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"Me!" cried Fanny..."Indeed you must excuse me. I could not act any thing if you were to give me the world. No, indeed, I cannot act." At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir...
'The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste' Virginia WoolfJane Austen's subtle and witty novel of secrets and suppression, lies and seduction, brilliantly portrays a world where rigid social convention clashes with the impulses of the heart. It...
'Full of the energies of discord - sibling rivalry, greed, ambition, illicit sexual passion and vanity' Margaret DrabbleJane Austen's profound, ambiguous third novel is the story of Fanny Price, who is accustomed to being the poor relation at Mansfield Park, the home of...
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''The best-loved book by our best-loved novelist' IndependentWith its 'light and bright and sparkling' dialogue, its romantic denouement and its lively heroine, Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's most perennially...
'Jane Austen is a genius, and Northanger Abbey is hugely underrated' Martin AmisWith its irrepressible heroine and playful literary games, Northanger Abbey is the most youthful and optimistic of Jane Austen's novels. It tells the story of young, impressionable Catherine...
'Her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility' Robert McCrum, ObserverAlthough described by Jane Austen as a character 'whom no one but myself will much like', the irrepressible Emma Woodhouse is one of her most beloved heroines. ...
'In Persuasion, Jane Austen is beginning to discover that the world is larger, more mysterious, and more romantic than she had supposed' Virginia WoolfJane Austen's moving late novel of missed opportunities and second chances centres on Anne Elliot, no longer young and...
Collecting three lesser-known works by one of the nineteenth century's greatest authors, Jane Austen's Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon is edited with an introduction by Margaret Drabble in Penguin Classics.These three short works show Austen experimenting with a...
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are two strikingly different sisters. On their father's death, the Estate goes to their brother John who, encouraged his his wife, goes against his father's wishes of looking after his sisters and step-mother. They retire to a cottage in...
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and...
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
MY DEAR BROTHER, I can no longer refuse myself the pleasure of profiting by your kind invitation when we last parted of spending some weeks with you at Churchhill, and, therefore, if quite convenient to you and Mrs. Vernon to receive me at present, I shall hope within...
Débordant d’imagination et passionnée de littérature, la jeune Catherine Morland brûle de découvrir le monde. Au cours d’un bal, elle rencontre le charmant Henry Tilney qui l’invite dans sa mystérieuse demeure de Northanger. Catherine tente aussitôt de percer les...
Huit ans ont passé depuis qu’Anne Elliot, deuxième fille d’un baronnet du Somerset, a refusé la demande en mariage de Frederick Wentworth, jeune officier de marine sans rang ni fortune. Le voici aujourd’hui, prospère et haut gradé, de retour au pays. Le capitaine...
« À ceux qui ne changent jamais d’avis, il incombe particulièrement de bien juger du premier coup. » Dans l’Angleterre du XIXe siècle, le mariage est autant une aspiration qu’une nécessité pour les femmes, et les cinq sœurs Bennet n’y font pas exception. Mais Elizabeth,...
Lorsque Anne Elliot tombe amoureuse de Frederick Wentworth, à dix-neuf ans, il n’est qu’un jeune officier de marine sans fortune. Sa famille et ses amis le jugent indigne d’elle, et la persuadent de refuser sa demande en mariage.Huit ans plus tard, lorsqu’elle le...
« Emma Woodhouse, belle, intelligente, douée d’un heureux naturel, disposant de larges revenus, semblait réunir sur sa tête les meilleurs dons de l’existence ; elle allait atteindre sa vingt et unième année sans qu’une souffrance même légère l’eût effleurée. »Persuadée...
La première impression faite par Mr. Darcy à Lizzie Bennet n’est guère glorieuse, celle qu’il forme d’elle pas mieux. D’offenses en malentendus, leurs rapports seront aussi glacialement antipathiques que les sentiments seront chaleureux entre le meilleur ami de Darcy,...
« À ceux qui ne changent jamais d’opinion, il incombe particulièrement de bien juger du premier coup. »
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