This eBook edition of «PERSUASION» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Anne Elliot is a young Englishwoman of 27 years, whose family is moving to lower their expenses and get out of debt, at the same time as the wars come to an end, putting sailors on shore. They rent their home to an Admiral and his wife. Brother of Admiral's wife is Navy Captain Frederick Wentworth, a man who had been engaged to Anne when she was 19, and now...
This eBook edition of «Sense and Sensibility & Pride and Prejudice» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "Pride and Prejudice" – Mr. Bennet of the Longbourn estate has five daughters, but his property is entailed, meaning that none of the girls can inherit it. His wife has no fortune, so it is imperative that at least one of the girls marry well in order to support the others on his death. The story charts the emotional...
La autora inglesa Jane Austen (1775-1817) es una de las voces más reconocidas de la literatura de habla inglesa, y quizás de la literatura universal. Sus obras fueron consideradas adelantadas a su tiempo por la forma de abordar temas como la percepción del rol de la mujer en la Inglaterra de transición entre los siglos XVIII y XIX, el matrimonio como instrumento de control social y el hermetismo y sectarismo de la alta sociedad inglesa.Siempre con una saludable dosis de humor e ironía, Austen...
Der Vater von Henry und Eleanor, General Tilney, lädt Catherine Morland ein, ein paar Wochen mit der Familie auf Northanger Abbey, einer früheren Abtei, zu verbringen. Sie nimmt die Einladung begeistert an. Das düstere Gebäude erregt ihre Phantasie sofort ungemein. Catherine ist sich sicher, dass das alte Anwesen ein dunkles Geheimnis birgt…
Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Jane Austen which are Pride And Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Jane Austen (16 December 1775 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century....
Die siebzehnjährige Pfarrerstochter Catherine Morland ist eine leidenschaftliche Leserin von Schauer-Romanen und hofft darauf, dass ihr Leben auch einmal so aufregend sein wird, wie das der Romanfiguren. Im vornehmen Badeort Bath, wo sie sich Dank der Güte des Ehepaars Allen sechs Wochen aufhalten darf, macht sie die Bekanntschaft des faszinierenden jungen Gentlemans Henry Tilney und seiner liebreizenden Schwester Eleanor
Of all Jane Austens heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. Pride and Prejudices Lizzie Bennet has more wit and sparkle; Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey more imagination; and Sense and Sensibilitys Elinor Dashwood certainly more sense–but Emma is lovable precisely because she is so imperfect. Austen only completed six novels in her lifetime, of which five feature young women whose chances for making a good marriage depend...
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. <p> Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, Call me Ishmael, the first sentence of Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage–tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking...
Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly...