Jane Austen
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
30 sound discs (approximately 35 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Persuasion: "Anne Elliot is a young woman of perfect breeding and unwavering integrity. Austen wrote of her, 'She is almost too good for me.' Persuasion is the story of Anne and Captain Wentworth and their long awaited union. The world of country gentry in Regency England serves as a setting while portraying the many aspects of proper society - its failings and humor"--Container.
Pride and prejudice: "A delightful novel about 'how girls catch husbands.'...
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Series
Language
English
Description
This was a period in which to experiment and to develop character and style. Their work moved in very different directions: in her first short burlesques, Jane Austen exhibits a merciless wit as she lampoons human vanities and vices, later sharpened in 'The Three Sisters' and 'Catherine' to reveal a maturer moral perspective.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
364 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Sus protagonistas las jóvenes hermanas Dashwood, quienes, desde caracteres contrapuestos, comparten el mismo afán por la búsqueda de la felicidad. Elinor, tranquila y paciente, confÃa en salvar con su discreción los obstáculos que impiden su relación con Edward Ferrars. Impetuosa y extravertida, Marianne, por el contrario, no duda en dejarse conquistar por el seductor Willoughby. --
Two sisters of opposing temperaments share the pangs of tragic...
46) Emma
Language
English
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Description
Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town, In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xxxii, 459 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The culmination of Jane Austen's genius, a sparkling comedy of love and marriage--now in a stunning 200th-anniversary Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Beautiful, clever, rich--and single--Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
xxxv, 742 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
This volume is an annotated edition of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility," complete with more than 2,000 annotations that include definitions and clarifications, multiple maps, historical context, and more.
57) Minor works
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1988.
Physical Desc
vi, 476 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimile ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gathers juvenilea, sketches, comic verses, and three prayers written by the eighteenth-century English author.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Emma Woodhouse and Mr. Knightley won the literary world's heart 200 years ago when Jane Austen first penned the story of their friendship-turned-love.
Emma is the young, rich, beautiful heroine with too much time on her hands and an overactive imagination; Mr. Knightley is her long-suffering friend who is always trying to steer her in the right direction. Their love story is one of deep, dedicated affection blooming into passion.
But what about
...Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The best-selling author of The Thorn Birds presents a sequel to Pride and Prejudice that finds the willful third Bennet sister setting out in her late thirties in pursuit of adventure while her sisters worry about her at home.