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  • LADY SUSAN
    JANE AUSTEN
    Lady Susan is a selfish, attractive woman, who tries to trap the best possible husband while maintaining a relationship with a married man. She subverts all the standards of the romantic novel: she has an active role, she's not only beautiful but intelligent and witty, and her suitors are significantly younger than she is. Although the ending includes a traditional reward for ...

    $9.00

  • SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
    JANE AUSTEN
    A work of romantic fiction, Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England in 1792 through 1797, and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, daughters of their father Henry's second wife, Mrs. Dashwood. The sisters are starkly different from each other; Elinor is the epitome of prudence and self-control while Marianne embodies emotion and en...

    $19.00

  • NORTHANGER ABBEY
    JANE AUSTEN
    The story's heroine, seventeen year old Catherine Morland, is invited by her neighbours, the Allens, to accompany them to visit Bath for a number of weeks. While, initially, the excitement of experiencing such a place was dampened by her lack of other acquaintances, she is soon introduced to an intriguing young gentleman named Henry Tilney, though her attention was quickly take...

    $19.00

  • THE LETTERS OF JANE AUSTEN
    JANE AUSTEN
    Reading Jane Austen is nothing as much as looking into a mirror held to English life of her times, mainly life of home, involving men and women, characters and values - and most of it, with sense valued high, transcends time and place, so isn't strange or foreign to readers even couple of centuries later. Reading letters written by the author, personal and mostly to family memb...

    $39.70

  • THE WATSONS BY JANE AUSTEN, CONCLUDED BY L. OULTON
    JANE AUSTEN
    Continued in the style of Jane Austen, this version takes notes made by Cassandra and Jane's niece Catherine and continues the story in a believable way. You can barely see the join! No more characters are introduced and the storyline follows a style with features that can be followed through to other areas in Jane's books and experience . Well worth reading. It could almost ha...

    $39.70

  • LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP
    JANE AUSTEN
    Love and Friendship is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790. Written in epistolary form like her later unpublished novella, Lady Susan, Love and Friendship is thought to be one of the tales she wrote for the amusement of her family. It was dedicated to her cousin Eliza de Feuillide, known as "La Comtesse de Feuillide". The instalments, written as letters from the heroine...

    $39.70

  • LADY SUSAN
    JANE AUSTEN
    Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871. Lady Susan Vernon, a beautiful and charming recent widow, visits her brother- and sister-in-law, Charles and Catherine Vernon, with little advance notice at Churchill, their country residence. Catherine is far from pleased, as Lady Susan had tried to prevent her marriag...

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  • EMMA
    JANE AUSTEN
    Emma gilt als Meisterwerk der britischen Schriftstellerin Jane Austen und wird zur Weltliteratur gezählt. Mit ihrer Hauptfigur Emma Woodhouse schildert die Autorin den Reifungsprozess einer privilegierten und intelligenten Frau anfangs des 19. Jahrhunderts, die mit ihrer verfehlten Wahrnehmung anderen schadet und schließlich ihren Platz in der Gesellschaft finden kann. Jane Aus...

    $39.70

  • JANE AUSTEN: NOVELS, LETTERS AND MEMOIRS
    LOUISE ROSS / JANE AUSTEN
    First published in 1995. Here, republished for the first time,is the first edition text of Jane Austen's much loved classic masterpieces. A rare and inaccessible resource for most scholars, the first editions are unique documents in the history of English literature.  This volume IV includes Northanger Abbey and Persuasion with a new introduction by David Gilson. ...

    $3,000.00

  • EMMA
    JANE AUSTEN
    Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like." In the very first sentence she introduces the title character as "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich." Emma, however, is also rather spoiled; she greatly overestimates her own matchmaking abilities; and she is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's...

    $19.00

  • THE WATSONS
    JANE AUSTEN
    Mr. Watson is a widowed clergyman with two sons and four daughters. The youngest daughter, Emma, has been brought up by a wealthy aunt and is consequently better educated and more refined than her sisters. But when her aunt contracts a foolish second marriage, Emma is obliged to return to her father's house. There she is chagrined by the crude and reckless husband-hunting of tw...

