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Publicada originalmente en 1813, Orgullo y perjuicio es una de las obras maestras de la literatura inglesa de todos los tiempos. A lo largo de una trama que discurre con la precisión de un mecanismo de relojería, Jane Austen perfila una galería de personajes que conforman un perfecto y sutil retrato de época: las peripecias de una dama empeñada en casar a sus hijas con el mejor partido de la región, los vaivenes sentimentales de las hermanas, el oportunismo de un clérigo adulador... El trazado de los caracteres y el análisis de las relaciones humanas sometidas a un rígido código de costumbres, elementos esenciales en la narrativa de la autora, alcanzan en esta novela cotas de maestría insuperable.

Emma Woodhouse is the lovely, lively, willful, and fallible heroine of Jane Austens fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she understands the feelings of others as little as she does her own heart. As Emma puzzles and blunders her way through the mysteries of her social world, Austen evokes for her readers a cast of unforgettable characters and a detailed portrait of a small town undergoing historical transition. Written with matchless wit and irony, judged by many to be her finest novel, Emma has been adapted many times for film and television. This new edition contains lively notes and an introduction that shows how Austen brilliantly turns the mundane into the exceptional.

Última novela de la autora, publicada póstumamente en 1818, Persuasión narra la historia de una mujer en su madurez, una mujer sensible, paciente y menospreciada, que, años después de haber rechazado, persuadida por un mal consejo, al hombre que amaba, ve cómo este reaparece en su vida, rico y honorable pero aún despechado. Una mujer, en suma, que quizá por primera vez en la historia de la novela debe luchar para que el amor le conceda una segunda oportunidad. Como telón de fondo, un logrado retablo familiar y una maravillosa recreación de época.

The "Bookworms Library" is a new edition of the "Oxford Bookworms Black and Green" series. Each title offers activities before, while and after reading, helping st

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.