Jane Austen - Libros y biografía

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...

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...

Persuadida a tomar uma decisão equivocada, Anne Eliot protagonizou a obra "Persuasão", de Jane Austen, publicada em 1817, a qual narra os vários e inefáveis sentimentos que a paixão pode provocar. A alma...

Jane Austen (1775-1817), uma das romancistas mais importantes da literatura universal, viu os quatro romances que publicou em vida caírem na graça do público. Porém, são pouco conhecidos entre nós os...

Tímida, recatada e por vezes quase invisível, a pequena Fanny Price é resgatada de uma vida de privações junto a sua família em Portsmouth para ser criada pelos tios na opulência e fartura de Mansfield...

Neste romance, Jane Austen procede a uma profunda introspecção das suas personagens. E, como noutros livros seus, a ironia é posta ao serviço dessa compre- ensão. A chegada de vários jovens marca uma...

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...

Sir Walter Elliot von Kellynch Hall in der Grafschaft Somerset war ein Mann, der zu seiner Unterhaltung nie ein anderes Buch in die Hand nahm, als das Adelsverzeichnis. Hier fand er Beschäftigung für...

Es ist eine allgemein anerkannte Wahrheit, daß ein lediger Mann von einigem Vermögen unbedingt auf der Suche nach einer Lebensgefährtin sein muß. Welcher Art die Gefühle und Wünsche eines solchen Mannes...

Emma Woodhouse, hübsch, klug und reich, im Besitz eines gemütlichen Heims sowie einer glücklichen Veranlagung, vereinigte sichtlich einige der besten Gaben des Lebens auf sich. Sie war schon fast einundzwanzig...

Sammelband mit drei Romanen · Stolz und Vorurteil · Emma · Überredung oder Anne Elliot

The final novel by the acclaimed writer places heroine Anne Elliot, a woman of integrity and deep emotion, against the brutality and hypocrisy of Regency England.

Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871. Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for...

About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby...

Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in December 1815, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome,...

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with...

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the character of her father and mother, her own person and disposition,...

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...

Pride And Prejudice, the story of Mrs. Bennet's attempts to marry off her five daughters is one of the best-loved and most enduring classics in English literature. Excitement fizzes through the Bennet...

First published in 1813 and selling over 20 million copies, this novel is considered as the best love story eever written.

Pride And Prejudice, the story of Mrs. Bennet's attempts to marry off her five daughters is one of the best-loved and most enduring classics in English literature. Excitement fizzes through the Bennet...

Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in December 1815, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome,...

This carefully crafted ebook is formatted with a functional and detailed table of contents. Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set...

Northanger Abbey was written in 1797-98 under a different title. The manuscript was revised around 1803 and sold to a London publisher, Crosbie & Co., who sold it back in 1816. The Signet Classic...

Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a...

It is estimated that Jane Austen was about twelve when she began her pen work with a series of comic stories, some of which she did not even complete, and which are now known as her Juvenilia, her youthful...

It is estimated that Jane Austen was about twelve when she began her pen work with a series of comic stories, some of which she did not even complete, and which are now known as her Juvenilia, her youthful...

MY DEAR BROTHER,—I can no longer refuse myself the pleasure of profiting by your kind invitation when we last parted of spending some weeks with you at Churchhill, and, therefore, if quite convenient...

Elinor and Marianne are two daughters of Mr. Dashwood by his second wife. They have a younger sister, Margaret, and an older half-brother named John. When their father dies, the family estate passes to...

Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and...