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Lady Susan, es una novela corta epistolar de Jane Austen. Posiblemente escrita en 1794, fue publicada en 1871 en forma postuma. Esta novela epistolar consta de 41 cartas escritas por y para los protagonistas principales.

"Persuasion" is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished "Emma" and completed it in August 1816. She died, at age 41, in 1817; "Persuasion" was published in December of that year (but dated 1818). "Persuasion" is linked...

Mansfield Park is a novel by Jane Austen, written at Chawton Cottage between February 1811 and 1813. It was published in May 1814 by Thomas Egerton, who published Jane Austen's two earlier novels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. When the novel reached a second edition in 1816, its publication...

Why do we set so much store by marriage? Jane Austen was fascinated by this question, subjecting it to her forensic eye and wonderfully ironic wit again and again. Here are stolen glances and nervous advances, meddling parents and self-important cousins, society whisperings and the fluttering hearts...

Northanger Abbey est le premier roman de Jane Austen publié posthumément en décembre 1817. L'œuvre raille la vie mondaine de Bath, que Jane Austen avait connue lors d'un séjour en 1797, et parodie les romans gothiques fort appréciés à l'époque: son héroïne, la toute jeune Catherine Morland,...

The Big FIVE O Four friends… one VERY big birthday Praise for Jane Wenham-Jones ‘Fresh, funny and wise’ Katie Fforde ‘I love Jane’s writing!’ Jill Mansell ‘feel-good’ Woman and Home They’re planning a party the seaside town of Broadstairs will never forget, but these four 49 year...

The Lives of the Dead short story collection begins and ends with a road trip. The outsider characters defy authority. They seek or are captured by memories of the past, tied up inextricably in landscape. These travellers of highways and trainlines are preoccupied with the lives of the dead, lost...

A bequest takes Sadie Jane Munroe across the Atlantic Ocean and into the remote, rugged eastern coast of Canada where she comes face to face with a mysterious past and a man who challenges both her heart and will. Rumours swirl around handsome Seth Moreash, a married man and minister. Is he a thief...

Extrait : S’IL est une idée généralement reçue, c’est qu’un homme fort riche doit penser à se marier.Quelque peu connues que soient ses habitudes et ses intentions, cette idée est si fortement gravée dans l’esprit de toutes les familles du pays dans lequel il se fixe, qu’il est à...

Jane Addams , known as the "mother" of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, protestor, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. She co-founded, with Ellen Gates Starr, an early settlement...

Mrs. Elizabeth Darcy is a woman with a secret... several secrets, in fact. Secrets that are best kept within (and behind) the walls of Pemberley. But when her sister Jane Bingley and her husband come to visit, Elizabeth is desperate to talk to someone, but how much can she reveal without changing...

Christmas has finally come to Longbourn, but Elizabeth Bennet's year has been anything but celebratory. Now that her elder sister Jane is engaged, Mrs. Bennet is understandably worried about Elizabeth's unwillingness to accept proposals from no less than two worthy gentlemen. Rumors are bound to spread,...

DESCRIPTION Northanger Abbey tells the story of Catherine Morland, a seventeen-year-old girl with a passion for Gothic novels, and her family friends, Mr. and Mrs. Allen, as they visit Bath for the first time. Catherine quickly makes new friends, including Isabella Thorpe and Eleanor Tilney....

Although Jane Austen wrote Lady Susan in 1794, she did not submit it for publication herself, it was not published until 1871. The book deviates significantly from Austen’s other work, adopting an epistolary style, using a series of letters to tell the story of the widowed Lady Susan’s efforts...