No library's complete without the classics! This new edition collects some of the most popular works of beloved author Jane Austen. Jane Austen's stories of clever women, elusive love, and social mores have struck a chord with millions of fans who consider her work compelling, heartwarming, and essential. Adapted time and time again for screen and stage, these enduring classics remain as enjoyable as ever, the perfect addition to every home library. This edition collects Austen's acclaimed novels Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Northanger Abbey. New readers will be enchanted once they read these brilliant stories, while readers familiar with Austen's genius will enjoy the introduction from an acclaimed Austen scholar that provides background and context for the works they've always loved. Just like Jane Austen's memorable characters, readers will fall in love--with this remarkable keepsake!
Step into the world of Georgian England and learn more about the genteel life of the beloved author of such classics as Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Emma. Illustrations. 5 5/16 x 7 5/8.
Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists.
In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb and beloved novelist from her early family life in Steventown to her later years in Bath, her broken engagement, and her intense relationship with her sister Cassandra.
Whether you approach the collection on a one-a-day model or in a satisfying binge read, you will emerge wiser about Austen, if not about life.
Jane composed a satirical letter to Mrs Hunter who lived in Norwich , though of course it was never intended for the post . It ran : Jane Austen's tears have flowed over each sweet sketch in such a way as would have done Mrs Hunter's ...
Jane Austen criticism is notable mostly , not just for its timidity and banality ' , Sedgwick declares , but for its unresting exaction of the spectacle of a Girl Being Taught a Lesson . 32 Criticism has made Austen's work into “ a ...
notes that she mocks how intra-textual readers respond to Scott and Byron in her novels, not as instances of disdain for the writer but satirically toward the readers and, toward the poets, encomia (Jane Austen and Romantic Poets 7).
An anthology of 22 short stories inspired by Jane Austen includes contributions from Andriana Trigiani, Lauren Willig, Jo Beverly, Karen Joy Fowler and more. Original.
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In this volume, writers from around the world consider Austen's sometimes playful, always witty and significant use of dialogue.