AUSTEN JANE

(P/B) SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
The Dashwood sisters - 19-year-old Elinor and Marianne, aged 17 - are left poor and homeless by their father's death. Although kind relatives provide a roof over their heads, one way out of this misfortune is for both girls to marry well. However, impetuous Marianne and cautious Elinor find themselves having to choose between passionate romance and observing the rules of polite society. Through risky liaisons, misunderstandings and illness, two very different individuals discover, in their own ways, that a mixture of sense and sensibility ...
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(P/B) MANSFIELD PARK
"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 Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park. There she accepts her lowly status, and gradually falls in love with her cousin Edmund. When the dazzling and sophisticated Henry and Mary Crawford arrive, Fanny watches as her cousins become embroiled in rivalry and s...
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ΤΟ ΑΒΒΑΕΙΟ ΤΟΥ ΝΟΡΘΑΝΓΚΕΡ
Η δεκαπεντάχρονη Κάθριν Μόρλαντ, μια κοπέλα γλυκιά, καλόπιστη και φανατική αναγνώστρια μυθιστορημάτων, κάνει την πρώτη της έξοδο στον κόσμο και ζει μια σειρά από φανταστικούς και πραγματικούς κινδύνους, πρώτα στο κοσμικό και ανάλαφρο Μπαθ και ύστερα στο βαρύ και επιβλητικό αββαείο του Νορθάνγκερ. Χάρη στον άδολο χαρακτήρα της, τις ηθικές αρχές της και την καλή της τύχη, θα βγει από τις περιπέτειές της αλώβητη, έχοντας μάθει να ξεχωρίζει την πραγματική ζωή από τα μυθιστορήματα και τη φιλία από την αρπακτικότητα. Το Αββαείο του Νορθάνγκερ, π...
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(P/B) MARRIAGE
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 of young lovers. All of them have their own views and expectations of marriage, and Austen's are the wisest of all. Selected from the novels Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen. (From the ...
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(H/B) NORTHANGER ABBEY
Broadly comedic and brilliantly postmodern in its lampooning of a genre, the Jane Austen classic Northanger Abbey tells the story of Catherine Morland, a naive young woman whose perceptions of the world around her are greatly influenced by the romantic gothic novels to which she is addicted. When she moves to Bath she sees mystery and intrigue all around her, not least of all in Northanger Abbey itself, the home of General Tilney and his handsome son Henry, where Catherine suspects a sinister crime has occurred. Gorgeously illustrated by ...
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(P/B) EMMA
When her former governess finds happiness as the bride of a local widower, the brilliant and beautiful Emma Woodhouse - one of Jane Austen's immortal creations - flatters herself that she alone has secured the marriage and that she possesses a special talent for bringing lovers together. The young heiress next busies herself with finding a suitable husband for her friend and protege, Harriet Smith, setting off an entertaining sequence of comic mishaps and misunderstanding in this sparkling comedy of English-village romance. Beneath its con...
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(H/B) SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Sense and Sensibility is a delightful comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two qualities. Elinor's character is one of Augustan detachment, while Marianne, a fervent disciple of the Romantic Age, learns to curb her passionate nature in the interests of survival. (From the publisher)...
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Emma (+CD)
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, has a perfect life. She has decided never to get married but to live as the mistress at Hartfield, her father's house in the beautiful English countryside. But when she starts matchmaking she finds that her imagination has created more problems than solutions... This reader uses the EXPANSIVE READING approach, where the text becomes a springboard to improve language skills and to explore historical background, cultural connections and other topics suggested by the text. As well as the story, this ...
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(P/B) LADY SUSAN AND OTHER WORKS
This collection brings together Jane Austen’s earliest experiments in the art of fiction and novels that she left incomplete at the time of her premature death in 1817. Her fragmentary juvenilia show Austen developing her own sense of narrative form whilst parodying popular kinds of fiction of her day. Lady Susan is a wickedly funny epistolary novel about a captivating but unscrupulous widow seeking to snare husbands for her daughter and herself. The Watsons explores themes of family relationships, the marriage market, and attitudes to ran...
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ΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΚΑΙ ΕΥΑΙΣΘΗΣΙΑ
Η Τζέην Ώστεν είναι μια από τις μεγαλύτερες μορφές της αγγλικής λογοτεχνίας. Μαζί με συγγραφείς όπως ο Σκοτ, ο Ντίκενς και η Σαρλότ Μπροντέ, ανήκει στους πρωτεργάτες του νεότερου αγγλικού μυθιστορήματος. Η λεπτή και συνάμα καυστική ειρωνεία της, οι απολαυστικοί και ρεαλιστικοί διάλογοι, η εξαιρετικά διεισδυτική ματιά της στα ζητήματα των ανθρώπινων σχέσεων και η θαυμαστή ικανότητά της να σκιαγραφεί χαρακτήρες είναι μερικά από τα χαρακτηριστικά του έργου της, ενός έργου που ποτέ δεν έπαψε να συγκινεί και να γοητεύει. Όταν ήταν παρών ο Γουίλ...
