Austen Jane: 821 books

Deux jours après le retour de leur père, Jane et Elisabeth se promenant dans le verger, derrière la maison, virent venir à elles la femme de charge de leur mère. — Je vous demande pardon, Madame, dit-elle à Jane, mais je croyois que vous aviez reçu quelques bonnes nouvelles de la...

Zwei ungleiche Schwestern Bereits in Jane Austens erstem Roman von 1811 dreht sich alles ums »match-making«. Elinor Dashwood, eine rationale junge Frau von unerschütterlicher Selbstdisziplin, und ihre impulsive, schwärmerische jüngere Schwester Marianne können über Mangel an Verehrern...

'A Collection of Letters' is an early and not well-known work by the famous author of such great novels like 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Sense and Sensibility', 'Emma', 'Northanger Abbey', 'Mansfield Park' and others. The book is written in the form of an epistolary novel what makes it seem to be very...

Austen's short epistolary novel has become a classic account of connections and relationships in Pre-Victorian British polite society. Recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon is determined not to let her recent loss get in the way of finding a suitor.

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.’ Written at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Persuasion is a tale of love, heartache...

The Reverend John Watson, who, for the space of twenty years, was the incumbent of the village of Winston, had not always been such an indolent invalid as he appeared to those who only knew him during the last ten years of that time. When he was inducted into the living, he was a husband and the father...

Esta novela epistolar consta de 41 cartas escritas por y para los protagonistas principales. Es una obra de juventud, completa, pero que nunca la autora presentó para su publicación. Describe los planes de la protagonista, la recientemente viuda Lady Susan, mientras se busca un nuevo marido y a...

Mr Darcy *heart eyes emoji* Lizzie Bennet. But will she swipe right? Delight in Austen’s intelligent wit and piercing social commentary, distillled and translated into the beautiful, modern language of emoji. Because there is no enjoyment like reading. Except maybe texting.

When she is 10 years old, Fanny Price is sent from her poor and large family to Mansfield Park, where she is to be raised by her wealthy aunt and uncle, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram. Though she grows up in the same home as her four older cousins, she is often treated as a poor and ignorant relation,...

HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘The real evils, indeed, of Emma’s situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself…’ Beautiful, rich, self-assured and witty, Emma Woodhouse...

'Of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a Man of his age! - just old enough to be formal, ungovernable and to have the Gout - too old to be agreable, and too young to die.' The scheming and unscrupulous Lady Susan is unlike any Austen heroine you've met in this fascinating early novella. One...

Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian–Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners among her characters an wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like." In the first sentence, she introduces the title character...

Over 30 classic romantic novels and stories with active table of contents.The book includes the following authorThe Bronte FamilyF. Scott FitzgeraldLouisa May AlcottJane Austen

(Steventon, Gran Bretaña, 1775-Winchester, id., 1817) Novelista británica. Su padre, un clérigo protestante, era rector de la parroquia de Steventon. Séptima hija de una familia de ocho hermanos, su padre se encargó personalmente de su educación. En 1801,...