JANE AUSTEN

Emma, an upper-class woman in regency England, fancies herself a matchmaker, but her proposed pairings tend to work out better in her head than they do in real life. Her meddling almost costs her all her friends, and her and all her friends their happiness, forcing her to scramble to make things right.Laced with Austen's trademark wit, and...

Fanny Price, a young girl from a large and relatively poor family, is taken to be raised by her rich uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas, and Lady Bertram, of Mansfield Park. Fanny grows up with her four older cousins but is always treated as something of a poor relation. Only Edmund, the second son, shows her real kindness. Over time, Fanny's...

Powieść wydana w 1815 roku. Podobnie, jak w innych powieściach, Jane Austen opisuje rozterki dystyngowanej kobiety żyjącej w Anglii okresu regencji. Tytułową bohaterką powieści jest Emma Woodhouse, rozpuszczona młoda kobieta, która zbyt wysoko ocenia swoje umiejętności jako swatka, nie dostrzega niebezpieczeństwa, jakie pociąga za sobą...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Letters of Jane Austen; Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally...

(A Modern Library E-Book)Sense and Sensibility is one of the best loved of Jane Austen's novels, populated by great comic creations like Mrs. Jennings, the unscrupulous cad Willoughby, and guileless and artful women. As ever, Austen suffuses her work with great ironic observation and tremendous wit, producing a masterpiece of romantic...

The Wild and Wanton EditionPersuasion, Jane Austen's final published work, is a story of second chances. A very young Frederick Wentworth and Anne Elliot are broken-hearted when their hasty engagement is dissolved due to Frederick's lack of prestige and lack of money. Eight years later, they are still healing when they are thrust into the...