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Her vitality, vivacity and wit, her hasty dismissal of superior Mr Darcy - 'the most disagreeable man in the world' - how he improves his manners and she changes her mind, are the central ingredients of Pride and Prejudice. It is Jane Austen's best-loved novel and through the depth and sparkle of its comedy we are encouraged to consider what balance of energy and order, playfulness and regulation constitutes real strength of character.

From the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen s Mansfield Park that makes her story of an impoverished girl living with her wealthy relatives an even more satisfying read. Here is the complete text of Austen s own favorite novel with more than 2,300 annotations on facing pages, including:Explanations of historical contextCitations from Austen s life, letters, and other writingsDefinitions and clarificationsLiterary comments and analysisMaps of places in the novelAn introduction, bibliography, and detailed chronology of eventsMore than225informative illustrationsFilled with fascinating details about the characters clothes, houses, and carriages, as well as background information on such relevant issues as career paths in the British navy, contemporary attitudes toward slavery, and the legal and social consequences of adultery, David M. Shapard s Annotated Mansfield Park brings Austen s world into richer focus."

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protégée Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected. With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen's most flawless work.

Emma Woodhouse è una giovane ricca e sfrontata, con una sola passione: combinare matrimoni. Dopo aver trovato marito alla governante che le ha fatto da madre, si dedica con grande determinazione a Harriet Smith, una ragazza povera e ingenua, che spera di poter spingere tra le braccia del reverendo Elton. Anche se il tentativo si rivela fallimentare, Emma continua a intrecciare flirt con l'indipendenza di chi non teme i sentimenti, finendo però per cadere lei stessa vittima delle proprie manovre. Con "Emma" Jane Austen crea un'eroina che, secondo le parole della stessa autrice, non poteva piacere ad altri che a lei: una protagonista ben consapevole della propria bellezza e intelligenza, presuntuosa e pungente, ma di uno spessore umano complesso e sfaccettato, capace d'incantare i lettori d'ogni epoca.

Un estuche sin par con las seis novelas de Jane Austen en edición especial tapa dura de Penguin Clásicos. Sentido y sensibilidad, Orgullo y prejuicio, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasión y La abadía de Northanger Las heroinas son Marianne, Elizabeth, Fanny, Emma, Anne o Catherine. Y en sus orbitas no tardan en aparecer caballeros de dudosa estirpe como John Willoughby o de impecable fibra moral como Fitzwilliam Darcy. Diferenciarlos, sin embargo, no es tan facil como puede pensarse. Y el verdadero amor rara vez esta donde se espera. En estas seis novelas magistrales, que funcionan con la puntualidad de comedias clasicas, las jovenes descubren que el camino hacia el matrimonio esta tan lleno de encantos como de desencantos, y que perseguir los propios ideales supone a veces desafiar a la sociedad que los ha inspirado. Con ironia y amabilidad, Jane Austen demuestra que es no solo la gran observadora de su epoca, sino una analista insuperable del corazon humano. Sin duda, Virginia Woolf no se equivocaba cuando la llamo "la escritora de libros inmortales"; esta edicion completa ofrece la oportunidad perfecta

The epistolary novel Lady Susan is the darkly humorous tale of the amatory schemes and machinations of an ambitious and unprincipled coquette. The Watsons is the story of the refined and well-educated Emma Watson, forced by the second marriage of her aunt to return to the house of her impecunious father and face the marital plots and intrigues of her sisters. Begun by the author in the last few months of her life, Sanditon, set in a fast-growing former fi shing village, swiftly becoming a fashionable resort, pokes fun at the inhabitants of the new coastal town, with all their hypochondria, witlessness and self-obsession.

Además de sus seis grandes novelas, Jane Austen escribió también historias de menor extensión en las que no resultan menos reconocibles ni brillantes las cualidades que hacen de ella una de las favoritas del publico, como son el analisis de los sentimientos, un fino sentido del humor y la habil caracterizacion de los personajes. El presente volumen reune las mejores de estas obras menores en tamaño, aunque no en calidad:" Lady Susan" , novela cuya desinhibida protagonista se aparta de los tipos mas comunes en las obras de Austen;" Los Watson" , en la que explora la situacion de dependencia de las mujeres;" Amor y amistad" , divertida parodia de las novelas galantes, y" Sanditon" , prometedora novela que trunco la enfermedad que llevo a la muerte a la autora.

Las CARTAS de Jane Austen suponen una lectura deliciosa y revelan al lector gran parte de la materia prima de la que procedían sus novelas. Se trata de la edición íntegra en castellano de la totalidad de las cartas que se conservan de la gran novelista inglesa. Una edición comentada, anotada e ilustrada de las CARTAS, que incluye además índices biográficos (personas aludidas en las mismas), índices topográficos, índices de las obras a las que se hace referencia, cronología de eventos, etc... Asimismo también incluye introducciones previas a las seis partes del libro en que se dividen las CARTAS que nos ayudan a situarlas en el contexto adecuado para ser perfectamente entendidas. También incluye el posfacio titulado «Tras los pasos de Jane Austen».

Of all Jane Austen's books PRIDE AND PREJUDICE has earned a special place in the hearts of the reading public as her best-loved and most intimately known novel. From its famous opening sentence the story of Elizabeth and Darcy, told with a wit that its author feared might prove "rather too light and bright, and sparkling", delights its most familiar readers as thoroughly as it does those who encounter it for the first time.

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' abridged readings of them are collected in one specially-priced pack.

After the death of her husband, Mrs Dashwood and her three daughters, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, find they must leave Norland Park and move to a small cottage. There, Marianne falls in love with the dashing but unreliable Willoughby, while Elinor pines for Edward Ferrars, the young man she has been forced to leave behind... This classic was made into a successful film starring Kate Winslet, Emma Thompson and Hugh Grant.Recommended for older readers.

Orgullo e prexuízo, publicada en 1813, é un clásico da novela inglesa, ademais dun dos grandes títulos da literatura universal. Obra que adoita ser definida como unha comedia romántica con certa dose de melodrama, predomina nela o carácter costumista, en tanto que comedia de costumes realista, e caracterízase polo recurso á ironía e pola agudeza e profundidade das análises psicolóxicas dos personaxes. Porén, un dos seus grandes valores, a miúdo esquecido, reside na exposición didáctica e crítica da situación da muller de clase media-alta no sistema patriarcal de principios do século XIX.