"Emma", escrita por Jane Austen en 1815, es considerada una obra maestra de la literatura romántica. Austin retrata en ella la Inglaterra rural de principios del siglo XIX. Emma es una joven inteligente y mesurada pero con una alocada imaginación y una autosuficiencia presuntuosa. Emma aprenderá que su conducta es injusta e irreflexiva, y que su ciega presunción podría causar desgracias irreparables.

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Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that such a match is unworthy. The breakup produces in Anne a deep and long-lasting regret. When later Wentworth returns from sea a rich and successful captain, he finds Anne's family on the brink of financial ruin and his own sister a tenant in Kellynch Hall, the Elliot estate. All the tension of the novel revolves around one question: Will Anne and Wentworth be reunited in their love?Jane Austen once compared her writing to painting on a little bit of ivory, 2 inches square. Readers of Persuasion will discover that neither her skill for delicate, ironic observations on social custom, love, and marriage nor her ability to apply a sharp focus lens to English manners and morals has deserted her in her final finished work.

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A special edition featuring beautiful heritage wallpaper patterns from her own home in Hampshire, these collectable paperbacks are a must for all Jane Austen fans. From Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning classics that make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Oft-copied but never bettered, Jane Austen's Emma is a remarkable comedy of manners. Austen follows the charming but insensitive Emma Woodhouse as she sets out on an ill-fated career of match-making in the little town of Highbury. Taking the pretty but dreary Harriet Smith as her subject, Emma creates misunderstandings and chaos as she tries to find Harriet a suitor, until she begins to realize it isn't the lives of others she must try to transform. With original illustrations by the celebrated Hugh Thomson, this Macmillan Collector's Library edition also features bonus material by Jane Austen expert and curator of Jane Austen's House Sophie Reynolds.

In this historic romance, young Elizabeth Bennet strives for love, independence and honesty in the vapid high society of 19th century England.

Orgueil et Préjugés

Orgueil & Préjugés - roman à colorier

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).

Scraps - The Female Philosopher

300 citations de femmes inspirantes

La jeune et crédule Catherine Morland, férue de romans gothiques, découvre la ville de Bath, dans le Somerset. Elle y rencontre Henry Tilney, qui l'invite à séjourner à Northanger Abbey, propriété de son père. Lieu au nom évocateur, que son imagination présage étrange et inquiétant...
Las : cette abbaye fort peu sinistre est en réalité pourvue de tout le confort moderne ! Une nuit passée dans une chambre isolée apportera-t-elle à l'impressionnable héroine son lot de délicieuses terreurs, comme promis par Henry ?
Entrepris en 1798, Northanger Abbey est une parodie pleine d'esprit, publiée quelques mois après la mort de Jane Austen, en 1817. L'auteur d'Orgueil et Préjugés n'y ménage pas son ironie, visant ici les hommes, leurs chevaux et leurs rodomontades, là les femmes et leur passion des toilettes et des romans. Tous les ridicules, toutes les frivolités sont la cible de la romancière, qui bâtit l'une de ses subtiles comédies amoureuses, pleine d'humour et de bon sens.

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