AUSTEN JANE

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Όμορφη, έξυπνη και πλούσια. Εγωκεντρική, ισχυρογνώμων και κακομαθημένη. Αυτή είναι η Έμμα Γουντχάουζ. Χωρίς κανένα ενδιαφέρον για ρομαντικές έλξεις και έρωτες, η Έμμα έχει βρει νόημα στη βαρετή ζωή της: ενορχηστρώνει τους έρωτες των άλλων. Ζει εξυφαίνοντας ιστορίες και παρεμβαίνοντας στα ερωτικά τρίτων. Και το κάνει με επιτυχία. Στόχος της τώρα είναι να φέρει κοντά τη φίλη και προστατευόμενή της Χάριετ Σμιθ με τον τοπικό ιερέα Έλτον. Καταστρώνει το τέλειο σχέδιο. Όμως δεν υπολογίζει το πιο σημαντικό: Ο Έλτον θέλει να παντρευτεί την ίδια. Ό...
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Η Έμμα Γούντχαουζ είναι ωραία, έξυπνη και πλούσια και δε βλέπει τον λόγο να παντρευτεί ποτέ. Λατρεύει, όμως, να κάνει προξενιά στους άλλους παρά τις συμβουλές του φίλους του φίλου της, του κυρίου Νάιτλι, ο οποίος την προειδοποιεί να μη χώνει τη μύτη της σε ξένες υποθέσεις. Η τελευταία της επιτυχία -ο γάμος της γκουβερνάντας της- τη γεμίζει σιγουριά ότι μπορεί να βρει το σωστό ταίρι για τον καθένα. Θα συνεχιστούν οι επιτυχίες της; Ή μήπως τα ωραιότατα σχέδιά της θα ναυαγήσουν... όπως φαίνεται να συμβαίνει κάθε φορά; Σύγχρονες και διασκεδαστ...
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(H/B) PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband. With its wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible heroine, Pride and Prejudice has proved one of the most enduringly popular novels in the English language. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) PERSUASION
In her last completed novel, Jane Austen revisits the theme of mischance and misunderstanding along the road to happiness. Seven years after she was persuaded to break off their engagement, Anne Elliot is unexpectedly reacquainted with Captain Frederick Wentworth. Anne is still in love with Wentworth, but will the captain be able to forgive 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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(P/B) JANE AUSTEN
Best known - and beloved - for her highly popular novels including Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen was also an accomplished, and often witty, poet: 'I am going to have my dinner, after which I shan't be thinner' This collection, which also includes poems by the poets she herself admired, sheds light not only on Jane Austen the writer, but on the themes that are woven through her bestselling novels. Satirical, humorous and ironical, they will resonate both with readers who love her novels, and newcomers alik...
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(P/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. In this, her first full-length novel, Austen also fixes her sharp, ironic gaze on other kinds of contemporary novel, especially the Gothic school made famous by Ann Radcliffe. Catherine's re...
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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. (From the publisher)...
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Στα δεκαεννιά της, η Ανν Έλιοτ συμμορφώθηκε με την επιθυμία των δικών της και ακύρωσε τον αρραβώνα της με τον αγαπημένο της Φρέντερικ Γουέντγουορθ, που ήταν αξιωματικός του ναυτικού. Χρόνια αργότερα, ο Γουέντγουορθ, πλοίαρχος πλέον, επιστρέφει και η Ανν συνειδητοποιεί ότι είναι ακόμη ερωτευμένη μαζί του. Όμως, ο δρόμος για την αληθινή αγάπη είναι γεμάτος εμπόδια. Θα καταφέρουν η Ανν και ο Φρέντερικ να ξανασμίξουν; (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου)...
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Northanger abbey (+CD)
Seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland is going to Bath. When she makes friends with handsome Henry Tilney, she finds herself in the middle of a family tragedy. Is the Tilneys' home, Northanger Abbey, the scene of a crime? Or is Catherine just imagining it? 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: - A wide range of activities pr...
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(H/B) SEVEN NOVELS
In a publishing career that spanned less than a decade, Jane Austen revolutionized the literary romance, using it as a stage from which to address issues of gender politics and class-consciousness rarely expressed in her day. The novels included in this beautiful leatherbound collection - Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Lady Susan - represent all of Austen's mature work as a novelist, and provide the reader with an introduction to the world she and her memorable characters...
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(P/B) PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Pride and Prejudice is one of the most cherished love stories in English literature, delighting generations of readers with its high comedy, social observation and compelling romance, and spawning an entire industry of spin-off books, film adaptations and works of literary criticism. The pride of high-ranking Mr Darcy and the prejudice of middle-class Elizabeth Bennet conduct an absorbing dance through the rigid social hierarchies of early-nineteenth-century England, with the passion of the two unlikely lovers growing as their union seems ...
