Raison et Sensibilité, Tome II

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

She was the youngest of the two daughters of a most affectionate, indulgent father; and had, in consequence of her sister's marriage, been mistress of his house from a very early period. Her mother had died too long ago for her to have more than an indistinct remembrance of her caresses; and her place had been supplied by an excellent woman as governess, who had fallen little short of a mother in affection.

Emma

Sentido y sensibilidad fue la primera novela en publicarse de las siete que debemos al genio Británico, Jane Austen. Son sus protagonistas las jóvenes hermanas Dashwood, quienes, desde caracteres contrapuestos, comparten el mismo afán por la búsqueda de la felicidad. Elinor, la mayor, representa el "sentido del título y Marianne representa la "sensibilidad" (emoción).

Sentido y sensibilidad

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the character of her father and mother, her own person and disposition, were all equally against her. Her father was a clergyman, without being neglected, or poor, and a very respectable man, though his name was Richard-and he had never been handsome. He had a considerable independence besides two good livings-and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters. Her mother was a woman of useful plain sense, with a good temper, and, what is more remarkable, with a good constitution. She had three sons before Catherine was born; and instead of dying in bringing the latter into the world, as anybody might expect, she still lived on-lived to have six children more-to see them growing up around her, and to enjoy excellent health herself. A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number; but the Morlands had little other right to the word, for they were in general very plain, and Catherine, for many years of her life, as plain as any.

Northanger Abbey

Voyant leur fortune baisser peu à peu, la famille Elliot, dirigée par le baronnet Sir Walter et sa fille aînée, Elizabeth, est obligée de louer leur résidence principale, ne pouvant plus assurer leur train de vie là-bas. La famille décide donc de partir à Bath, où ils trouveront une résidence de leur rang avec un train de vie plus modeste. Tenue à l’écart du déménagement, Anne, se réfugie chez sa soeur Mary, mariée depuis peu et déjà mère de deux garçons. Là-bas, la jeune femme rencontre Frederick Wentworth, son amour de jeunesse repoussé froidement pas son père. Devenu capitaine dans la marine anglaise, celui-ci l’évite et l’ignore totalement. Acceptant le fait de n’être plus aimée, Anne se demande alors sur quelles filles des Musgroves va se porter le choix du capitaine. Mais elle risque d’être surprise, car les apparences sont trompeuses...

Persuasion

N one of the most universally loved and admired English novels, a country squire of no great means must marry off his five vivacious daughters. Jane Austen's art transformed this effervescent tale of rural romance into a witty, shrewdly observed satire of English country life. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Pride and Prejudice

« Pride and prejudice » is a romantic novel published in 1813. It's a social critique of rigidity of the society from XIX century. The main story revolves around two characters: Elizabeth Bennet y Fitzwilliam Darcy. Darcy, a landowning aristocrat who is too proud to speak to anyone. Elizabeth despite her pride and reluctance to know him. Both, must overcome their prejudices to achieve love in a hostile environment.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 - 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. Her use of biting irony, along with her realism and social commentary, have earned her acclaim among critics and scholars.

With the publications of "Sense and Sensibility" (1811), "Pride and Prejudice" (1813), "Mansfield Park" (1814) and "Emma" (1816), she achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two additional novels, "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion", both published posthumously in 1818, and began another, eventually titled "Sanditon", but died before its completion. She also left behind three volumes of juvenile writings in manuscript and another unfinished novel, "The Watsons". Her six full-length novels have rarely been out of print, although they were published anonymously and brought her moderate success and little fame during her lifetime.

A significant transition in her posthumous reputation occurred in 1833, when her novels were republished in Richard Bentley's Standard Novels series, illustrated by Ferdinand Pickering, and sold as a set. They gradually gained wider acclaim and popular readership. In 1869, fifty-two years after her death, her nephew's publication of "A Memoir of Jane Austen" introduced a compelling version of her writing career and supposedly uneventful life to an eager audience.

Austen has inspired a large number of critical essays and literary anthologies. Her novels have inspired many films, from 1940's "Pride and Prejudice" to more recent productions like "Sense and Sensibility" (1995) and "Love & Friendship" (2016).

Collection of Letters

Au décès de leur père, les soeurs Dashwood, injustement privées de leur part d'héritage, sont contraintes avec leur mère de quitter leur domaine du Sussex pour un modeste cottage dans le Devonshire. Bien qu'acceptées dès leur arrivée, elles sont confrontées à la bonne société provinciale anglaise, étroite d'esprit et à la duplicité mondaine. Si la fougueuse Marianne croit passionnément pouvoir s'affranchir des convenances et s'affiche avec le séduisant Willoughby dont elle est tombée amoureuse, sa soeur ainée, la sage et raisonnable Elinor, cache le tendre attirance que lui inspire le taciturne Edward et se refuse stoïquement à rêver. Jusqu'au jour où les prétendants disparaissent et les masques tombent... Les sentiments l'emporteront-ils toujours alors sur la raison ?

Raison et Sensibilité, Tome II

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