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Classic / British English (Available May 2008) Emma Woodhouse is beautiful, clever and rich. She likes to arrange marriages between her friends and neighbours in the village of Highbury. But Emma makes a lot of mistakes and causes more problems than happy marriages. Then she almost loses her own chance of love.

Jane Austen Retold by Derek Sellen Activities by Derek Sellen and Kenneth Brodey Love Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, has a perfect life. She has decided never to get married but to live as the mistress of Hartfield, her fathers house in the beautiful English countryside. But when she starts matchmaking she finds that her imagination has led her into danger. Dossiers: Jane Austen and Reading The Poor Leisure in Early Nineteenth-century England The Upper Classes Exit test

Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Jane and Elizabeth Bennet are the oldest of five sisters in need of husbands, but it isnt easy to find the right man. Are Mr Bingley, Mr Darcy and Mr Wickham all that they seem? Will pride and prejudice ever be defeated in the search for true love?

Jane Austen''s novels Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey remain hugely popular and are widely acknowledged as classics. Here Hodder Headline Audiobooks'' acclaimed abridged readings of them are collected in one specially-priced pack.

La primera novela publicada por Jane Austen, una obra de indiscutible genio. Introducción de Tony Tanner En Sentido y sensibilidad, Jane Austen explora con sutileza e ironía las opciones de la mujer en una sociedad rigida, donde el exito o el fracaso dependen de la eleccion del marido. La historia se centra en dos hermanas, Elinor y Marianne, cuyas personalidades antagonicas ejemplifican dos posibles respuestas femeninas ante la hipocresia dominante: el "sentido comun" y la "sensibilidad". Sin embargo, tanto un camino como el otro entrañan sus peligros. Esta edicion incorpora una cronologia detallada y recupera la introduccion de la edicion original de Penguin Clasicos a cargo de Tony Tanner, uno de los mayores especialistas en la obra de Jane Austen, a cuyo estudio dedico gran parte de su carrera. Fue catedratico de literatura inglesa y norteamericana en la Universidad de Cambridge. "Venga, entre amigos no hay secretos." Sobre la autora y su obra:"La pongo al nivel de Shakespeare, Cervantes y Henry Fielding."Henry James

Collection containing Emma, Lady Susan, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility the best novels of Jane Austen.

Elizabeth Bennet wants to fall in love and marry the man she loves. The choice, through mutual misunderstandings and misconceptions, will fall on the retiring neighbor Mr Darcy. Meanwhile Bingley and Wickham two Darcys young friends, seduce Jane and Lydia Bennet.

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Jane AustenInjustement privées de leur héritage, Elinor et Marianne Dashwood sont contraintes de quitter le Sussex pour le Devonshire, où elles sont rapidement acceptées par la bourgeoisie locale étr

Fall head over heels in love with Jane Austen's most famous romance--a tale of hasty judgments, heartache, scandalous behavior, and, finally, true love. Stylish and teen-friendly, Bloomsbury Classics bring a cool, contemporary appeal to some of the most exciting books ever written. Each title has a foreword by a top children's author that explains Why You Should Read This Book. Plus, a fun newspaper at the back of each book is packed with interesting facts and details--including a brief author biography, details on the fashions and music of the times, and a gossip column about key figures of the day.

Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners 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 a

Romanzo che narra le vicende della ventenne Emma Woodhouse, il cui hobby risulta quello di intrecciare flirt e combinare matrimoni, non sempre però con esiti fortunati. Libro in lingua originale ingl

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

Fanny Price, the eldest daughter of a poor retired Marine lieutenant is taken by the Bertram family and raised at their country house in Mansfield Park. Fannys social climbing will be at the cost of

The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister. But her death, which happened ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he invited and received into his house the family of his nephew Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it. In the society of his nephew and niece, and their children, the old Gentlemans days were comfortably spent. His attachment to them all increased. The constant attention of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood to his wishes, which proceeded not merely from interest, but from goodness of heart, gave him every degree of solid comfort which his age could receive; and the cheerfulness of the children added a relish to his existence.

Epistolary novel that tells the intrigues employed by Lady Susan, determined to find a husband for herself and for her daughter, without any moral scruples.

La aparición 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. Él y su amigo Fitzwilliam Darcy, también adinerado, tendrán que luchar contra las intrigas con las que se tratará de poner trabas al amor que sienten por dos de las hermanas Bennet, pobres y modestas, antes de alcanzar un final feliz.

La última y conmovedora novela de Jane Austen, publicada póstumamente en 1818 Persuasión narra la historia de una mujer madura, sensible y menospreciada, que años despues de dejarse persuadir para rechazar al hombre que amaba, lo ve reaparecer en su vida, rico y honorable pero aun despechado. Quiza por primera vez en la historia de la novela, la mujer debe luchar para que el amor le conceda una segunda oportunidad. Esta obra de madurez esta considerada una de las novelas mas oscuras de Jane Austen, y es sin duda la mas critica con la sociedad de suepoca. La presente edicion incorpora una detallada cronologia de la autora. Asimismo, cuenta con una magnifica introduccion de la critica y academica Gilliam Beer, especialista en el campo de la novela victoriana y doctora honoris causa en literatura por las universidades de Oxford y Harvard. "Obligada a conducirse prudentemente en su juventud, con la edad se volvia cada vez mas romantica: esa era la consecuencia logica de su iniciacion antinatural."

Último romance escrito por Jane Austen, Persuasão acompanha a jornada de autoconhecimento e redenção de Anne Elliot, e é uma das obras mais célebres da autora. A senhorita Elliot, filha de um importa

Obra original en la que está basada la película del mismo nombre, llevada al cine por el fotógrafo y director Autumn de Wilde, con la interpretación de Anya Taylor-Joy como protagonista principal, interpretando a Emma, figura primordial.Emma Woodhouse, hermosa, lista y rica, con una familia acomodada y jovial caracter, parecia reunir las mejores bendiciones de la existencia; ya habia vivido casi veintiun años en el mundo sin que muy poco la afligiese o enojase.Asi comienza Jane Austen esta novela, que comparte nombre con la protagonista de la misma. De este modo y ya desde el inicio, la autora revela a Emma como Emma Woodhouse, la heroina de esta original y enrevesada historia.Emma es una novela atemporal, divertida, ironica y disparatada en algunos tramos, que muestra una realidad clasista e incluso frivola, de la sociedad inglesa de principios del siglo XIX en un entorno rural.Un retrato exquisito de la sociedad de la epoca, con un argumento maravilloso, repleto de enredos, tramas y confusiones, divertido y ameno.