Jane Austen: 821 books

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.’ Written at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Persuasion is a tale of love, heartache...

The Reverend John Watson, who, for the space of twenty years, was the incumbent of the village of Winston, had not always been such an indolent invalid as he appeared to those who only knew him during the last ten years of that time. When he was inducted into the living, he was a husband and the father...

Esta novela epistolar consta de 41 cartas escritas por y para los protagonistas principales. Es una obra de juventud, completa, pero que nunca la autora presentó para su publicación. Describe los planes de la protagonista, la recientemente viuda Lady Susan, mientras se busca un nuevo marido y a...

Mr Darcy *heart eyes emoji* Lizzie Bennet. But will she swipe right? Delight in Austen’s intelligent wit and piercing social commentary, distillled and translated into the beautiful, modern language of emoji. Because there is no enjoyment like reading. Except maybe texting.

When she is 10 years old, Fanny Price is sent from her poor and large family to Mansfield Park, where she is to be raised by her wealthy aunt and uncle, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram. Though she grows up in the same home as her four older cousins, she is often treated as a poor and ignorant relation,...

HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘The real evils, indeed, of Emma’s situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself…’ Beautiful, rich, self-assured and witty, Emma Woodhouse...

'Of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a Man of his age! - just old enough to be formal, ungovernable and to have the Gout - too old to be agreable, and too young to die.' The scheming and unscrupulous Lady Susan is unlike any Austen heroine you've met in this fascinating early novella. One...

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 an wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like." In the first sentence, she introduces the title character...

Over 30 classic romantic novels and stories with active table of contents.The book includes the following authorThe Bronte FamilyF. Scott FitzgeraldLouisa May AlcottJane Austen

(Steventon, Gran Bretaña, 1775-Winchester, id., 1817) Novelista británica. Su padre, un clérigo protestante, era rector de la parroquia de Steventon. Séptima hija de una familia de ocho hermanos, su padre se encargó personalmente de su educación. En 1801,...

Anne Elliot, de 27 años, es la heroína más adulta de Austen. Ocho años antes de que comience la historia propiamente dicha, ella está felizmente comprometida con un oficial naval, Frederick Wentworth, pero ella rompe el compromiso cuando su amiga, lady Russell, la persuade de que tal partida...

(Steventon, Gran Bretaña, 1775-Winchester, id., 1817) Novelista británica. Su padre, un clérigo protestante, era rector de la parroquia de Steventon. Séptima hija de una familia de ocho hermanos, su padre se encargó personalmente de su educación. En 1801,...

ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP In Mansfield Park, considered Austen’s darkest and most complex novel, the wealthy Bertram family’s social and private worlds are revealed through the eyes of Fanny Price, a poor relation residing with them. THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC...

Persuasion was one of the three novels written between February l811 and August 1816. As the manuscript was subscribed "Finish, July 18, 1816," It is probable that it was written later than Emma and Mansfield Park. It appears from The Memoir, moreover, that it was not finally completed in...