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(P/B) MANSFIELD PARK (ALMA CLASSICS)
Born into a poor family, Fanny Price is raised amid the daunting splendour of Mansfield Park by her rich uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram. Treated as an inferior by most of the family, Fanny forms a close attachment to her cousin Edmund, the only person to show her kindness. With the departure of her uncle to the West Indies and the arrival from London of the fashionable Henry and Mary Crawford, flirtation and romantic intrigue abound. As Fanny becomes increasingly uncomfortable with the conduct of her companions, she finds herself isolated and f...
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(P/B) SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Against the backdrop of growing discontent in Paris, Doctor Manette is released from the Bastille after eighteen years of unjust imprisonment and begins a new life in England with his devoted daughter Lucie. There, the gifted but dissolute lawyer Sydney Carton and the exiled French nobleman Charles Darnay find their lives increasingly intertwined with those of the Manettes. Yet soon both men are drawn ineluctably from the peaceful English capital to the horror and bloodshed of the Paris Terror and the looming threat of the guillotine. Repr...
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ΠΕΡΗΦΑΝΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΠΡΟΚΑΤΑΛΗΨΗ ΚΑΙ ΖΟΜΠΙ
Έτσι ξεκινάει το "Περηφάνια και Προκατάληψη και Ζόμπι", η διευρυμένη έκδοση του πολυαγαπημένου μυθιστορήματος της Jane Austen, που παρουσιάζει για πρώτη φορά ολοκαίνουριες σκηνές με ζόμπι. Καθώς η ιστορία μας ξεδιπλώνεται, μια μυστηριώδης πανούκλα έχει πέσει στο ήσυχο Αγγλικό χωριό Μέρυτον, και οι νεκροί επιστρέφουν στη ζωή! Η δυναμική ηρωίδα Ελίζαμπεθ Μπένετ, είναι αποφασισμένη να εξαλείψει την απειλή, αλλά σύντομα αποσπάται η προσοχή της από την άφιξη του αγέρωχου και υπεροπτικού κου Ντάρσυ. Αυτό που ακολουθεί είναι μια απολαυστική κωμωδ...
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Περηφάνια, προκατάληψη και ζόμπι
Μια παραλλαγμένη εκδοχή του αγαπημένου ρομαντικού μυθιστορήματος της Τζέιν Όστεν, εμπλουτισμένη με βίαιες σκηνές αναμετρήσεων με βικτωριανούς νεκροζώντανους που διψούν για ανθρώπινα μυαλά. Ένας μυστηριώδης λοιμός θερίζει το Λονδίνο και την αγγλική επαρχία, μετατρέποντας μεγάλο μέρος του πληθυσμού σε παραμορφωμένα ζόμπι που κατακλύζουν σπίτια, δρόμους και δάση. Η δυναμική πρωταγωνίστρια Ελίζαμπεθ Μπένετ, εκπαιδευμένη όπως και οι τέσσερις αδελφές της στις πολεμικές τέχνες του θανάτου, είναι αποφασισμένη να κάνει τα πάντα για να συμβάλει στην...
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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. Wordsworth Collector's Editions are compact cloth-bound hardbacks with matching coloured end papers, embossed gold and coloured blocking to enhance their bea...
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(P/B) NORTHANGER ABBEY
When seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland, a country clergyman's daughter, is invited to spend a season in Bath with the fashionable high society, little does she imagine the delights and perils that await her. Introduced to the joys of Gothic novels by her new friend, Isabella Thorpe, Catherine yearns for romance and mystery. Her expectations soar when she is invited to stay with the beguiling Henry Tilney and his family in Northanger Abbey. Because she has been reading Ann Radcliffe's gothic novel "The Mysteries of Udolpho", Catherine ex...
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(H/B) PERSUASION
Of all Jane Austen's great and delightful novels, Persuasion is widely regarded as the most moving. It is the story of a second chance. Anne Elliot, daughter of the snobbish, spendthrift Sir Walter Elliot, is a woman of quiet charm and deep feelings. When she was nineteen, she fell in love with - and was engaged to - a naval officer, the fearless and headstrong Captain Wentworth. But the young man had no fortune, and Anne allowed herself to be persuaded, against her profoundest instinct, to give him up.Now, at twenty-seven, and believing t...
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(H/B) PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
No novel in English has given more pleasure than Pride and Prejudice. Because it is one of the great works in our literature, critics in every generation reexamine and reinterpret it. But the rest of us simply fall in love with it - and with its wonderfully charming and intelligent heroine, Elizabeth Bennet. And everyone is held fast not only by the novel’s romantic suspense but also by the fascinations of the world we visit. The life of the English country gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century is made as real to us as our own, not ...
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(P/B) EMMA
Emma is considered by many readers to be Jane Austen's crowning achievement, a timeless comedy of manners that lays bare the limits on women's autonomy in Regency England. The disparity between Emma Woodhouse's self-confidence and self-knowledge, and her determination to arrange marriages for her friends while avoiding one for herself, leads to a painful series of misunderstandings for everyone who suffers from her well-meaning altruism - and with Mr Knightley being the only person of her acquaintance who has the good sense to challenge he...
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