LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jane austen

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  • Emma (Wisehouse Classics - With Illustrations by H.M. Brock) (2016)
    Jane Austen
    AMMA, 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 difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners among her characters.Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, “I am g...
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    15,24 €

  • Sense and Sensibility (Wisehouse Classics - With Illustrations by H.M. Brock)
    Jane Austen
    SENSE AND SENSIBILITY is a novel by Jane Austen, and was her first published work when it appeared in 1811 under the pseudonym “A Lady”. A work of romantic fiction, better known as a comedy of manners, Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England, London and Kent between 1792 and 1797, and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. The novel ...
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    12,64 €

  • Persuasion (Wisehouse Classics - With Illustrations by H.M. Brock)
    Jane Austen
    PERSUASION is Jane Austen's last completed novel, published posthumously. She began it soon after she had finished Emma and completed it in August 1816. Persuasion was published in December 1817, but is dated 1818. The author died earlier in 1817.As the Napoleonic Wars come to an end in 1814, Admirals and Captains of the Royal Navy are put ashore, their work done. Anne Elli...
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    9,95 €

  • Sense and Sensibility (World Classics, Unabridged)
    Jane Austen
    Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to h...
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    11,28 €

  • Northanger Abbey
    Jane Austen
    The heroine of ’Northanger Abbey’ is a Gothic novel-obsessed young woman who sees intrigue and mystery everywhere. Visiting Bath with her friend Mrs. Allen, an older but flighty, irresponsible woman, Catherine Morland falls in love with Henry Tilney, a young clergyman. Believing her to be wealthy, Henry’s father invites Catherine to Northanger Abbey, the Tilney home. Greatly in...
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    15,15 €

  • Northanger Abbey
    Jane Austen
    The heroine of ’Northanger Abbey’ is a Gothic novel-obsessed young woman who sees intrigue and mystery everywhere. Visiting Bath with her friend Mrs. Allen, an older but flighty, irresponsible woman, Catherine Morland falls in love with Henry Tilney, a young clergyman. Believing her to be wealthy, Henry’s father invites Catherine to Northanger Abbey, the Tilney home. Greatly in...
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    33,14 €

  • Lady Susan
    Jane Austen
    The new hit movie Love and Friendship is based on Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, an early epistolary work by the author of Pride and Prejudice which she never submitted for publication. Lady Susan was eventually published posthumously in 1871 and has since become a classic alongside Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Mansfield Park and the rest of Austen’s cherished works. ...
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    8,93 €

  • Lady Susan
    Jane Austen
    The new hit movie Love and Friendship is based on Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, an early epistolary work by the author of Pride and Prejudice which she never submitted for publication. Lady Susan was eventually published posthumously in 1871 and has since become a classic alongside Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Mansfield Park and the rest of Austen’s cherished works. ...
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    28,78 €

  • Lady Susan
    Jane Austen
    How to Pursue the Man of Your Desires and Create DisasterBeautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks a new and advantageous marriage for herself, and at the same time attempts to push her daughter into marriage with a man she detests. Through a series of crafty maneuvers, she fills her calendar with invitations for extended visits with unsuspecting rel...
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    13,23 €

  • Love and Friendship
    Jane Austen
    Jane Austen’s Fairy Tale that Lampoons Romantic Conventions.Love and Freindship [sic] is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790. From the age of eleven until she was eighteen, Jane Austen wrote her tales in three notebooks. The notebooks still exist - one in the Bodleian Library; the other two in the British Museum. They include among others Love and Freindship, written wh...
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    15,33 €

  • Love and Friendship
    Jane Austen
    The new hit movie Love and Friendship starring Kate Beckinsale is based on two early works by Jane Austen, Lady Susan and Love and Freindship - both of which are included here. Fans of the movie will find the bulk of the plot has been taken from Lady Susan and the title from Love and Freindship. ...
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    31,20 €

  • Love and Friendship
    Jane Austen
    The new hit movie Love and Friendship starring Kate Beckinsale is based on two early works by Jane Austen, Lady Susan and Love and Freindship - both of which are included here. Fans of the movie will find the bulk of the plot has been taken from Lady Susan and the title from Love and Freindship. ...
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    12,89 €

  • Persuasion (Illustrated by Hugh Thomson)
    Jane Austen
    First published in 1818, 'Persuasion' was English novelist Jane Austen’s last completed work. The novel centers on the story of Anne Elliot, a lovely young woman who years prior had accepted the proposal for marriage from the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. Despite Frederick’s cleverness and ambition, his lower social status and lack of wealth makes him an ina...
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    11,03 €

  • Pride and Prejudice
    Jane Austen
    Sparks ignite when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets rich, eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy. But Elizabeth, and her four unmarried sisters prejudge Mr. Darcy’s genteel wit as proud, ill nature, while he battles with his pride, falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can the two lovers overcome their prejudice and their pride?The most-read novel of all time lives in thi...
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    23,23 €

  • Junior Classic - Book 15 (Emma, Jane Eyre, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Prisoner of Zenda) (Junior Classics)
    Jane Austen
    The Junior Classics series, comprising twenty titles, introduces young readers to literarymasterpieces by celebrated authors, ranging from Charles Dickens and R.L. Stevenson to LouisaM. Alcott and H.G. Wells. Te all-time popular novels packed with colourful illustrationsbring alive the lovable characters and can keep children entertained for hours. Each book inthe series has a ...
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    17,88 €

