Jane Austen
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When young Fanny Price comes to live with her aunt and uncle Bertram at Mansfield Park, it is because of the outcast state of her own parents. Her dreadful aunt and three cousins become her enemies, making her life miserable and causing Fanny to grow up quiet and shy. When the arrival of the Crawfords upsets the Bertram household, the young people become involved in dangerous plots to marry to better their station. Fanny has fallen in love with her...
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When Elizabeth Bennet meets Fitzwilliam Darcy for the first time at a ball, she writes him off as an arrogant and obnoxious man. He not only acts like an insufferable snob, but she also overhears him rejecting the very idea of asking her for a dance! As life pits them against each other again and again, Darcy begins to fall for Elizabeth's wit and intelligence and Elizabeth begins to question her feelings about Darcy. But when Darcy saves her youngest...
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Jane Austen's first published novel, sparkling with wit and artistry, captures the inequities of birth, class, and marriage faced by the sisters Dashwood. Published in 1811, Sense and Sensibility has delighted generations of readers with its masterfully crafted portrait of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Forced to leave their home after their father's death, Elinor and Marianne must rely on making good marriages as their means of support....
4) Emma
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"The culmination of Jane Austen's genius, a sparkling comedy of love and marriage--now in a stunning 200th-anniversary Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Beautiful, clever, rich--and single--Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to...
5) Persuasion
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"Jane Austen's final novel is her most mature and wickedly satirical. It follows the story of Anne Elliott, a teenager engaged to a seemingly ideal man, Frederick Wentworth. But after being persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that he is too poor to be a suitable match, Anne ends their engagement. When they are reacquainted eight years later, their circumstances are transformed: Frederick is returning triumphantly from the Napoleonic War, while Anne's...
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When young Catherine Morland is invited to Northanger Abbey, a house which seems to come straight from the pages of a Gothic novel, a world of adventure and romance opens up. Over the course of an eventful visit, Catherine learns to see peopole for what they really are and to distinguish reality from fiction.
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Includes the unabridged text of Austen's classic novel plus a complete study guide that helps readers gain a thorough understanding of the work's content and context. The comprehensive guide includes chapter-by-chapter summaries, explanations and discussions of the plot, question-and-answer sections, author biography, analytical paper topics, list of characters, bibliography, and more.
8) Lady Susan
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Recently widowed, the unscrupulous and beautiful Lady Susan Vernon is determined to scheme her way through high society in the hope of a profitable new match -- all while trying to marry off her unfortunate daughter.
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"Orgullo y prejuicio" es una obra maestra de Jane Austen, publicada por primera vez en 1813. Este clásico de la literatura inglesa se desarrolla en la Inglaterra de finales del siglo XVIII y principios del XIX, y explora las complejidades de las relaciones sociales y la condición femenina a través de la historia de Elizabeth Bennet y su relación con el orgulloso Mr. Darcy. El estilo literario de Austen combina ironía aguda y un agudo sentido...
10) Sanditon
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Young Charlotte Heywood arrives in Sanditon, a newly established seaside resort, with the Parkers: patrons and enthusiastic promoters of the town. Just as the town seeks to reinvent itself as a fashionable destination, Charlotte Heywood attempts to begin anew amongst its residents.
As she begins to settle into Sanditon society, with the Parkers and the rich...
11) 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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This audiobook contains the complete novels of Jane Austen in the chronological order of their original publication. - Lady Susan (starts at Chapter 1)
- Sense and Sensibility (starts at Chapter 44)
- Pride and Prejudice (starts at Chapter 96)
- Mansfield Park (starts at Chapter 159)
- Emma (starts at Chapter 209)
- Persuasion (starts at Chapter 266)
- Northanger Abbey (starts at Chapter 292)
- The Watsons (starts at Chapter 326)
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Three books in one volume by the author beloved for her smart, witty novels of Regency England.
This collection of Jane Austen’s novels includes three timeless classics.
Sense and Sensibility: Torn between reason and passion, obligation and impulse, two sisters search for love in eighteenth-century England.
Mansfield Park: A shy young woman of modest means is sent to live with her wealthy relatives—and...
This collection of Jane Austen’s novels includes three timeless classics.
Sense and Sensibility: Torn between reason and passion, obligation and impulse, two sisters search for love in eighteenth-century England.
Mansfield Park: A shy young woman of modest means is sent to live with her wealthy relatives—and...
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"The History of England" is a 1791 novel by English author Jane Austen. Written when she was just fifteen years old (it includes her original spelling quirks), it is a humorous burlesque on the popular history books contemporarily used in school. Within it, Austen comically mimics the style of writing characteristic of these books, mocking the dubious objectivity of the historians in question. With outrageous characters and Austen's famously sharp...
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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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Offering hundreds of beautiful images, this is the perfect Austen collection. All the novels, each and every short story, poem, play and letter with much, much more! This edition is simply outstanding for admirers of literature's finest female writer. (Current version: 3)
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SmartPass gives students instant access to their own personal tutor, the PassMaster, in this vivid full-cast presentation of Pride and Prejudice, with guided commentary and analysis created by experienced, enthusiastic teachers. This timeless classic of gossip and matchmaking is presented as exquisite drama that questions and analyses the values and beliefs of Austen's own times, to understand the 'blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd' world of the...
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This Audiobook contains the following works : 1. 1984 by George Orwell Start at Chapters 1 2. Animal Farm by George OrwellSt art at Chapters 26 3. The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason Start at Chapters 36 4. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain Start at Chapters 55 5. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Start at Chapters 100 6. Persuasion by Jane Austen Start at Chapters 153 7. The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft Start...
