Une veuve spirituelle et jolie, mais sans un sou, trouve refuge chez son beau-frère, un riche banquier. Est-elle sans scrupules, prête à tout pour faire un beau mariage, ou juste une coquette qui veut s'amuser ? Le jeune Reginald risque de payer cher la réponse à cette question... Grande dame du roman anglais, Jane Austen trace le portrait très spirituel d'une aventurière, dans la lignée des personnages d'Orgueil et préjugé et de Raison et sentiments.

Lady Susan

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

However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.

Pride and Prejudice

Dans les premières années du XIXe siècle, loin des guerres de Napoléon, au sud-ouest de l'Angleterre, une fille de pasteur anglican, qui n'est ni très riche, ni très pauvre, ni savante, ni illettrée, qui n'a aucune aventure exceptionnelle, et qui n'épousera pas un lord, entreprend singulièrement de dire en prose de fiction quelque chose d'irracontable et de jamais encore raconté : comment une jeune fille, entre toutes les contraintes de la famille, du monde et des mœurs, devient une personne entière, autonome et invincible. Et ce faisant Jane Austen crée d'un seul coup une branche nouvelle, unique, étonnante, imprévisible du roman anglais, qui est surtout le roman des anglaises, avec sa prose silencieuse, énigmatique, la prose du non-dit, de la réticence, et de la retenue. ; celle qui, après elle s'avance vers sa floraison, peut-être ultime, en Henry James et Virginia Woolf. Orgueil et Préjugés est le plus connu des six romans achevés de Jane Austen. Son histoire, sa question, est en apparence celle d'un mariage : l'héroïne, la vive et ironique Elizabeth Bennett qui n'est pas riche, aimera-t-elle le héros, le riche et orgueilleux Darcy ? Si oui, en sera-t-elle aimée ? Si oui encore, l'épousera-t-elle ? Mais il apparaît clairement qu'il n'y a en fait qu'un héros qui est l'héroïne, et que c'est par elle, en elle et pour elle que tout se passe.

Orgueil et Préjugés

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES - THE CLASSIC REGENCY ROMANCE NOW WITH ULTRAVIOLENT ZOMBIE MAYHEM

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.

Miss Emma Woodhouse of Hartfield lives in the small town of Highbury, and is young, pretty, and rich. Though she has decided she will never marry, Emma takes credit for matchmaking her friend and former governess, Miss Taylor, to the widower Mr. Weston. Emma decides to organize marriages for others of her acquaintance, despite friendly warnings not to meddle from Mr. Knightley, who is both an old friend, her brother-in-law, and the wealthy owner of Donwell Abbey. Emma resolves to marry her new friend, a pretty orphan named Harriet Smith, to the young parish priest Mr. Elton. This fails once Emma realizes to her horror that Elton desires to marry her instead.

New arrivals come to Highbury, including young orphan Miss Fairfax and Elton's new pretentious wife. Frank Churchill, the handsome son of Mr. Weston, also arrives generating interest and gossip. Emma, so sure of her ability to judge the feelings of others, believes that Frank wishes to marry her. Eventually the town discovers that Frank and Miss Fairfax have been secretly engaged, while Emma comes to recognize her true feelings for Mr. Knightley ...

Emma - Illustrated - Unabridged - original text of the first edition (1816) - with 40 illustrations by Hugh Thomson

Emma Watson retourne vivre parmi les siens dans le Surreyaprès plusieurs années passées chez une tante fortunée. Rédigée en 1804, cette nouvelle rassemble tous les thèmesqui feront le succès de Jane Austen.

Les Watson

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

Biographical noteJane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction set among the gentry have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature. She was born in Steventon rectory on 16th December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath and then to Chawton in Hampshire. She wrote from a young age and Pride and Prejudice was begun when she was twenty-two years old. It was initially rejected by the publisher she submitted it to and eventually published in 1813 after much revision. All four of her novels - Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1815) published in her lifetime were published anonymously. Jane Austen died on 18th July 1817. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (both 1817) were published posthumously. Main descriptionPart of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. During an eventful season at Bath, young, naïve Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who shares Catherine's love of Gothic romance and horror, and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father's mysterious house, Northanger Abbey. There, her imagination influenced by novels of sensation and intrigue, Catherine imagines terrible crimes committed by General Tilney. With its broad comedy and irrepressible heroine, this is the most youthful and and optimistic of Jane Austen's works.

Lady Susan

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