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For over 150 years, Pride And Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen herself called this brilliant work her "own darling child." Pride And Prejudice, the story of Mrs. Bennet''s attempts to marry off her five daughters is one of the best-loved and most enduring classics in English literature. Excitement fizzes through the Bennet household at Longbourn in Hertfordshire when young, eligible Mr. Charles Bingley rents the fine house nearby. He may have sisters, but he also has male friends, and one of thesethe haughty, and even wealthier, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcyirks the vivacious Elizabeth Bennet, the second of the Bennet girls. She annoys him. Which is how we know they must one day marry. The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and Darcy is a splendid rendition of civilized sparring. As the characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, Jane Austen''s radiantly caustic wit and keen observation sparkle.

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With a sharp wit and keen eye, Jane Austen painted indelible portraits of Georgian life—and exposed the follies of the age and of characters vain, silly, and greedy. Here are three of her best novels, all beautifully illustrated with period images: Sense and Sensibility, a richly textured masterpiece about two sisters with wildly differing temperaments; Emma, with its endearing but flawed protagonist; and the deliciously lighthearted Northanger Abbey. If you've read these before, re-experience the wonder; if not, prepare to be captivated!

No novel in English has given more pleasure than Pride and Prejudice. Because it is one of the great works in our literature, critics in every generation reexamine and reinterpret it. But the rest of us simply fall in love with itand with its wonderfully charming and intelligent heroine, Elizabeth Bennet. We are captivated not only by the novels romantic suspense but also by the fascinations of the world we visit in its pages. The life of the English country gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century is made as real to us as our own, not only by Jane Austens wit and feeling but by her subtle observation of the way people behave in society and how we are true or treacherous to each other and ourselves.

Translator: Isabelle de Montolieu

Pride And Prejudice, the story of Mrs. Bennets attempts to marry off her five daughters is one of the best-loved and most enduring classics in English literature. Excitement fizzes through the Bennet household at Longbourn in Hertfordshire when young, eligible Mr. Charles Bingley rents the fine house nearby. He may have sisters, but he also has male friends, and one of thesethe haughty, and even wealthier, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcyirks the vivacious Elizabeth Bennet, the second of the Bennet girls. She annoys him. Which is how we know they must one day marry. The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and Darcy is a splendid rendition of civilized sparring. As the characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, Jane Austens radiantly caustic wit and keen observation sparkle.

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

"Anne Elliot, with all her claims of birth, beauty, and mind, to throw herself away at nineteen; involve herself at nineteen in an engagement with a young man, who had nothing but himself to recommend him ..." Seven years after she allowed herself to be persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to forgo the attachment, Anne Elliot encounters Captain Wentworth again. In Bath and its environs, Jane Austen's last completed novel unravels their long estrangement.

Mansfield Park encompasses not only Jane Austens great comedic gifts and her genius as a historian of the human animal, but her personal credo as wellher faith in a social order that combats chaos through civil grace, decency, and wit. At the novels center is Fanny Price, the classic poor cousin, brought as a child to Mansfield Park by the rich Sir Thomas Bertram and his wife as an act of charity. Over time, Fanny comes to demonstrate forcibly those virtues Austen most admired: modesty, firm principles, and a loving heart. As Fanny watches her cousins Maria and Julia cast aside their scruples in dangerous flirtations (and worse), and as she herself resolutely resists the advantages of marriage to the fascinating but morally unsteady Henry Crawford, her seeming austerity grows in appeal and makes clear to us why she was Austens own favorite among her heroines.

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..

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

Contents:Juvenilia Volume IJuvenilia Volume IIJuvenilia Volume III

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

Contents:Juvenilia Volume IJuvenilia Volume IIJuvenilia Volume III

Cuando la joven Emma –hija soltera del rico y distinguido señor Woodhouse– pierde la compañía de su antigua institutriz, toma bajo su tutela a la humilde Harriet Smith. Su extracción humilde y su sim