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"Orgoglio e pregiudizio" è uno dei primi romanzi di Jane Austen. La scrittrice lo iniziò a ventun anni; il libro, rifiutato da un editore londinese, rimase in un cassetto fino alla sua pubblicazione anonima nel 1813, e da allora è considerato tra i più importanti romanzi della letteratura inglese. È la storia delle cinque sorelle Bennet e dei loro corteggiatori, con al centro il romantico contrasto tra l'adorabile e capricciosa Elizabeth e l'altezzoso Darcy; lo spirito di osservazione implacabile e quasi cinico, lo studio arguto dei caratteri, la satira delle vanità e delle debolezze della vita domestica, fanno di questo romanzo una delle più efficaci e indimenticabili commedie di costume del periodo Regency inglese. Con uno scritto di Virginia Woolf.

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 unknown

Se la conoce como "la extraña plaga", y a sus desafortunadas víctimas se las llama "los innombrables" o "los abominables". Por toda Inglaterra los muertos se levantan de nuevo, y ahora incluso las hijas de las mejores familias inglesas deben dedicar su vida a perfeccionar las artes marciales. Elizabeth Bennet es una guerrera valiente cuya habilidad con la espada solo es equiparable a su agudo ingenio y afilada lengua. Pero deberá enfrentarse a su más formidable enemigo, el altivo, engreído y atractivo señor Darcy. Cuando los dos enamorados se encuentren en el salón de baile o en el campo de batalla, aprenderán que nada, ni siquiera las bandas de ninjas, las hordas de zombis caníbales o las tías que desaprueban su unión, podrán impedir el amor verdadero. Adaptación de Tony Lee e ilustrada por Cliff Richards.

A brand new translation, with dual text, of one of the founding texts of literary modernism A brand new translation, with dual text, of one of the founding texts of literary modernism Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city and its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sensual delights of intoxication, art, and women. Published posthumously in 1869, The Spleen of Paris was a landmark publication in the development of the genre of prose poetrya format which Baudelaire saw as particularly suited for expressing the feelings of uncertainty, flux, and freedom of his ageand one of the founding texts of literary modernism.

With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtleexploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen'smost flawless work, this Penguin Threads edition includes cover artby Jillian Tamaki and deluxe french flaps...

This book contains the complete novels of Jane Austen in the chronological order of their original publication.. Lady Susan. Sense and Sensibility. Pride and Prejudice . Mansfield Park. Emma. Persuasion. Northanger Abbey. The Watson2019 Jane Austen (P)2019 Page2Page

These inventive and entertaining pieces display the genesis of the wit and imagination of Jane Austens mature fiction, and are by turns amusing, acerbic, and occasionally downright silly. The stories Love and Friendship and Lesley Castle provide parodies of the gentry and the fashionable idea of sensibility of the time, while A History of England is a lively chronicle of English monarchic history. Also included in this collection are The Three Sisters, Catharine, and the series of vignettes known as A Collection of Letters.

Enduringly popular, treasured and enjoyed, the seven great novels of Jane Austen beautifully repackaged in this stunning new trade paperback edition.

Die kluge, selbstbewusste aber auch verwohnte junge Emma Woodhouse lebt ein Leben ohne finanzielle Note. Um sich die Langeweile auf dem elterlichen Besitz zu vertreiben, versucht sie sich - mal recht, mal schlecht - als Arrangeurin zwischenmenschlicher Beziehungen. Nicht selten intrigant und gegen die Opfer ihrer Bemuhungen handelnd, erkennt sie ihr sinnloses Unterfangen, als sie selbst fur den wahren Gentleman Mr. Knightley entflammt. Wie dumm, dass sie diesen ursprunglich fur die schone Harriet Smith vorgesehen hatte.Jane Austens Werk gilt als richtungweisend fur die englische Literatur, sowohl stilistisch als auch inhaltlich."Ich werde eine Heldin schaffen, die keiner auer mir besonders mogen wird." [Jane Austen]Null Papier Verlag

This version is fully illustrated with all the original drawings. It also includes a detailed introductory annotation on how the book and the plot were created.We, therefore, bestow no mean compliment upon the author of Emma, when we say that, keeping close to common incidents, an4 to such characters as occupy the ordinary walks of life, she has produced sketches of such spirit and originality, that we never miss the excitation which depends upon a narrative of uncommon events, arising from the consideration of minds, manners and sentiments, greatly above our own. In this class she stands almost alone ; for the scenes of Miss Edgeworth are laid in higher life, varied by more romantic incident, and by her remarkable power of embodying and illustrating national character. But the author of "Emma" confines herself chiefly to the middling classes of society ; her most distinguished characters do not rise greatly above well-bred country gentlemen and ladies ; and those which are sketched with most originality and precision, belong to a class rather below that standard. - Sir Walter Scott."Emma," perhaps, is the work upon which most suffrages would meet as the most perfect of all her performances. - Margaret Oliphant.

Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex.Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband.With its wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible heroine, Pride and Prejudice has proved one of the most enduringly popular novels in the English language.

This annotated version is fully illustrated with the original drawings. It also includes a detailed introductory annotation on how the book and the plot were created.To say nothing of the supreme excellence of the dialogue, there is scarcely a page but has its little gem of exact and polished phrasing; scarcely a chapter which is not neatly opened or artistically ended ; while the whole book abounds in sentences over which the writer, it is plain, must have lingered with patient and loving craftsmanship. . . . Criticism has found little to condemn in the details of this capital novel.- Austin DobsonNever was there a book written which has given more harmless pleasure to those who have come under its spell. As we open its pages, we bid adieu to a world of sordid cares and troublesome interests, and though we do not wander into fairy-land, for Miss Austens world is always matter-of-fact, we do catch a breath of an air less severe than that which we habitually draw, and find, if not fairy-land, at least a touch of the lightness of fairy-land brought down to us. - Adolphus Alfred Jack."Pride and Prejudice is realistic in its narrowness of scope, in its lack of complicated plot, and in that it sets forth clearly and fully a limited section of life. It attempts to hold up no ideals ; it deals for the most part with middle-class people ; it has in it no literary atmosphere suggested either by the characters or by the apthors allusions. And yet one forgets that he is reading a book ; he feels as if he were making a visit among people in whom he had a human interest. He finds himself scheming with the fond mother in her matchmaking interests for her daughters five.- Charity Dye.

Penguin Classics completes the set of Austen´s novels in this beautiful clothbound series, with covers by award-winning Penguin designer Coralie Bickford-Smith.