    $9.00

  • PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
    JANE AUSTEN
    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 early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London. ...

    $19.00

  • PERSUASION
    JANE AUSTEN
    Anne Elliot is the overlooked middle daughter of the vain Sir Walter Elliot, and her elder sister, Elizabeth, resembles her father in temperament and delights in the fact that as the eldest daughter she can assume her mother's former position in their rural neighborhood. Anne's younger sister, Mary, is a nervous, clinging woman who has made an unspectacular marriage to the heir...

    $19.00

  • MANSFIELD PARK
    JANE AUSTEN
    Fanny Price is a young girl from a relatively poor family, raised by her rich uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, at Mansfield Park. She grows up with her four cousins, Tom, Edmund, Maria and Julia, but is always treated as inferior to them; only Edmund shows her real kindness. He is also the most virtuous of the siblings: Maria and Julia are vain and spoiled, while To...

    $19.00

  • SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
    JANE AUSTEN
    Torn between reason and passion, obligation and impulse, two sisters search for love in eighteenth-century England Although they are as close as sisters can be, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood could not be more different. Elinor is reasonable beyond her nineteen years; Marianne’s feelings are as ungovernable as the wind. But both girls are about to learn how powerful and devastati...

    $85.00

  • PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
    JANE AUSTEN
    Jane Austen’s classic comedy of manners is one of the most enduring love stories in English literature In a remote Hertfordshire village in the early nineteenth century, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have a problem. Or rather, five vivacious, headstrong problems: Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine, and Lydia.   Mr. Bennet loves his daughters dearly, but spends more time with his nose burie...

    $85.00

  • NORTHANGER ABBEY
    JANE AUSTEN
    Jane Austen’s gripping first novel of love and marriage The well-bred Miss Catherine Morland always seems to have her nose stuck in a book, and the Gothic classics are her favorites. During the winter social season, she catches the eyes of two men: the sweet and witty Henry Tilney and the vain John Thorpe. When Catherine is invited to the Tilney family estate of Northanger Abbe...

    $85.00

  • SENTIDO Y SENSIBILIDAD
    AUSTEN JANE
    A través del contraste de caracteres de dos hermanas, una todo razonamiento y juicio (el sentido) y la otra toda pasión y emoción (la sensibilidad), así como las vicisitudes de sus amores, la autora inglesa Jane Austen nos ha legado una acabada pintura de la sociedad de su tiempo. Sus reacciones, penas y alegrías, en las que está patente siempre el triunfo del amor con una conc...
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    $130.00

  • MANSFIELD PARK
    AUSTEN JANE
    Fanny Price es una niña todavía cuando sus tíos la acogen en su mansión de Mansfield Park, rescatándola de una vida de estrecheces y de necesidades. Allí, ante su mirada amedrentada, desfilará un mundo de ocio y de refinamiento en el que las inocentes diversiones alimentarán maquinaciones y estrategias de seducción. Ese mundo oculta una verdad peligrosa y sólo Fanny, desde su s...
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    $430.00

  • ORGULLO Y PREJUICIO
    AUSTEN JANE
    Orgullo y prejuicio es, junto con Sentido y sensibilidad, la novela más conocida de Jane Austen. En ella se critica ferozmente las convenciones sociales y el abismo entre clases. Cuenta la historia de Elizabeth Bennet, segunda de cinco hermanas de una familia de pequeños propietarios rurales, que saben que su futuro depende de la posibilidad de hacer una buena boda. Cuando el s...
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    $125.00

  • LA ABADIA DE NORTHANGER
    JANE AUSTEN
    La abadía de Northanger es el trabajo más libre y heterodoxo de Jane Austen. Aunque fue su primera obra, el destino y un editor harto negligente quisieron que apareciera despues de su muerte. Y esto es relevante, porque en cierto modo La abadía de Northanger es el Quijote de las novelas de fantasmas, tanto por la actitud de su protagonista, Catherine Morland, una joven fantasio...
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    $499.00

