Jane Austen
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...
3) Lady Susan
Lady Susan is the only full novel written by Jane Austen that was not published in her lifetime. Composed in the epistolary form that was popular at the time, the novel is a series of letters primarily between Lady Susan, Mrs Vernon, Mrs Vernon's mother (Lady de Courcy), Lady Susan and Mrs Johnson. The central character is remarkable in Austenian terms as she has nearly no redeeming features. A gorgeous, clever and witty woman, Lady Susan
...Este ebook presenta "Persuasión ", con un sumario dinámico y detallado.
Es la última novela escrita por Jane Austen, completada justo meses antes de su muerte. Persuasión fue publicada como trabajo póstumo en 1818.
Austen nos presenta la historia de Anne Elliot y su reencuentro con un viejo amor, Frederick Wentworth, años después de un compromiso terminado por el miedo y la presión familiar. La escritora explora los temas
...7) Emma
8) Persuasion
10) Persuasion
11) Mansfield Park
Fanny Price is born to a poor family, but is sent to her mother's rich relations to be brought up with her cousins. There she is treated as an inferior by all except her cousin Edmund, whose kindness towards her earns him her steadfast love. Fanny is quiet and obedient and does not come into her own until her elder cousins leave the estate following a scandalous play put on in their father's absence. Fanny's loyalty and love is tested by the beautiful
...Although Jane Austen is best known for novels such as Pride and Prejudice that deal with romantic entanglements and class conflicts, she was also a skilled essayist and humor writer. In Love and Freindship (sic), Austen sends up the epistolary novels that were popular in her day, as well as skewering some of the satire-worthy ideas about love and marriage that were common in the era.
EMMA
“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 very little to distress or vex her.” So begins Jane Austen’s...
Collecting three lesser-known works by one of the nineteenth century's greatest authors, Jane Austen's Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon is edited with an introduction by Margaret Drabble in Penguin Classics.
These three short works show Austen experimenting with a variety of different literary styles, from melodrama to satire, and exploring a range of social classes and settings. The early epistolary novel Lady Susan depicts