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Emmaby Jane Austen , Annette BarnesISBN 0582417945 (0-582-41794-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emma'Book summary:Emma Woodhouse is beautiful, clever and rich. She loves "matchmaking" - arranging marriages between her friends and neighbours in the village of Highbury. However, she often creates more heartache than happiness - and what about her own chance of love ...? Jane Austen (1775-1817) is still one of the world's favourite authors and her delightful stories have been enjoyed by generations of readers. Emma was made into a film in 1997 starring Gwyneth Paltrow. [via]
Emma: Notesby Barbara Hayley, Jane AustenISBN 0582781582 (0-582-78158-2)
Softcover, Longman Publishing Group
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Jane Austen, Mansfield Park: Notesby Barbara Hayley, Jane AustenISBN 0582782910 (0-582-78291-0)
Softcover, Longman Publishing Group
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Mansfield Parkby Jane AustenISBN 0582781744 (0-582-78174-4)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mansfield Park'Book summary:Key Features: * Study methods * Introduction to the text * Summaries with critical notes * Themes and techniques * Textual analysis of key passages * Author biography * Historical and literary background * Modern and historical critical approaches * Chronology * Glossary of literary terms [via]
Penguin Readers Level 4 : Emmaby Jane AustenISBN 0582430097 (0-582-43009-7)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman, Limited
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Persuasionby Jane Austen , Julian CowleyISBN 0582414636 (0-582-41463-6)
Softcover, Pearson Education Canada
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Persuasionby Horace Avron Cartledge, Jane Austen , Shirley TourretISBN 0582530318 (0-582-53031-8)
Softcover, Longman Group (Far East), Limited
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Persuasionby Michael West, Susan Bennett, Jane Austen , Faith JaquesISBN 0582535182 (0-582-53518-2)
Softcover, Longman Group (Far East), Limited
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Persuasion: Notesby Angela Smith, Jane AustenISBN 0582781876 (0-582-78187-6)
Softcover, Longman Publishing Group
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen , E. M. AttwoodISBN 0582419352 (0-582-41935-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pride and Prejudice'Book summary:"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground.
Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree. --Alix Wilber [via]
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- Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 0582823064 (0-582-82306-4)
Softcover, Pearson Education, Limited - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 059008576X (0-590-08576-X)
Softcover, Scholastic - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 0582529131 (0-582-52913-1)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 0606019332 (0-606-01933-2)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 0582419352 (0-582-41935-2)
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Pride and Prejudice: Notesby Geoffrey Nash, Jane AustenISBN 0582780934 (0-582-78093-4)
Softcover, Longman Publishing Group
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Sense and Sensibilityby Jane AustenISBN 0582530008 (0-582-53000-8)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman, Limited
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Sense And Sensibilityby Cherry Gilchrist, Jane AustenISBN 0582416892 (0-582-41689-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sense And Sensibility'Book summary:Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:
Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!
Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr. Willoughby, a new neighbor. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes, and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Sense And Sensibility:
The Works of Jane Austenby Cherry Gilchrist, Jane AustenISBN 0600006034 (0-600-00603-4)
Hardcover, Transatlantic Arts
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