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Una joven, ávida lectora de novelas, acabará interpretando un personaje totalmente novelesco que se moverá entre intrigas y terribles secretos. Es una novela de la primera época de su autora. En principio concebida como una satira de la novela gotica, va sin embargo mas alla de este proposito y ofrece una pintura social rica y mordaz y una trama ingeniosisima con sorpresas inesperadas. Encuadernacion: Rustica.

Redécouvrez Northanger Abbey, le roman le plus sombre de Jane Austen, grâce à cette édition inédite en France comportant des illustrations de Hugh Thomson, célèbre illustrateur victorien, dont le tra

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Jane Austen has won legions of devoted fans in the 200 years since her death with her masterful parody of courtship and lightly moralizing critique of social mores in the early 19th century. Northanger Abbey was the first of her major novels to be completed, and though it was sold to a publisher in 1803, it was not released until 1817, months after her death. The tale of Gothic novel-obsessed Catherine Morland gives readers, particularly Austen fans that have only experienced her later works, an early point of reference by which to chart the sharpening of her famous wit.

This epistolary novel, an early complete work that the author never submitted for publication, describes the schemes of the main characterthe widowed Lady Susanas she seeks a new husband for herself and one for her daughter. Although the theme, together with the focus on character study and moral issues, is close to Austens published work (Sense and Sensibility was also originally written in the epistolary form), its outlook is very different, and the heroine has few parallels in 19th-century literature. Lady Susan is a selfish, unscrupulous and scheming woman, highly attractive to men, who tries to trap the best possible husband while maintaining a relationship with a married man. She subverts all the standards of the romantic novel: she has an active role, she is not only beautiful but intelligent and witty, and her suitors are significantly younger than she is (in contrast with Sense and Sensibility and Emma, which feature marriages by their female protagonists to men who are 16 years older). Although the ending includes a traditional reward for morality, Lady Susan herself is treated more leniently than the adulteress in Mansfield Park, who is severely punished.

As the Napoleonic Wars come to an end in 1814, Admirals and Captains of the Royal Navy are put ashore, their work done. Anne Elliot meets Captain Frederick Wentworth after seven years, by the chance of his sister and brother-in-law renting her fathers estate, while she stays for a few months with her married sister, living nearby. They fell in love the first time, but she broke off the engagement.Besides the theme of persuasion, the novel evokes other topics, with which Austen was familiar: the Royal Navy, in which two of Jane Austens brothers rose to the rank of admiral; and the superficial social life of Bath. It is portrayed extensively and serves as a setting for the second half of Persuasion. In many respects, Persuasion marks a break with Austens previous works, both in the more biting, even irritable satire directed at some of the novels characters and in the regretful, resigned outlook of its otherwise admirable heroine, Anne Elliot, in the first part of the story. Against this is set the energy and appeal of the Royal Navy, which symbolises for Anne and the reader the possibility of a more outgoing, engaged, and fulfilling life, and it is this worldview which triumphs for the most part at the end of the novel.

“Emma Woodhouse, hermosa, lista y rica, con una familia acomodada y jovial carácter, parecía reunir las mejores bendiciones de la existencia; ya había vivido casi veintiún años en el mundo sin que mu

Portraying social life in fashionable Bath and centred around Catherine Morland, this novel ridicules the popular tales of romance and terror and contrasts with these the normal realities of life.

The only thing in the world that matters to Mrs Bennett, is marrying all five of her daughters to rich, landed gentlemen.So when two wealthy young gentlemen move to town, she vows that at least one of her daughters will marry into their fortunes.Jane and Elizabeth, her eldest daughters, soon discover that love is rarely straightforward and is often surprising. Because, surely that sullen, quiet, mysterious Mr Darcy can't be more than he seems . . . can he?

Emma, giovane ragazza viziata e snob, ha perso la madre, vive con un padre ipocondriaco ed e stata lasciata dalla sua governante-amica che si e sposata. Ha bisogno di unaltra compagna e la trova subito in Harriet Smith, di cui si prendera cura e cerchera di maritare con Mr. Elton. Questultimo, pero, fraintendendo le attenzioni di Emma, che e sempre presente per far da Cupido fra i due, si dichiara proprio a lei. Emma, che fin dallinizio rivela di non volersi sottomettere alle regole dellamore, lo rifiuta, mentre Harriet se ne perdutamente innamorata ed e costretta a subire lumiliazione di non essere corrisposta.Nel frattempo nel villaggio di Highbury arriva un giovane affascinante, Frank Churchill, e una donna elegante che suona magnificamente il pianoforte, Jane Fairfax. La vita della protagonista e turbata dai questi nuovi incontri, poiche verso Frank inizia a provare un interessamento, mentre verso Jane prova invidia e gelosia. Emma, per non perdere il controllo della situazione e di se stessa, spinge la sua amica Harriet verso Frank, che si scopre essere segretamente fidanzato ormai da un anno con Jane. Per la seconda volta Emma ha creato false aspettative e ha sbagliato a interpretare gli atteggiamenti di un uomo. Nel momento in cui Emma riconosce i propri errori, sembra riesca a calare quel velo dietro al quale si era nascosta fino ad allora e perde laspetto antipatico iniziale. Solo di fronte allevidenza Emma si rende conto di aver sempre provato dei sentimenti daffetto profondo verso lamico Knightley, che da confidente diventera suo marito.