AUSTEN JANE

(P/B) MANSFIELD PARK
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AMANDA VICKERY The Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers and Austen fans: Alexander McCall Smith, Lynne Truss, Amanda Vickery, Francesca Segal, P.D. James and Andrew Motion. 'The most perfect artist among women, the writer whose books are immortal' Virginia Woolf Fanny Price's rich relatives offer her a place in their home so that she can be properly brought up. However, Fanny's childhood is a lonely one as sh...
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ΤΟ ΑΒΑΕΙΟ ΤΟΥ ΝΟΡΘΑΝΓΚΕΡ
Η Κάθριν Μόρλαντ ονειρευόταν από μικρή να πηγαίνει σε χορούς, θέατρα και παρόμοιες κοινωνικές εκδηλώσεις. Έτσι, όταν οι πλούσιοι γείτονές της την προσκαλούν στο κοσμικό Μπαθ, αρπάζει την ευκαιρία να πραγματοποιήσει το όνειρό της. Εκεί δημιουργεί νέες φιλίες και νιώθει τα πρώτα ερωτικά σκιρτήματα, σύντομα όμως ανακαλύπτει ότι η ζωή της υψηλής κοινωνίας είναι γεμάτη δοκιμασίες και προκλήσεις. Άραγε θα μπορέσει η Κάθριν να ξεπεράσει έχθρες και κουτσομπολιά, για να βρει την ευτυχία; (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου)...
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(P/B) SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen's first published work, meticulously constructed and sparkling with her unique wit. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Ros Ballaster, University of Oxford Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own r...
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(H/B) SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love - and its threatened loss - the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness i...
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(P/B) PERSUASION
'Her attachment and regrets had, for a long time, clouded every enjoyment of youth; and an early loss of bloom and spirits had been their lasting effect'. Anne Elliot's youthful bloom has faded and she has few romantic prospects, having being persuaded to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth eight years earlier when he was a naval captain with neither rank nor fortune. But now he has returned and Anne, who has bitterly regretted her decision ever since, sees the possibility of a second chance for happiness. Persuasion, Jane Aust...
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(P/B) THE BEAUTIFUL CASSANDRA
'She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.' A selection of Austen's dark and hilarious early writings - featuring murder, drunkenness, perjury, theft, poisoning, women breaking out of prison, men forging wills and babies biting off their mothers' fingers... Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over V...
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(H/B) EMMA
The texts of Austen's novels in the Penguin Edition are based on the first editions and have been edited afresh. The texts of four of the novels are necessarily based on the first edition: in the case of Pride and Prejudice Austen sold the copyright to the publisher of the first edition and was not involved with the preparation of the two further editions in her life-time; Emma did not reach a second edition in Britain in Austen's lifetime; and Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published posthumously. Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield...
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(H/B) NORTHANGER ABBEY
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. During an eventful season at Bath, young, na?ve Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who shares Catherine's love of Gothic romance and horror, and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney...
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(P/B) PERSUASION
Persuasion narrates the emotional journey of its protagonist Anne Elliot, who chances upon Captain Wentworth, a suitor she was persuaded to reject seven years earlier, and whose reappearance causes her to reflect on her past decisions and contemplate her marital future. Vividly depicting the society holiday towns of Lyme Regis and Bath and infused with its author's trademark wit, Austen's last completed novel, set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, is an entertaining and enduring account of the dilemmas facing young women in the ...
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(P/B) PERSUASION
The Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers and Austen fans: Alexander McCall Smith, Lynne Truss, Amanda Vickery, Francesca Segal, P.D. James and Andrew Motion. 'It is a sort of private novel. In the heroine Anne Elliot, we have glimpses of Austen and what happened to her; the lost romance and the lost youth' Julian Fellowes Eight years ago Anne Elliot bowed to pressure from her family and made the decision not to marry the man she lov...
