Mme Bennet a cinq filles et compte bien les marier toutes, ce qui n'est pas une tache facile dans l'Angleterre du debut du XIXe siecle. Non que les demoiselles Bennett soient laides, mais elles n'ont pas de fortune. Et cinq maris riches, ce n'est pas si facile a trouver. Surtout quand les filles en questions s'en melent; elles qui ont des prejuges, eprouvent des sentiments, et n'agissent pas forcement toujours pour trouver "un bon parti.""

Orgueil Et Pr�jug�s: Les Cinq Filles de Mrs Bennet

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).

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La jeune et naïve Catherine Morland est invitée par des voisins de ses parents à passer quelques semaines à Bath. Là, elle se lie d'amitié avec la jeune et inconstante Isabelle Thorpe et son frère, le présomptuteux John qui se pose rapidement en prétendant de Catherine. Elle y rencontre également Henry Tilney et sa charmante soeur Eléonore. Catherine n'est pas insensible au charme de Henry. Aussi, quand le père d'Henry invite Catherine à passer quelques jours dans sa maison, elle est au comble du bonheur. D'autant plus que Catherine, très imprégnée par ses lectures de romans gothiques alors très à la mode, apprend que la demeure de M. Tilney est une ancienne abbaye: Northanger Abbey...

Catherine Morland: Northanger Abbey

Catherine Morland est une jeune fille dont l'esprit déborde d'imagination. Passionnée de littérature gothique, elle brûle de découvrir le monde, qu'elle se figure identique à ses rêveries. L'occasion se présente quand elle est conviée à séjourner dans la ville de Bath par ses voisins, Mr et Mrs Allen. Catherine prend alors conscience des tourments de la vie mondaine mais fait la rencontre du bel Henry Tilney. Quand ce dernier l'invite à passer quelque temps dans la demeure familiale, l'antique Abbaye de Northanger, Catherine est aux anges. Ses espoirs si romanesques seront-ils déçus ?

Northanger abbey

When Henry Dashwood dies, he leaves his entire fortune and his home, Norland Park, to his son John. John promises that he will provide for his stepmother, Mary Dashwood, and half-sisters Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret. However, John's wife, Fanny, convinces him to give the family a smaller inheritance than he had intended. Left with only this small income, Mrs. Dashwood and her daughters decide to leave Norland immediately ...

Sense and Sensibility - Illustrated - Unabridged - original text of the first edition (1811) - with 40 illustrations by Hugh Thomson

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

Emma Woodhouse n’a jamais été amoureuse. Elle revendique hautement le célibat, mais elle adore marier les autres. Il y a de multiples intrigues dans Emma : celles que la jeune fille invente, celles qu’elle fomente, celles qui existent et qu’elle ne voit pas, celles qu’elle contrecarre, celles qu’on lui suggère. Partant d’un groupe limité de jeunes gens, le roman parcourt l’ensemble des couples possibles selon une logique combinatoire assez comique qui évoquerait presque l’arbre des probabilités.Pour le lecteur français, ce roman brillant et drôle, centré sur les manigances d’une « marieuse », les dégâts « collatéraux » qu’elle suscite, la manière dont l’amour frappe, la manière dont on y succombe – ou dont on cherche à s’en préserver – peut évoquer le meilleur des comédies de Marivaux, qui se donnait pour tâche de débusquer l’amour des niches où il se cache dans le cœur humain, et la finesse de Musset.

Emma

Elinor et Marianne Dashwood sont deux soeurs aux caractères bien différents. Privées de leur héritage à la mort de leur père, elles doivent quitter le Sussex en compagnie de leur cadette Margaret et de leur mère. Dans le Devon, elles ne tardent pas à s'habituer à leur désormais modeste quotidien au contact de leurs nouveaux voisins. Mais lorsqu'elles tombent amoureuses, Elinor et Marianne se retrouvent tiraillées entre ce que leur impose la raison et ce que leur dicte leur coeur.

Sense and Sensibility

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 '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.'

 Spirited and impulsive, Marianne Dashwood is the complete opposite to her controlled and sensible sister, Elinor. When it comes to matters of the heart, Marianne is passionate and romantic and soon falls for the charming, but unreliable Mr Willoughby. Elinor, in contrast, copes stoically with the news that her love, Edward Ferrars is promised to another.

 It is through their shared experiences of love that both sisters come to learn that the key to a successful match comes from finding the perfect mixture of rationality and feeling.

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