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(H/B) SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Two sisters of opposing temperament but who share the pangs of tragic love provide the subjects for Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. 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. Gorgeously illustrated by the celebrated Hugh Thomson, this Macmillan Collector's Library edition also includes an afterword by author and critic Henry Hitchings. Elinor, practical and conventio...
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NORTHANGER ABBEY
On a visit to the fashionable city of Bath, 17-year-old Catherine Norland looks for the excitement that she finds in romantic fiction. She makes friends and falls in love. But when she is invited to Northanger Abbey she also experiences desperate unhappiness. What is real, and what is the product of her wild imagination? (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) SANDITON & THE WATSONS
Praised by critics and studied by scholars, Jane Austen's novels endure because of their popularity with readers. The author's witty and astute observations elevate her tales of parties, gossip, and romance into matters of captivating drama, offering an evocative portrait of everyday life in the towns and countryside of Regency England. Austen's premature death at the age of forty-two curtailed her legacy, and her devotees have eagerly read and re-read her handful of books. This collection features two of her unfinished novels, an often ov...
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(P/B) MANSFIELD PARK
Everyone looks upon shy, self-effacing Fanny Price as the poor relation among her four spoiled cousins at Mansfield Park. Adopted at a tender age by an uncle and aunt who have grown rich from a sugar plantation in distant Antigua, she finds herself morally at odds with them and their offspring. Her chief consolation is the kindness of the younger son, Edmund Bertram, whom she secretly loves. The arrival in the village of city sophisticates Henry and Mary Crawford sparks a series of romantic entanglements which lead the Bertrams to the brin...
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(P/B) PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. At least Mrs Bennet is determined that this is the case, but as she pushes her five daughters at every matrimonial prospect, not every encounter goes to plan... This classic full of wit, humour and romance gets a whole new look with a gorgeous cover by Emily Sutton. (From the publisher)...
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ΥΠΕΡΗΦΑΝΕΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΠΡΟΚΑΤΑΛΗΨΗ
Ταξιδέψτε με τα χρώματα στον μαγικό κόσμο της κλασικής λογοτεχνίας! Μεταφερθείτε στο Πέμπερλι και στην κλασική ιστορία αγάπης της Ελίζαμπεθ και του κυρίου Ντάρσι. Πάρτε τα αγαπημένα σας μαρκαδοράκια ή τις ξυλομπογιές σας και προσθέστε το δικό σας χρώμα στα περίτεχνα σχέδια, τα περίπλοκα μοτίβα και τα ρομαντικά σκηνικά. Επίσης, απολαύστε επιλεγμένα αποσπάσματα που αντικατοπτρίζουν τη γοητεία των αξεπέραστων ηρώων της ιστορίας, τη μαγεία των πιο κλασικών στιγμών και το πνεύμα της συγγραφέως. Ερωτευτείτε το κλασικό αριστούργημα της Τζέιν Όστε...
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(P/B) PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." The famous opening words of Pride and Prejudice carry the reader straight to the heart of the Bennet household, the home of no fewer than five marriageable daughters. Austen's best-loved romance unfolds around the two eldest, Jane and Elizabeth, and two eligible bachelors, Mr Bingley and his friend Mr Darcy. When the lively Elizabeth first meets the aloof, conceited Darcy she dislikes him immediately, but this is only the ...
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(P/B) EMMA
'Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich...had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.' This comedy of manners, published in 1816, features Emma as an avowed spinster and matchmaker, who is convinced that she knows best who should marry whom. And despite Austen's own doubts, the charming and infuriating heroine is a favourite of many readers. Having almost ruined the prospects of Harriet Smith, her protegee, and been reprimanded by her good friend, George Knightley, Emma finally learns a little...
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ΕΜΜΑ
"Οφείλω να σε προειδοποιήσω ότι μπορεί να μαντέψεις είκοσι πράγματα και πάλι να μην έχεις μαντέψει σωστά". Μετά το γάμο της γκουβερνάντας της, η πλούσια και κακομαθημένη Έμμα Γούντχαουζ αναζητεί καινούρια συντροφιά και ψυχαγωγία. Αγνοώντας τις προειδοποιήσεις του φίλου της κυρίου Νάιτλι, κάνει απανωτές γκάφες. Με επιστολές προς την αδελφή της, η συγγραφέας θέτει γρίφους στον αναγνώστη που θα μπέρδευαν και τον καλύτερο ντετέκτιβ. Ποιος έστειλε το μυστηριώδες πιάνο; Γιατί ο κύριος Έλτον είναι τόσο γοητευτικός και η δεσποινίς Φέρφαξ τόσο επ...
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Sense and sensibility (+CD)
Elinor Dashwood values common sense and self-control but her sister Marianne shows her emotions and values Romantic 'sensibility. Both sisters fall in love, but the road to love is not easy for either of them... This reader uses the EXPANSIVE READING approach, where the text becomes a springboard to improve language skills and to explore historical background, cultural connections and other topics suggested by the text. As well as the story, this reader contains: - An introduction about Jane Austen - A wide range of activities practising t...
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