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Title: Pride And Prejudice: Description:
Classic period romance

Title: Mansfield Park (english Library): Description:
The Mansfield Park of the title, a magnificent, idyllic estate which is home to the wealthy Bertram family, stands as a bastion of English tradition and stability. The novel's heroine, Fanny Price, is a "poor relation" living with the Bertrams, acutely conscious of her inferior status and yet daring to love their son Edmund--but from afar. However, with five marriageable young people on the premises, the peace at Mansfield cannot last. Courtships, entertainments and intrigues throw the place into turmoil, and Fanny finds herself unwillingly competing with a dazzlingly witty and lovely rival. As critic Margaret Drabble has pointed out, the house becomes "full of the energies of discord--sibling rivalry, greed, ambition, illicit sexual passion, and vanity," and the novel becomes ever more engrossing as it builds to Mansfield's final scandal and, finally, a satisfying conclusion. Unique in its moral design and brilliant interplay of the forces of tradition and change, Mansfield Park was the first novel of Jane Austen's maturity, and the first in which the author turned her unerring eye on the concerns of English society at a time of great upheaval.

Title: Northanger Abbey (english Library): Description:
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Title: Pride And Prejudice: Description:
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Title: Mansfield Park (penguin Popular Classics): Description:
The Mansfield Park of the title, a magnificent, idyllic estate which is home to the wealthy Bertram family, stands as a bastion of English tradition and stability. The novel's heroine, Fanny Price, is a "poor relation" living with the Bertrams, acutely conscious of her inferior status and yet daring to love their son Edmund--but from afar. However, with five marriageable young people on the premises, the peace at Mansfield cannot last. Courtships, entertainments and intrigues throw the place into turmoil, and Fanny finds herself unwillingly competing with a dazzlingly witty and lovely rival. As critic Margaret Drabble has pointed out, the house becomes "full of the energies of discord--sibling rivalry, greed, ambition, illicit sexual passion, and vanity," and the novel becomes ever more engrossing as it builds to Mansfield's final scandal and, finally, a satisfying conclusion. Unique in its moral design and brilliant interplay of the forces of tradition and change, Mansfield Park was the first novel of Jane Austen's maturity, and the first in which the author turned her unerring eye on the concerns of English society at a time of great upheaval.

Title: Sense And Sensibility: Description:
A classic novel

Title: Persuasion (wordsworth Classics): Description:
Jane Austen's last completed novel.

Title: Emma (penguin Popular Classics): Description:
Emma Wodehouse has led a simple life, but during the course of this she at last reaps her share of the world's vexations. In this comedy of manners, the heroine learns to come to terms with the reality of other people, and with her own erring nature.

Title: Pride And Prejudice: Level 2 - Schools Edition (compact English Classics): Description:
The stories featured in the "Compact Classics" series are some of the best ever written. They have been carefully adapted and structured to aid language development. The stories are told in a way which is both lively and true to the feeling of the original text.

Title: Sense And Sensibility: Description:
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Title: Pride And Prejudice: Description:
The story of the Bennet family and of Mrs Bennet's efforts to marry off her five daughters. In his introduction, Peter Conrad discusses the subtlety of Austen's art and idiom and her telling use of irony to expose the vices and failings of the society which she describes.

Title: Pride And Prejudice (penguin Popular Classics): Description:
When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor, Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life. About the Author Fiona Stafford is the author of The Last of the Race: The Growth of a Myth from Milton to Darwin (Clarendon Press, 1994), Starting Lines in Scottish, Irish and English Poetry: From Burns to Heaney (OUP, 2000) and the editor of Lodore in the Complete Works of Mary Shelley. She is the editor of Austen's Emma in Penguin Classics. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Title: Northanger Abbey: Description:
With its loveable, impressionable heroine and its themes of growing up and learning to live in the real world, Northanger Abbey remains one of Jane Austen's most irresistible and up-to-date novels. Catherine Morland is the very ideal of a nice girl from a happy family, butshe is blessed with an overactive imagination. She is also obsessed with lurid Gothic novels, where terrible things happen to the heroine. Which gets her into all sorts of trouble When Catherine meets funny, sharp Henry Tilney, she's instantly taken with him. But when she is invited to his home, the sinister Northanger Abbey, her preoccupation with fantasy starts to get in the way of reality. Will she learn to separate out the two in time

Title: Pride And Prejudice: Description:
'I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry' Perhaps her best-loved, certainly her most well-known book, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE is the classic romantic comedy. It's the enchanting and enduring story of Lizzy Bennet (one of literature's most engaging heroines), proud Mr Darcy, of true love, families, villains and heroes and of course, pride and prejudice.

Title: Mansfield Park (wordsworth Classics): Description:
This title contains introduction and notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex. 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. About the Author Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex

Title: Mansfield Park (oxford World's Classics): Description:
"Mansfield Park" is a study of three families - the Bertrams, the Crawfords, and the Prices - with the isolated figure of the heroine, Fanny Price, at its centre. Fanny's quiet passivity, her steadfast loyalty and love for the son of the family who regard her as the poor relation, are among the qualities whose true worth is not appreciated until they are tried against the brilliant and witty Mary and Henry Crawford, the unfortunate consequences of whose influence are felt by everyone. Jane Austen uses Fanny's emotional involvement with the people around her to explore the social and moral values by which she and they try to order their lives. First published in 1814, the text of this edition is taken from R.W. Chapman's Oxford edition. About the Author Edited by James Kinsley. With a new bibliography and introductory essay by Marilyn Butler, King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge, and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge

Title: Austen : Mansfield Park (everyman): Description:
Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes. About the Author Edited by James Kinsley. With a new bibliography and introductory essay by Marilyn Butler, King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge, and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Title: Shorter Works.: Description:
Contains two complete novels-Lady Susan and Love and friendship. Three Major fragments, The history of England and seven minor novels.

Title: Persuasion (oxford Classics): Description:
Although shorter and slighter than predecessors Mansfield Park and Emma, it shows much of their depth and their fine organisation, while gently unfolding it`s own distinctive features.

Title: Mansfield Park (a Watts Ultratype Edition): Description:
A study of three families - the Bertrams, the Crawfords and the Prices - in which Jane Austen uses the unlikely heroine, Fanny Price, to explore the social and moral values by which these families' lives are ordered.

Title: Emma (wordsworth Classics): Description:
This title contains introduction and notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading. Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible. 'Handsome, clever, and rich', Emma is also an 'imaginist', 'on fire with speculation and foresight'. She sees the signs of romance all around her, but thinks she will never be married. Her matchmaking maps out relationships that Jane Austen ironically tweaks into a clearer perspective. Judgement and imagination are matched in games the reader too can enjoy, and the end is a triumph of understanding. About the Author Stephen M. Parrish is the Goldwin Smith Professor of English Emeritus at Cornell University.

Title: Emma (wordsworth Hardback Library): Description:
jane austen - emma

Title: Emma: Description:
Fiction

Title: Pride And Prejudice (wordsworth Classics) (wordsworth Classics): Description:
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.