  • SENTIDO Y SENSIBILIDAD
    AUSTEN, JANE
    Nueva traducción de una de las novelas más populares de Jane Austen, la autora de Orgullo y prejuicio y Emma. Tras la muerte repentina del padre, la familia Dashwood queda desamparada. La novela sigue los avatares de esta familia, orientando la atención especialmente hacia las peripecias de sus dos hermanas mayores, que encarnan posturas vitales diametralmente opuestas: Si Elin...
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    $298.00

  • LADY SUSAN Y OTRAS NOVELAS
    JANE AUSTEN
    Además de sus seis grandes novelas, todas ellas publicadas en Alianza Editorial, Jane Austen escribió también historias de menor extensión en las que no resultan menos... Leer másAdemás de sus seis grandes novelas, todas ellas publicadas en Alianza Editorial, Jane Austen escribió también historias de menor extensión en las que no resultan menos reconocibles ni brillantes las cu...
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    $375.00

  • PERSUASIÓN
    AUSTEN, JANE
    Precursora destacada de la novela moderna, Jane Austen (1775-1817) se distingue por el penetrante e irónico retrato que, en su condición de mujer y escritora, realiza de la sociedad en que le tocó vivir, sus convenciones, sus mecanismos y sus consecuencias, con una sutilísima inteligencia que a menudo suele hacerlo pasar inadvertido. La protagonista de "Persuasión" es Anne Elli...
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    $349.00

  • PERSUASION
    AUSTEN JANE
    Jane Austen es heredera de los logros de la novela inglesa del siglo XVIII, pero al mismo tiempo crea un estilo nuevo de novela más breve, concentrada e intensa, y exhibe en sus dos últimas obras un dominio de recursos narrativos en la expresión de la interioridad que se adelanta a su época. El realismo económico de Jane Austen, la implicación de sus primeras obras en los debat...
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    $449.00

  • CLASSIC BRITISH LOVE STORIES
    EMILY BRONTË / JANE AUSTEN / THOMAS HARDY / CHARLOTTE BRONTË
    These heart-soaring tales of romance and tragedy are widely considered four of the finest novels in English literature.   Wuthering Heights is an immortal story of love and obsession on the stormy Yorkshire moors. The fate of the Earnshaw family is forever changed when they adopt a dark-skinned orphan boy named Heathcliff. As the years pass, Heathcliff and young Catherine Earns...

    $149.00

  • EMMA
    JANE AUSTEN
    An enchanting comedy of errors, Emma remains a classic two centuries after it was first published. Emma Woodhouse is a privileged young woman whose greatest pleasure in life lies in matchmaking for anyone but herself. Written, by Austen’s own admission, as “a heroine whom no one but myself will much like,” Emma’s charm and wit exist in constant tension with her capacity for sel...

    $85.00

  • MANSFIELD PARK
    JANE AUSTEN
    A shy young woman discovers her true power in this poignant love story from one of the world’s most cherished authors The eldest of nine children born to a naval lieutenant with a meager pension, Fanny Price is sent to live with wealthy relatives at Mansfield Park. Only ten years old, she is nervous around her rich cousins and uncomfortable in their grand house. And as the year...

    $85.00

  • AMOR E AMIZADE
    JANE AUSTEN
    Amor e amizade foi escrito por uma jovem Jane Austen, em 1790. Dos onze aos dezoito anos, Austen escreveu suas histórias em três cadernos que ainda existem - um na Biblioteca Bodleian, e os outros dois no British Museum. Eles contêm, dentre outros trabalhos, Amor e amizade, escrito quando ela tinha catorze anos, e A história da Inglaterra, escrito quando tinha quinze anos. ...

    $58.00

  • A HISTÓRIA DA INGLATERRA
    JANE AUSTEN
    A história da Inglaterra foi escrita em 1791 por Jane Austen, quando tinha apenas quinze anos. ...

    $58.00


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