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Pride and Prejudice is a romance novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story charts the emotional development of the protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet, who learns the error of making hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between the superficial and the essential. The comedy...

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These two short works show Austen experimenting with a variety of different literary styles and exploring a range of social classes and settings. Written in the last months of Austen’s life, the uncompleted novel Sanditon is set in a newly established seaside resort, with a glorious cast of hypochondriacs...

This is the sequel to Pride & Prejudice Vol 1 by Jane Austin When Bingley leaves the countryside suddenly and makes no attempts to contact Jane anymore, the young woman is heartbroken. Elizabeth, who had thought well of Bingley, believes that there is something amiss in the way that he...

Elizabeth Bennet is a country gentleman's daughter in 19th Century England. She is one of five daughters, a plight that her father bears as best he can with common sense and a general disinterest in the silliness of his daughters. Elizabeth is his favourite because of her level-headed approach to...

There could have been no two hearts so open, and no classic so beloved as Jane Austen’s Persuasion. The thoughtful and so often scathing commentary of British society, interwoven with the enduring and long-burning romance between Anne Elliot and Captain Frederick Wentworth has been a favourite amongst...

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. Sanditon (1817) is an unfinished novel by the English writer...

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...

“It is not everyone,” said Elinor, “who has your passion for dead leaves.” To wish is to hope and to hope is to expect. Expecting Jane Austen’s thoughtful classic Sense and Sensibility to delight and ensnare is just what readers have been doing for generations, and they have not been...

This is the sequel to Pride & Prejudice Vol 2 by Jane Austin and the third and final book in the series When Bingley leaves the countryside suddenly and makes no attempts to contact Jane anymore, the young woman is heartbroken. Elizabeth, who had thought well of Bingley, believes that there...

Perhaps as early as 1787, Austen began to write poems, stories, and plays for her own and her family's amusement. Austen later compiled "fair copies" of these early works into three bound notebooks, now referred to as the "Juvenilia," containing pieces originally written between 1787 and 1793. (from Wikipedia) . The 3rd volume of juvenilia includes: * Evelyn * Catharine

Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 romantic novel by Jane Austen. It charts the emotional development of the protagonist Elizabeth Bennet, who learns the error of making hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between the superficial and the essential. The comedy of the writing lies in...

Las obras juveniles de Jane Austen (1775-1817) están reunidas en tres cuadernos que la autora llamó "Volúmenes" y numeró del I al III. Austen escribió estos textos entre 1787 y 1793, entre sus 12 y 18 años de edad.

First published in 1813 by Thomas Egerton, Pride and Prejudice was originally drafted by Austen during a particularly creative period before 1800. The essential plot concerns the marriage plans of Elizabeth Bennett and how they are shaped by her initial prejudice against the proud and reserved Mr Darcy....