  • Junior Classic - Book 9 (Pride and Prejudice, The Devoted Friend, The Gold Bug, The Mill On the Floss) (Junior Classics)
    Jane Austen
    The Junior Classics series, comprising twenty titles, introduces young readers to literary masterpieces by celebrated authors, ranging from Charles Dickens and R.L. Stevenson to Louisa M. Alcott and H.G. Wells. The all-time popular novels packed with colourful illustrations bring alive the lovable characters and can keep children entertained for hours. Each book in the series h...
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    17,88 €

  • Pride and Prejudice (Wisehouse Classics - with Illustrations by H.M. Brock)
    Jane Austen
    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 the British Regency. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman, Mr. Bennet living in Longbourn.S...
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    13,09 €

  • Northanger Abbey (Wisehouse Classics Edition)
    Jane Austen
    NORTHANGER ABBEY was the first of Jane Austen’s novels to be completed for public¬cation, though she had previously made a start on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. According to Cassandra Austen’s Memorandum, Susan (as it was first called) was written circa 1798-99.Seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland is one of ten children of a country clergyman. Although a tombo...
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    9,26 €

  • Emma
    Jane Austen
    Virginia Woolf called Jane Austen 'the most perfect artist among women,' and Emma Woodhouse is arguably her most perfect creation. Though Austen found her heroine to be a person whom 'no one but myself will much like,' Emma is her most cleverly woven, riotously comedic, and pleasing novel of manners. ...
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    23,13 €

  • Emma
    Jane Austen
    Virginia Woolf called Jane Austen 'the most perfect artist among women,' and Emma Woodhouse is arguably her most perfect creation. Though Austen found her heroine to be a person whom 'no one but myself will much like,' Emma is her most cleverly woven, riotously comedic, and pleasing novel of manners. ...
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    37,61 €

  • Sense and Sensibility
    Jane Austen
    Jane Austen's first published novel, Sense and Sensibility is a wonderfully entertaining tale of flirtation and folly that revolves around two starkly different sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. While Elinor is thoughtful, considerate, and calm, her younger sister is emotional and wildly romantic. Both are looking for a husband, but neither Elinor's reason nor Marianne's p...
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    40,30 €

  • Pride and Prejudice
    Jane Austen
    Mrs. Bennet has but one aim in life: to find a good match for each of her five daughters. Mr. Bennet, a mild and indolent man given to witty cynicisms, refuses to take this vulgar project seriously; he ridicules his wife instead of giving her support in her schemes. One of the daughters, Elizabeth, becomes prejudiced against her future suitor, Darcy, because of his arrogance an...
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    40,27 €

  • Pride and Prejudice (Qualitas Classics)
    Jane Austen
    Pride and Prejudice was written by Jane Austen and first published in 1813. The novel follows the principal character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, moral rightness, education, and marriage in her aristocratic society of early 19th century England. Although set in early Victorian England, the story retains a fascination for modern readers as r...
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    18,02 €

  • Pride and Prejudice
    Jane Austen
    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 ... ...
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    19,49 €

  • Persuasion
    Jane Austen
    In her final novel, as in her earlier ones, Jane Austen uses a love story to explore and gently satirize social pretensions and emotional confusion. Persuasion follows the romance of Anne Elliot and naval officer Frederick Wentworth. They were happily engaged until Anne’s friend, Lady Russell, persuaded her that Frederick was 'unworthy.' Now, eight years later, Frederick return...
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    40,41 €

  • Emma (with an Introduction by Austin Dobson)
    Jane Austen
    First published at the end of 1815, Jane Austen’s 'Emma' is the story of Emma Woodhouse, a young girl from a good home that does not need the financial support of a husband and is determined not to marry. Emma however is not opposed to the idea of marriage for others and is determined to play matchmaker between the local citizens. Greatly overestimating her own matchmaking abil...
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    15,67 €

  • Pride and Prejudice (Illustrated by Charles Edmund Brock with an Introduction by William Dean Howells)
    Jane Austen
    First published in 1813, 'Pride and Prejudice' is a story set in the English countryside outside of London during the early 19th century which centers on the life of Elizabeth Bennet, the second of five sisters who are all unmarried. When a wealthy and sociable young gentleman, Charles Bingley, rents the nearby manor of Netherfield Park the opportunity to find husbands presents...
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    14,50 €

  • Sense and Sensibility (with and Introduction by Reginald Brimley Johnson)
    Jane Austen
    Jane Austen’s first published novel, 'Sense and Sensibility' is the classic coming of age story of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, who have contrasting temperaments. On the surface Elinor, the older sister represents sense, or reason, while Marianne represents sensibility, or emotion; however upon closer examination we find that they both exhibit varying aspects of e...
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    13,36 €

  • Gooth ha Gowvreus
    Jane Austen / Nicholas Williams
    Yth yw "Gooth ha Gowvreus" an gwella aswonys a whegh novel Jane Austen hag y feu va dyllys in Sowsnek kyns oll i'n vledhen 1813. Talvejys brâs yw an whedhel-ma dre rêson a'n pyctour glew usy ev ow ry a'n bobel ino hag inwedh awos y narracyon gesedhus. Yma an novel ow terivas fatell wrug Elisabet Benet metya gans Mêster Darcy rag an kensa prës hag ev dystowgh dhe vos...
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    22,63 €

  • Pride and Prejudice
    Jane Austen
    'Pride and Prejudice' is the best known of Jane Austen’s six novels, and was first published in 1813. It is highly regarded for the acute description of its characters and because of its ironic style. The novel tells about the relation­ship which ensues when Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr Darcy. There are many notable characters in the novel, in particular beautiful and affectionate...
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    22,66 €