Like her best works, "Mansfield Park" and "Emma", it contains subdued satire and develops the comedy of character and manners."Persuasion" tells the story of a second chance, the reawakening of love between Anne Elliot and Captain Frederick Wentworth, whom eight years earlier she had been persuaded not to marry. Wentworth returns from the Napoleonic Wars with prize money and the social acceptability of naval rank. He is now an eligible suitor, acceptable to Annes snobbish father and his circle, and Anne discovers the continuing strength of her love for him.

"Mansfield Park" is a novel by Jane Austen published in three volumes in 1814. In its tone and discussion of religion and religious duty, it is the most serious of Austens novels.While "Mansfield Park" appears in some ways to continue where "Pride and Prejudice" left off, it is a much darker work, which challenges the very values (of tradition, stability, retirement and faithfulness) it appears to endorse. Adopted into the household of her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, Fanny Price grows up a meek outsider among her cousins in the unaccustomed elegance of Mansfield Park. Soon after Sir Thomas absents himself on estate business in Antigua (the familys investment in slavery and sugar is considered in the Introduction in a new, post-colonial light), Mary Crawford and her brother Henry arrive at Mansfield, bringing with them London glamour, and the seductive taste for flirtation and theatre that precipitates a crisis.

Em Orgulho e Preconceito, Jane Austen nos apresenta os Bennets: uma família nobre, porém sem dinheiro, composta pelo pai, pela mãe e por cinco moças, todas em idade de se casar e nenhuma com direito

Em "Razão e sentimento", Jane Austen apresenta-nos os costumes das famílias inglesas do século XVIII. Suas personagens Elinor, Marianne e a jovem Margaret — as irmãs Dashwood —, após a morte do pai,