L'auteur d'Orgueil et Préjugés a écrit ses premiers romans vers l'âge de 12 ans. Trois de ses textes vous sont proposés ici, mettant en scène les principales thématiques de Jane Austen: l'humour, les relations familiales, les mariages arrangés et les différences sociales.- "Amour et Amitié"- "Les Trois Soeurs"- "Jack et Alice"

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Injustement privées de leur héritage, Elinor et Marianne Dashwood sont contraintes de quitter le Sussex pour le Devonshire, où elles sont rapidement acceptées par la bourgeoisie locale étriquée et à l'hypocrisie feutrée. L'aînée, Elinor, a dû renoncer à un amour qui semblait partagé, tandis que Marianne s'éprend bien vite du séduisant Willoughby. Si Elinor, qui représente la raison, dissimule ses peines de cœur, sa cadette étale son bonheur au grand jour, incapable de masquer ses sentiments. Jusqu'au jour où Willoughby disparaît... Publié en 1811, Raison et sentiments est considéré comme le premier grand roman anglais du XIXe siècle.

Raison et Sentiments

Depicted through letters, Lady Susan tells the story of the titular character as she seeks husbands for herself and her daughter while maintaining a clandestine relationship with a married man. It is believed that Austen wrote Lady Susan in 1794, although it was not published until 1871, long after Austen's death in 1817. Although written in Austen's trademark style, Lady Susan is remarkable among Austen's canon as Lady Susan pursues matches significantly younger than herself and for Austen's mild treatment of Lady Susan's adultery, which is more harshly punished in her other works, notably Mansfield Park. Lady Susan has been adapted for the stage and re-imagined in text. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Lady Susan

La finesse de Jane Austen n'a d'égale que la perfection de son goût. Ses fats sont fats et ses snobs sont snobs parce qu'ils s'éloignent du modèle de raison et d'équilibre qu'elle a en tête et qu'elle nous transmet alors même qu'elle nous fait rire. Aucun romancier n'a fait meilleur usage qu'elle d'un sens irréprochable des valeurs humaines. Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader, 1925.

Raison et sentiments ; Orgueil et préjugés ; Northanger Abbey - Trois chefs-d'oeuvre illustrés

Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marriage for herself, while attempting to push her daughter into a dismal match. A magnificently crafted novel of Regency manners and mores that will delight Austen enthusiasts with its wit and elegant expression.

Started in Austen's youth, Northanger Abbey was not completed until 1803. It was finally published in 1817, a year after Austen's death, in a single volume with Persuasion. Catherine Morland meets several suitors during her coming out season in bath. Henry Tilney distinguishes himself by his love of gothic novels, and his invitation to the family estate, Northanger Abbey. How could she refuse? An abbey! Gothic ruins! The fashionable novels have infiltrated our heroine's imagination to such an extent that she doesn't know which potential clue to investigate first. Perhaps the notebook hidden in her bedroom chest is a mysterious ancient manuscript? Did Tilney's mother die of natural causes? Is she even dead - old Tilney might be an evil torturer! And all these corridors, and locked doors, and whole wings to which entry is forbidden... reality and fiction blend to the reader's great delight, until finally reality gets the upper hand and our heroes find satisfaction in a happy ending. Austen's tender parody of the Gothic novel - and its devoted readers - is also a vibrant plea for the genre of the novel as a unique vehicle for the portrayal of feelings and imagination. (1765); Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794); Lewis's The Monk (1796); Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) and Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer (1820). This is a brilliant parody of the sentimental novel written when Austen was fourteen years old. It opens with the legend Deceived in Friendship and Betrayed in Love, a revelation, if one was needed, of the satirical nature of the work, and the gift for irony characteristic of Austen's later writing. It is published here with the author's original spelling.

Northanger Abbey / Love and Freindship

Lady Susan, une jeune veuve, très belle et très intelligente, mais désargentée, s'installe chez sa belle-famille, au Château de Churchill. Reginald De Courcy, lui-même en visite au château, ne tarde pas à s'éprendre de cette femme irrésistible, malgré les mises en garde de son entourage. Mais que veut au juste Lady Susan ? Cherche-t-elle un mari ? Ou désire-t-elle seulement s'amuser ? Légèreté, élégance, perversité, manigances : toutes les figures du jeu de la séduction et des manipulations amoureuses alternent dans les quarante-et-une lettres qui composent ce roman épistolaire virtuose.

MY DEAR BROTHER, -I can no longer refuse myself the pleasure of profiting by your kind invitation when we last parted of spending some weeks with you at Churchhill, and, therefore, if quite convenient to you and Mrs. Vernon to receive me at present, I shall hope within a few days to be introduced to a sister whom I have so long desired to be acquainted with. My kind friends here are most affectionately urgent with me to prolong my stay, but their hospitable and cheerful dispositions lead them too much into society for my present situation and state of mind; and I impatiently look forward to the hour when I shall be admitted into your delightful retirement...

How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my Daughter a regular detail of the Misfortunes and Adventures of your Life, have you said "No, my friend never will I comply with your request till I may be no longer in Danger of again experiencing such dreadful ones."

Surely that time is now at hand. You are this day 55. If a woman may ever be said to be in safety from the determined Perseverance of disagreeable Lovers and the cruel Persecutions of obstinate Fathers, surely it must be at such a time of Life.

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