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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GILL HORNBYHandsome, clever and rich, Emma Woodhouse has no desire to fall in love or be married. Playing Cupid for her peers is far more appealing. But when Emma's well-intentioned schemes for her friend Harriet Smith begin to go awry, Emma...
Jane Austen tells the story of Emma Woodhouse, a beautiful, wealthy and intelligent woman who is vain and self-centered; she is not interested in romantic love and therefore believes that she should not marry, although the customs of the society of the time see marriage...
Lady Susan Vernon, a beautiful and charming recent widow, visits her brother and sister-in-law, Charles and Catherine, with little advance notice at Churchill, their country residence. Catherine is far from pleased, asLady Susan had tried to prevent her marriage to...
Sir Thomas Bertram is the owner of the luxurious Mansfield Park estate, where he lives with his wife Maria and four children. Lady Bertram's sister Frances, on the other hand, is in more dire straits, so much so that she is forced to ask for help from the Bertrams...
Catherine Morland, the novel's protagonist, is invited to spend a few days at the former Northanger Abbey, the home of the family of the young Anglican pastor to whom she is engaged and who believes her to be a wealthy heiress. Impressed by the place and even more so by...
Jane Austen is one of the few truly great writers who have managed to break into the hearts and minds of all readers, without exception. Among her many masterpieces, “Pride and Prejudice” is surely the most popular and beloved: the five daughters of the unforgettable...
Anne Elliot, the novel's protagonist, made a mistake: as a very young girl, barely nineteen, she allowed herself to be persuaded by the opposition of her father, Sir Walter, and the “persuasion” of Lady Russell to break off her engagement to the very young but poor...
The setting is the lush English countryside. We are at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Three sisters lose their father, coming into financial straits because of their sister-in-law's greed.The chain reactions generated by the sudden poverty will profoundly...
Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 novel of manners by Jane Austen. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between...
Sent to live with her rich cousins, the Bertrams, at the age of ten, Fanny Price is acutely aware of her humble rank. As she grows up, she falls in love with her cousin, Edmund Bertram, her only ally and friend. But when the Crawfords move into the neighborhood,...
When seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland is invited to Northanger Abbey, the grand and forbidding ancestral seat of her suitor, Henry Tilney, she allows the Gothic novels she’s obsessed with to fill her mind with terrible suspicions. What is the mystery...
Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read. This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter. - Reading time of the complete text: about 15 hours - Reading time of the summarized text: 42 minutes "Mansfield Park" is a novel by...
Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read. This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter. - Reading time of the complete text: about 8 hours - Reading time of the summarized text: 21 minutes "Persuasion" is the last novel...
Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read. This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter. - Reading time of the complete text: about 11 hours - Reading time of the summarized text: about 1 hour "Sense and Sensibility" is a...
"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen is a beloved classic that transports readers to the elegant world of Regency England, where societal norms and expectations intertwine with the complexities of love, pride, and the pursuit of happiness. With wit, charm, and astute...
Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse delights in interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protégée, Harriet Smith, her carefully...
This edition of Jane Austen's letters was edited by Fanny Knight's son Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen (the first Baron Brabourne, lived 1829-1893), and was published in 1884. The Letters of Jane Austen (1884) publishes these letters for the first time, and sets...
Pride and Prejudice follows the turbulent relationship between Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a country gentleman, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rich aristocratic landowner. They must overcome the titular sins of pride and prejudice in order to fall in love and marry....
Eight years ago, Anne Elliot followed the advice of Lady Russell, her only true friend, and broke off her engagement to the dashing young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. When Anne and the newly wealthy Captain Wentworth cross paths years later, it is clear that he...
Mansfield Park tells the story of Fanny Price, starting when her overburdened family sends her at the age of ten to live in the household of her wealthy aunt and uncle. There she grows up with her four cousins: Tom, Edmund, Maria and Julia. She is tolerated inMansfield...
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