JANE AUSTEN

Classic / British English Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are two very different sisters. Marianne loves excitement and always shows her feelings; Elinor is quiet and has more good sense. They both fall in love and both suffer broken hearts. Will they ever find the right man to love and marry?...

Visiting the fashionable city of Bath, 17-year-old Catherine Morland looks for the excitement she finds in romantic fiction. She makes friends and falls in love. But when she is invited to Northanger Abbey, she experiences desperate unhappiness. What is real, and what is the product of her wild imagination?nbsp; ...

At the age of ten, shy, vulnerable Fanny Price leaves behind her impoverished family in Portsmouth to go and live with her rich relatives at Mansfield Park. Growing up with her cousins Tom, Edmund, Maria and Julia, she is aware that she is different from them and that her place in society cannot be taken for granted, although she is not treated...

Two sisters of opposing temperaments but who share the pangs of tragic love provide the subjects for Sense and Sensibility. Elinor, practical and conventional, is the epitome of sense; Marianne, emotional and sentimental, the embodiment of sensibility. To each comes the sorrow of unhappy love: Elinor desires a man who is promised to another while...

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"Pisanie sprawia mi najwyższą przyjemność" - zwierzała się Jane Austen, znana i lubiana autorka pogodnych, nieco ironicznych powieści z życia angielskiego ziemiaństwa. Tworzyła w bawialni rodzinnego domu, dzieląc się myślami z ukochaną siostrą. Wiele czytała, między innymi sentymentalne romanse gotyckie, dla których żywiła pełną rozbawienia...