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.

Lady Susan

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 bourgoisie 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 coeur, 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. L'avant-propos d'Hélène Seyrès (l'Archipel) permet de replacer dans son contexte ce classique de la littérature, dont l'auteur a influencé nombre d'écrivains majeurs, tels Henry James, Virginia Woolf ou Katherine Mansfield.

Raison et Sentiments

Un classique qui n'a pas pris une ride !À la mort de leur père, les soeurs Dashwood quittent avec leur mère le comté de Sussex pour s'établir dans la chaumière de Barton, en Devonshire. Pour la raisonnable Elinor et la sensible Maria, toutes deux ravissantes et en âge de se marier, c'est une nouvelle vie qui commence. Traduction : Isabelle de Montolieu (1751-1832). Ecrit vers 1795, Sense and Sensibility parait à Londres en 1811, et sera traduit en français dès 1815. Ce classique de la littérature de la Lady des lettres anglaises qui a influencé nombre d'écrivains majeurs, tels Henry James, Virginia Woolf ou Katherine Mansfield, est considéré comme le premier grand roman anglais du XIXe siècle. De nombreux auteurs de New Romance - Christina Lauren Anna Todd, Audrey Carlan, Mia Sheridan, Laurelin Paige, Brittainy C. Cherry, ou Lexi Ryan... - s'accordent à considérer ce grand classique de la littérature anglaise comme une référence incontournable et une source féconde d'inspiration.

Raison et sentiments

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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Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.

Emma

"Orgullo y prejuicio" es la obra más conocida de la afamada Jane Austen. Publicada por primera vez de manera anónima en 1813, sus protagonistas deben madurar para superar crisis personales. Austen los utiliza también para transmitir una perfecta imagen de la sociedad británica de principios del siglo XIX, por debajo de las apariencias y los prejuicios. A pesar de los años transcurridos, "Orgullo y prejuicio" sigue leyéndose con una modernidad sorprendente.

Orgullo y prejuicio

At the age of 10, Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, as her own parents do not have enough money to support their many children. Once at Mansfield Park, Fanny meets her cousins Tom, Maria, Edmund, and Julia, as well as Fanny's other maternal aunt, Mrs. Norris. Fanny does not feel welcome, as she is mistreated by all but her elder cousin Edmund. Her aunt Mrs. Norris, the wife of the clergyman at the Mansfield parsonage, makes herself particularly unpleasant, and treats her more like a servant than a relative. Edmund behaves kindly to her, and the two develop a friendship that grows as the years progress ...

Mansfield Park - Illustrated - Unabridged - original text of the first edition (1814) - with 40 illustrations by Hugh Thomson

Écrit en 1803, Catherine Morland (Northanger Abbey) est le premier roman de Jane Austen, même s'il n'a été publié qu'en 1818, un an après sa mort. Catherine Morland, 17 ans, accompagne des amis de sa famille à Bath où grouille la vie mondaine de son époque (livre achevé en 1803).

CATHERINE MORLAND

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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.

Lady Susan

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