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Jane Austen
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Quirk Books
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: Experience Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as never before in this audacious horror mash-up full of romance, heartbreak, swordfights—and zombies!
This updated edition features 16 pages of color stills from the film adaptation, a reading group discussion guide, and bonus other materials.
A mysterious plague falls upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and...
This updated edition features 16 pages of color stills from the film adaptation, a reading group discussion guide, and bonus other materials.
A mysterious plague falls upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and...
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Ambientada en el elegante pero rígido mundo de la Inglaterra de principios del siglo XIX, Orgullo y prejuicio narra la inolvidable historia de Elizabeth Bennet, una joven independiente y de lengua afilada que se niega a conformarse con las expectativas de la sociedad. Cuando conoce al orgulloso y distante Mr. Darcy, sus primeros encuentros están llenos de malentendidos, tensiones y chispas de desdén. Sin embargo, cuando sus mundos chocan, ambos...
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Este ebook presenta "La abadía de Northanger" con un sumario dinámico y detallado.La abadía de Northanger de Jane Austen fue publicada originalmente en 1818. Narra la historia de Catherine Morland, una joven ingenua y aficionada a la lectura de novelas góticas. Invitada por los Tilney —que erróneamente la consideran una rica heredera—, a pasar una temporada en su casa de campo, se dedicará a investigar tortuosos e imaginarios
...4) Lady Susan
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Lady Susan is a novella by Jane Austen that offers a delightful glimpse into the author's early exploration of social satire and romantic intrigue. Set in the Regency era, the novella is presented as an epistolary narrative, composed of letters exchanged between characters, which unveils the scheming and manipulative Lady Susan Vernon.
Known for her charm and wit, Lady Susan navigates the social circles of her time with a cunning approach to...
5) The Watsons
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Jane Austen's unfinished novel‚ The Watsons tells the story of a widowed clergyman and his two sons and four daughters. The youngest daughter, Emma, returns home after being raised by a wealthy aunt. Better-educated and more genteel than her other sisters, she looks on disapprovingly at the husband-hunting of two of her sisters, and relates better to her more responsible oldest sister, Elizabeth. Various would-be suitors appear, including the boorish...
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Portuguese
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É uma verdade universalmente conhecida que Orgulho e Preconceito é uma das maiores referências do romance mundial. A obra de Jane Austen, publicada em 1813, transporta os leitores para uma trama no século XIX. Elizabeth Bennet, diferentemente do que sua mãe espera, busca casar-se por amor e não pela possibilidade de ascensão social.
Num baile em Netherfield, a jovem conhece o orgulhoso Sr. Darcy, o qual despreza a jovem, e acaba despertando...
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Start Classics
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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This charming collection by Jane Austen showcases her early writings, including several short stories, a play, and a series of letters that offer a delightful glimpse into her development as a writer. It is sometimes titled "Love and Freindship".
Written primarily in her teenage years, these pieces brim with the satirical wit and keen observation of social manners that would later define her famous novels. The compilation reveals Austen's early...
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Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Praised by critics and studied by scholars, Jane Austen's novels endure because of their popularity with readers. The author's witty and astute observations elevate her tales of parties, gossip, and romance into matters of captivating drama, offering an evocative portrait of everyday life in the towns and countryside of Regency England. Austen's premature death at the age of forty-two curtailed her legacy, and her devotees have eagerly read and
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e-artnow Editions
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2014
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Español
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Este ebook presenta "Sentido y sensibilidad (texto completo, con índice activo)" con un sumario dinámico y detallado.Sentido y sensibilidad es una novela de Jane Austen, publicada en 1811. Sus protagonistas son 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
...10) Sanditon
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Jane Austen's unfinished novel Sanditon (1817) tells the story of a quaint seaside village and its inhabitants. Charlotte Heywood is invited by Mr. and Mrs. Parker to stay the summer with them at Sanditon, where Mr. Parker spent his youth and where he now wants to create a tourist resort. While there, Charlotte gets to know and observe the many colorful residents of Sanditon, including the wealthy, twice-widowed Lady Denham; her ward, Clara Crereton,...
11) Emma
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Portuguese
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Emma Woodhouse, jovem, bonita, rica e pretensiosa, é a primeira protagonista da obra de Jane Austen cujo futuro não depende da conquista de um bom marido. Faz questão de deixar claro que será solteira para sempre. Só se preocupa em cuidar do pai e demonstrar habilidade como casamenteira, escolhendo parceiros ideais para suas amigas. Quando seu dom para decifrar as intenções íntimas dos outros se revela defeituoso, ela terá de reconsiderar...
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Collected together here are three of Jane Austen's posthumously published works; "Sanditon", "The Watsons", and "Lady Susan". These fragmentary tales show Austen experimenting with different literary styles and parodying the popular novels of her day. In "Sanditon," Austen uses the premise of an idyllic and modern seaside town to examine its inhabitants and their various social circles with her trademark sharp social observations and wit. "The Watsons"...
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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From the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility that makes this tale of two sisters in love an even more enjoyable read. Here is the complete text of the novel with more than 2,000 annotations on facing pages, including:
-Explanations of historical context
-Citations from Austen’s life, letters, and other writings
-Definitions...
-Explanations of historical context
-Citations from Austen’s life, letters, and other writings
-Definitions...
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First published in 1932, this fantastic volume contains a large collection of letters written by famous English author Jane Austen. Although on the surface a series of discussions about silk stockings, dinner menus and attending dances, and other trivial matters, these letters offer the reader unique insights in the life and mind of this great author. "The Letters of Jane Austen" is not to be missed by those who have read and enjoyed her works and...
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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From the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen’s Emma that makes her beloved tale of an endearingly inept matchmaker an even more satisfying read. Here is the complete text of the novel with more than 2,200 annotations on facing pages, including:
- Explanations of historical context
- Citations from Austen’s life, letters, and other
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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From the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen’s Persuasion that makes the beloved novel an even more satisfying and fulfilling read. Here is the complete text of Persuasion with hundreds of annotations on facing pages, including:
● Explanations of historical context
● Citations from Austen’s life, letters, and other writings
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● Explanations of historical context
● Citations from Austen’s life, letters, and other writings
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Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of loveand its threatened lossthe...
18) Emma
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Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.
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Few have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet in [this] Austen's beloved classic. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike...
20) Persuasion
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Austen's last novel is the crowning achievement of her matchless career. Her heroine, Anne Elliot, a woman of integrity, breeding and great depth of emotion, stands in stark contrast to the brutality and hypocrisy of Regency England. Includes a new Introduction by Margaret Drabble, famed novelist and editor of The Oxford Companion to the English Language.