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ΠΕΡΗΦΑΝΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΠΡΟΚΑΤΑΛΗΨΗ
Για ποιο λόγο το μυθιστόρημα Περηφάνια και Προκατάληψη παραμένει στα τοπ είκοσι βιβλία όλων των εποχών εδώ και δύο αιώνες; Σίγουρα για το μοναδικό συγγραφικό ύφος της Τζέιν Όστεν, που συνδυάζει άψογα τον ρομαντισμό και την ειρωνεία, το χιούμορ και τη σοβαρότητα. Οπωσδήποτε για την ικανότητα της συγγραφέως να δημιουργεί διασκεδαστικούς και αληθοφανείς χαρακτήρες, των οποίων οι ζωές περιπλέκονται με έναν μοναδικό τρόπο και που αντικατοπτρίζουν ένα κομμάτι της ζωής του αναγνώστη, ανεξάρτητα από τον χαρακτήρα του, την κοινωνική του τάξη και τη...
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(P/B) PERSUASION
"She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning." Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present happiness and has resigned herself to living off her memories. More than seven years earlier she complied with duty: persuaded to view the match as imprudent and improper, she broke off her engagement to a naval captain with neither fortune, ancestry, nor prospects. However, when peacetime arrives and brings the Navy home, and Anne encounters Captain Wentworth ...
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(H/B) PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Jane Austen's best-loved novel is an unforgettable story about the inaccuracy of first impressions, the power of reason, and above all the strange dynamics of human relationships and emotions. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is illustrated by Hugh Thomson and features an afterword by author and critic, Henry Hitchings. A tour de force of wit and sp...
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(H/B) PERSUASION
Jane Austen's final novel is her most mature and wickedly satirical. It follows the story of Anne Elliott, who as a teenager, was engaged to a seemingly ideal man, Frederick Wentworth. But after being persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that he is too poor to be a suitable match, Anne ends their engagement. When they are reacquainted eight years later, their circumstances are transformed: Frederick is returning triumphantly from the Napoleonic War, while Anne's fortunes are floundering. Will their past regrets prevent them from finding fu...
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(H/B) PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
The arrival of two rich bachelors stirs Mrs Bennet to hope that wedding bells will soon be in the air. Jane, the eldest of Mrs Bennet's daughters, forms an early attachment to Mr Bingley, but her spirited sister Elizabeth takes against the arrogant Mr Darcy. Events conspire to keep Jane and Mr Bingley apart, while Darcy's pride and Lizzy's prejudice hamper the course of true love. This book has matching lined and blank journals (sold separately). They make a great gift when paired together but are also just as beautiful on their own. (From...
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(H/B) EMMA
As Emma Woodhouse attempts to orchestrate the romantic lives of those around her, Austen expertly reveals that she may not be as much in control as she would like to believe. Emma was first published in 1816, the year before Jane Austen died. Austen herself thought that Emma was someone "no one but myself will much like". In spite of Austen's fears, the indomitable Emma Woodhouse continues to win the loyal hearts of each new generation of readers. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) NORTHANGER ABBEY
Northanger Abbey tells the story of a young girl, Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy, sophisticated world of Bath in the late 1790s. Austen observes with insight and humour the interaction between Catherine and the various characters whom she meets there, and tracks her growing understanding of the world about her. This book has matching lined and blank journals (sold separately). They make a great gift when paired together but are also just as beautiful on their own. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) MANSFIELD PARK
Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results. The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheerful amorality, old-fashioned indifference and priggish disapproval of those around her. This book has matching lined and blank journals (sold separately). They make a great gift when paired together but are also just as beautiful on their own. (...
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(P/B) THE COMPLETE NOVELS OF JANE AUSTEN
Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published. Whether it is her sharp, ironic gaze at the Gothic genre invoked by the adventures of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey; the diffident and much put-upon Fanny Price struggling to cope with her emotions in Mansfield Park; her delightfully paced co...
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(P/B) PERSUASION
What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances. A woman of no importance, she manoeuvres in her restricted circumstances as her long-time love Captain Wentworth did in the wars. Even though she is nearly thirty, well past the sell-by bloom of youth, Austen make...
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