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

Published in 1814, this nuanced examination of the social hierarchy of Jane Austens day contains more than enough wit, charm, and human drama to enchant readers of any era Published in 1814, this nuanced examination of the social hierarchy of Jane Austens day contains more than enough wit, charm, and human drama to enchant readers of any era Born into a poor family, Fanny Price is raised amid the daunting splendor of Mansfield Park by her rich uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram. Treated as an inferior by most of the family, Fanny forms a close attachment to her cousin Edmund, the only person to show her kindness. With the departure of her uncle to the West Indies and the arrival from London of the fashionable Henry and Mary Crawford, flirtation and romantic intrigue abound. As Fanny becomes increasingly uncomfortable with the conduct of her companions, she finds herself isolated and forced to face the conflict between her sense of integrity and social expectation. This edition includes pictures and an extensive section about the author's life and works.

This version 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.

The letters included in this series comprise about three quarters of the collection in two volumes published in 1884 by her great-nephew Lord Brabourne. The lightness, almost friskiness, of their tone cannot fail to strike the reader. Modern letters written by women are filled more or less with hints and queries; questionings as to the why and the wherefore occur; allusions to the various "fads" of the day, literary or artistic,- Ibsen, Tolstoi, Browning, Esoteric Buddhism, Wagners Music, the Mind Cure, Social Science, Causes and Reforms. But Cowper and Crabbe were the poetical sensations in Miss Austens time, Scott and Byron its phenomenal novelties; it took months to get most books printed, and years to persuade anybody to read them. Furthermore the letters, in all probability, are carefully chosen to reveal only the more superficial side of their writer.

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.

Epistolary novel that tells the intrigues employed by Lady Susan, determined to find a husband for herself and for her daughter, without any moral scruples.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

La aparición en Longbourn, un pueblo de la campiña inglesa, de Charles Bingley, joven, soltero y rico, despierta las ambiciones de las familias del vecindario, que lo consideran un excelente partido para sus hijas. Él y su amigo Fitzwilliam Darcy, también adinerado, tendrán que luchar contra las intrigas con las que se tratará de poner trabas al amor que sienten por dos de las hermanas Bennet, pobres y modestas, antes de alcanzar un final feliz.

Emma Woodhouse, beautiful, young and intelligent heiress of the English bourgeoisie, attempts to combine the wedding of her friend Harriet Smith, a woman of far different social class. His impulsiveness and spontaneity will lead to trigger a series of misunderstandings, which will result in comical and tragic situations that will personally involve her.

Fanny Price, the eldest daughter of a poor retired Marine lieutenant is taken by the Bertram family and raised at their country house in Mansfield Park. Fannys social climbing will be at the cost of

"Orgoglio e pregiudizio" di Jane Austen e un fumetto rielaborato dallillustratrice romana Sicks. Rappresenta la prima uscita della nuova collana di bignami letterari illustrati, i Bigne.Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1813, in occasione del duecentesimo anniversario, "Orgoglio e pregiudizio" viene riletto, con un look manga-style color seppia, in chiave ironica, molto femminile e moderna da Sicks, giovane illustratrice e pittrice romana diplomata alla Scuola Internazionale di Comics.Il romanzo racconta una storia damore estremamente allavanguardia per lepoca: lorgogliosa Elizabeth Bennet si innamora di Darcy, un uomo dai mille pregiudizi. O e il contrario? Una girandola di personaggi divertenti e indimenticabili, un tripudio di solidarieta femminile tra le donne Bennet, e di amore con la A maiuscola in uno dei romanzi piu riadattati degli ultimi anni.Dai film alle mille versioni con gli zombie, ecco "Orgoglio e pregiudizio" a fumetti, in Italia.Il romanzo cult delle romantiche di tutti i tempi in una versione agile e snella, da divorare come un dolcissimo bigne.

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's friend - but will Emma's matchmaking make Harriet happy?

Part of a series of Jane Austen''s works, with introductions by Austen scholars, together with 12 pages of colour introducing the characters, locations and times of Jane Austen.

Contents:Lady SusanSense and SensibilityPride and PrejudiceMansfield ParkEmmaPersuasionNorthanger AbbeyJuvenilia – Volume IJuvenilia – Volume IIJuvenilia – Volume III

"Me!" cried Fanny..."Indeed you must excuse me. I could not act any thing if you were to give me the world. No, indeed, I cannot act."' At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park. There she accepts her lowly status, and gradually falls in love with her cousin Edmund. When the dazzling and sophisticated Henry and Mary Crawford arrive, Fanny watches as her cousins become embroiled in rivalry and sexual jealousy. As the company starts to rehearse ...

Jane Austen''s beloved novel concerns two sisters, Elinor the practical and Marianne the romantic, who are forced to leave their home with their mother and younger sister and live in reduced circumstances in the West of England. The 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.

The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister. But her death, which happened ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he invited and received into his house the family of his nephew Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it. In the society of his nephew and niece, and their children, the old Gentlemans days were comfortably spent. His attachment to them all increased. The constant attention of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood to his wishes, which proceeded not merely from interest, but from goodness of heart, gave him every degree of solid comfort which his age could receive; and the cheerfulness of the children added a relish to his existence.

Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London. Though the story is set a

Romanzo che narra le vicende della ventenne Emma Woodhouse, il cui hobby risulta quello di intrecciare flirt e combinare matrimoni, non sempre però con esiti fortunati. Libro in lingua originale ingl