Jane Austen

Seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland is one of ten children of a country clergyman. Although a tomboy in her childhood, by the age of 17 she is "in training for a heroine" and is excessively fond of reading Gothic novels, among which Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho is a favourite. Catherine is invited by the Allens, her wealthier neighbours in Fullerton, to accompany them to visit the town of Bath and partake in the winter season of balls, theatre and other social delights. Although initially the excitement of Bath is dampened by her lack of acquaintances, she is soon introduced to a clever young gentleman, Henry Tilney, with whom she dances and converses. Much to Catherine's disappointment, Henry does not reappear in the subsequent week and, not knowing whether or not he has left Bath for good, she wonders if she will ever see him again. Through Mrs Allen's old school-friend Mrs Thorpe, she meets her daughter Isabella, a vivacious and flirtatious young woman, and the two quickly become friends. Mrs Thorpe's son John is also a friend of Catherine's older brother, James, at Oxford where they are both students. James and John arrive unexpectedly in Bath. While Isabella and James spend time together, Catherine becomes acquainted with John, a vain and crude young gentleman who incessantly tells fantastical stories about himself. Henry Tilney then returns to Bath, accompanied by his younger sister Eleanor, who is a sweet, elegant, and respectable young lady. Catherine also meets their father, the imposing General Tilney.

Presentation: Written in epistolary form (like her new Lady Susan, which she later wrote and was not published), in 1790, when Jane Austen was fourteen, Love and Freindship is believed to be, One of the tales she wrote for the amusement of her family. The various episodes, a series of letters from the heroine, Laura, to Marianne, the daughter of her friend Isabel, "the Countess of Feullide", may have been created to be read by Jane Austen to her family, The family readings that took place at night in the house of the Austen. Love and Freindship (and not Love and Friendship, which is one of the many spelling mistakes of history) is clearly a parody of the novels that Jane Austen read in her childhood. The subtitle alone suffices to prove it: Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love, which in a way contradicts the title. In form, the story resembles a fairy tale, featuring extraordinary coincidences and returns of fortune, but Jane Austen shows herself resolved to embarrass the conventions of romance stories, up to and including in complete failure Of romantic fainting, which end here always badly for the female characters. In this story already appear the acute humor and disdain of the romantic emotion that Jane Austen will show in the novels of his maturity.

Jane Austen’s most ambitious novel, Mansfield Park, has always generated debate. Austen herself noted that debate when she conducted a reader survey, recording her acquaintances’ mixed reviews in a booklet she entitled “Opinions of Mansfield Park.” Is this novel’s dutiful heroine, Fanny Price, admirable? Or is she (as Austen’s own mother asserted) “insipid”? Is Fanny actually the heroine, or does that title belong more properly to her rival, Mary Crawford? Does Fanny’s uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, act as her benefactor, or as a domestic tyrant? In her notes and introduction to this final volume in Harvard’s celebrated annotated Austen series, Deidre Shauna Lynch outlines the critical disagreements Mansfield Park has sparked and suggests that Austen’s design in writing the novel was to highlight, not downplay, the conflicted feelings its plot and heroine can inspire. Lynch also engages head-on with the novel’s experimentalism, its technical virtuosity, and its undiminished capacity, two centuries later, to disturb and to move. Annotations clarify the nuances of Austen’s language and explain the novel’s literary allusions and its engagements with topical controversies over West Indian slavery and the conduct of Britain’s war against France. The volume’s numerous illustrations enable readers to picture the world Mansfield Park’s characters inhabit, underscoring the novel’s close attention to setting and setting’s impact on character. Mansfield Park: An Annotated Edition opens up facets of the novel for even devoted Janeites while extending an open hand to less experienced readers. It will be a welcome addition to the shelf of any library.

Odno iz samykh proslavlennykh proizvedenij psikhologicheskogo realizma v mirovoj literature. Roman, neodnokratno ekranizirovannyj. Kniga, s kotoroj fakticheski nachalsja «zolotoj vek zhenskoj anglijskoj prozy», podarivshij nam mnozhestvo bessmertnykh shedevrov. Istorija osirotevshikh docherej nebogatogo provintsialnogo pomeschika i ikh neprostogo puti k obreteniju supruzheskogo schastja ne oshelomljaet obiliem sobytij i ne potrjasaet voobrazhenie romanticheskimi prikljuchenijami i burnymi strastjami - odnako imenno v nej, vpervye v evropejskoj proze, pojavljaetsja geroinja s novym tipom kharaktera: umnaja, ironichnaja, reshitelnaja, vosprinimajuschaja ljubov prezhde vsego kak ravnoe partnerstvo, blizost i vzaimoponimanie. Ne potomu li romany Osten po-prezhnemu interesny?

Mansfield Park is the third published novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1814. The novel tells the story of Fanny Price starting when her overburdened family sends her at age 10 to live in the household of her wealthy aunt and uncle, through to her marriage

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. "My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?" Mr. Bennet replied that he had not. "But it is," returned she; "for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it." Mr. Bennet made no answer. "Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently. "You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it." This was invitation enough. "Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it, that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week."....

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En esta novela se reunen los tres cuadernos que Jane Austen escribio a muy temprana edad (13-14 anos), y que ella misma llamo volumenes y numero colectivamente del I al III. Hay textos que no corrigio nunca, pero otros son piezas muy evolucionadas que la autora reviso justo antes de la publicacion de Juicio y sentimiento. En los textos prevalece un humor mas desatado en inventiva de lo que sera normal en la autora, pero muy parecida al resto de su obra en los aspectos ironicos e incisivos.