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This edition of Jane Austen's 19th-century novel presents the 1816 text along with contemporary critical essays that introduce students to "Emma" from gender, new historical, Marxist, cultural, and f

Orgullo y prejuicio ha fascinado a generaciones de lectores por sus inolvidables personajes y su retrato de una sociedad, la Inglaterra victoriana y rural, tan contradictoria como absurda. Satírica, antirromantica, profunda y mordaz a un tiempo, la obra de Jane Austen nace de la observacion de la vida domestica y de un profundo conocimiento de la condicion humana.

Begun in 1811 at the height of Jane Austen's writing powers and published in 1814, Mansfield Park marks a conscious break from the tone of her first three novels, Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice, the last of which Austen came to see as "rather too light." Fanny Price is unlike any of Austen's previous heroines, a girl from a poor family brought up in a splendid country house and possessed of a vast reserve of moral fortitude and imperturbability. She is very different from Elizabeth Bennet, but is the product of the same inspired imagination.

Orgullo y Prejuicio se teje alrededor de las relaciones que se establecen entre dos grupos familiares en la Inglaterra rural: por una parte el matrimonio Bennet con sus cinco hijas -entre las que destaca especialmente Elizabeth, despierta y vivaz-, y por otra el rico Charles Bingley y sus dos hermanas, junto con su aun mas rico amigo Fitzwilliam Darcy. Marcados en un principio por los prejuicios y los malos entendidos, los vinculos sociales y sentimentales entre los mienbros de una y otra parte van madurando y matizandose a lo largo de la novela.

Jane Austen's first novel, "Northanger Abbey"--published posthumously in 1818--tells the story of Catherine Morland and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austen's fallible heroine is repeatedly drawn into scrapes while vacationing at Bath and during her subsequent visit to Northanger Abbey, Catherine eventually triumphs, blossoming into a discerning woman who learns truths about love, life, and the heady power of literature. The satirical "Northanger Abbey" pokes fun at the gothic novel while earnestly emphasizing caution to the female sex. This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the first edition of 1818.

Two sisters of opposing temperaments but who share the pangs of tragic love provide the subjects for Sense and Sensibility. Elinor, practical and conventional, is the epitome of sense; Marianne, emotional and sentimental, the embodiment of sensibility. To each comes the sorrow of unhappy love: Elinor desires a man who is promised to another while Marianne loses her heart to a scoundrel who jilts her. Their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between the two sisters — and true love finally triumphs when sense gives way to sensibility and sensibility gives way to sense. The handsome volumes in The Collectors Library present great works of world literature in a handy hardback format. Printed on high-quality paper and bound in real cloth, each complete and unabridged volume has a specially commissioned afterword, brief biography of the author and a further-reading list. This easily accessible series offers readers the perfect opportunity to discover, or rediscover, some of the world's most endearing literary works. The volumes in The Collector's Library are sumptuously produced, enduring editions to own, to collect and to treasure.

Emma Woodhouse is a beautiful and lovely lady who seems to be immune to love. However, her charm will make us love her as she becomes "more warm-hearted".

Orgullo y prejuicio, es la obra que consagró a Jane Austen como la novelista del prerromanticismo inglés. Charles Bingley, joven soltero y rico, despierta las ambiciones de las familias del vecindario, que ven en él a un buen partido para sus hijas. Tras muchas peripecias, Bingley se casa con la mayor de las hermanas Bennet, familia de posición más bien modesta, y lo mismo hacen dos de sus mejores amigos, igualmente ricos, que contraen matrimonio con otras dos hermanas más jóvenes. Jane Austen retrata, con una ironía muy matizada, la psicología de la burguesía inglesa que se mueve entre hipócritas orgullos de clase y prejuicios sociales.

Sentido y sensibilidad fue la primera novela en publicarse de las siete que debemos al genio de Jane Austen. Son sus protagonistas las jóvenes hermanas Dashwood, quienes, desde caracteres contrapuestos, comparten el mismo afán por la búsqueda de la felicidad. Elinor, tranquila y paciente, confía en salvar con su discreción los obstáculos que impiden su relación con Edward Ferrars. Impetuosa y extravertida, Marianne, por el contrario, no duda en dejarse conquistar por el seductor Willoughby.

Emma Woodhouse believes she is right in all things, in particular who should marry whom. Absorbed in arranging the life and loves of her friends, Emma fails to realize that she herself is falling in love, a failure which surprises and delights both her and the reader.

La obra de Jane Austen ha vencido sin dificultades el paso del tiempo y se ha mantenido en todo momento en un lugar de privilegio en los gustos de lectores y especialistas. Orgullo y prejuicio es una novela de amor o, mejor, una novela de enamorados. Bingley y Jane, Darcy y Elisabeth, Lydia y Wickham luchan para obtener el objeto de su pasión, deben participar en el juego que la sociedad en que viven les propone y deben ganarlo. Sin saltarse las reglas, pero con un tesón capaz de vencer cualquier barrera, llegarán a toda costa a ese matrimonio que para ellos habrá de marcar el inicio de la felicidad soñada.

In SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, Jane Austen writes about two ways of looking at the world in the personalities of two sisters, Elinor the determinedly practical and Marianne the madly romantic. Forced to live in reduced circumstances with their widowed mother and younger sister, the Dashwood girls must rely on marrying well if they are to survive in the world, and the way in which this goal is eventually accomplished provides the plot of this delightful novel, the first of Jane Austen's to be published (1811). As SENSE AND SENSIBILITY progresses to the requisite happy ending, Elinor and Marianne and their suitors are subjected to a volley of misunderstandings, jealousies, and manipulations--and to Jane Austen's mercilessly satirical look at provincial life. As she herself stated, "Three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on"--and in doing so, Austen perfected the comedy of manners, zeroing in on her characters and their relationship to the society in which they live--an achievement that brought her closer to the later novels of the Victorian era and the 20th century than to those that preceded her.