Jane Austen. - Libros y biografía

"I cannot imagine," said Sir Godfrey to his Lady, "why we continue in such deplorable Lodgings as these, in a paltry Market-town, while we have 3 good houses of our own situated in some of the finest...

What do we usually find in Jane Austen's novels? At least one girl with a conflict and a handsome man or two to rush in and save the day. If nothing else, Jane was a romantic through and through!Catharine...

Do you love humorous and amusing stories? Then you will love this short story written by none other than Jane Austen when she was still a young teenager."In a retired part of the County of Sussex, there...

´It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.` So opens Jane Austen´s second novel Pride and Prejudice, which was first published...

Smart, sassy and strong-willed Lizzie Bennett is facing a crisis: she and her sisters need to marry, and marry rich, otherwise they face losing their home. While her amazing older sister Jane is swept...

'Sanditon' (1817) is written by the renowned English novelist Jane Austen. The story takes place in the fictional town of Sanditon on the Sussex coast, where Mr Parker, a local businessman, is determined...

Jane Austen famously wrote: "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like."Emma Woodhouse is perhaps Jane Austen's most seductive and complicated character, filled with intrigue...

Tucked away in a museum, lies the original notebooks of a teenage Jane Austen. Within the pages can be found the early writings of a girl who would go on to shape the literary landscape for years to come....

Do you love Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice? How about Persuasion and Emma? Then you will love her unfinished novel "The Watsons". The story revolves around the life and misfortunes of Emma Watson after...

'The Letters of Jane Austen' (1892) is a unique literary treasure that allows readers a peek into the mind of the celebrated and much-loved author, Jane Austen. It is an intimate look at the author's...

'The Beautiful Cassandra and Other Stories' (1793) was written by the renowned English novelist Jane Austen, best-known for her novels 'Sense and Sensibility' (1811) and 'Pride and Prejudice' (1813).This...

Written by a young Jane Austen, 'Frederic and Elfrida' is a short story that beautifully showcases Austen as the original queen of wit. Penned at around the age of twelve, this is one of the earliest...

In a new audio adaptation of some of Austen's lesser known works, Avita Jay brings to life the wit and satire of one of England's greatest authors. In Austen's final and unfinished novel, Charlotte Heywood...

"Lady Susan" is perhaps the shortest and least known of Austen's novels, dealing with the obnoxious flirting and social manners of Susan Vernon, a young widow who comes to visit her in-laws. Soon, a romance...

Mr Darcy and Miss Bennet may be one of the most cherished love stories in English literature, but did you know, Fanny Price was Austen's favourite? She's also one of literature's biggest controversies,...

Filled with macabre mansions, things that go bump in the night and a healthy dose of farce, 'Northanger Abbey' is Jane Austen's first novel and a satirical parody of the Gothic tradition. As far as being...

"All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone." Twenty-seven-year-old Anne Elliot is...

The point of view of a woman with such an environment must naturally be circumscribed and narrow; and in this Miss Austen's charm consists. Seeing little, she painted what she saw with absolute fidelity...

How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my Daughter a regular detail of the Misfortunes and Adventures of your Life, have you said "No, my friend never will I comply with your...

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...

Mansfield Park shows the dark side of Jane Austen. Mansfield Park is built on the proceeds of the slave trade in the British home. Every literate person at the time of Austen knew the name of the most...

Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. The story of Miss Woodhouse—busybody, know-it-all, and general...

Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, though she had previously made a start on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. The novel was further revised...

Die junge Anne Elliot, mittlere Tochter eines Baronets, hat es nicht leicht. Seit sie die Verlobung mit ihrer großen Liebe Frederick Wentworth aufgrund seiner nicht standesgemäßen Herkunft gelöst hat,...

EDIZIONE REVISIONATA 11/02/2020. Edizione migliorata con IMMAGINI originali delle prime edizioni. Pubblicato anonimamente nel 1815, il romanzo scritto da Jane Austen racconta la storia di Emma Woodhouse,...

Miss Emma Woodhouse of Hartfield lives in the small town of Highbury, and is young, pretty, and rich. Though she has decided she will never marry, Emma takes credit for matchmaking her friend and former...

Love and Friendship, and Other Early Works Like many women authors at the time, Austen published her books anonymously. At the time, the ideal roles for a woman were as wife and mother, and writing for...

Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen presumably written in 1794, but published posthumously only in 1871. Being one of Jane Austen's early works, we can still consider it an experimentation...

"Lady Susan" is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871.

Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are two sisters with opposite characters. Elinor, the eldest, is 19 and represents the part of "reason" indicated by the title. Marianne is 17 years old and instead represents...