Jane Austen

L'h ro ne de Northanger Abbey est une toute jeune fille de 17 ans, na ve et sans exp rience de la soci t , lorsque commence le roman, en f vrier 1798. C'est la quatri me d'une grande famille de dix enfants, compos e de trois filles (dont elle est l'a n e) et de sept gar ons 2]. Leur p re, le R v rend Richard Morland, a la charge des mes du village de Fullerton, dans le Wiltshire. Apr s une enfance o elle appara t comme une sorte de gar on manqu un peu gauche - comportement bien excusable au demeurant, vu le nombre consid rable de ses fr res - Catherine Morland, est devenue, entre 15 et 17 ans, presque jolie, et son amour de la boue a fait place une inclination pour les beaux atours. Elle est d sormais pr te devenir l'h ro ne du roman, ayant nourri son esprit de toutes les lectures propres la pr parer cette haute destin e. Derri re la jeune fille na ve, ignorante du monde, mais l'imagination d bordante, Catherine Morland cache en effet une me sinc re et sans arri re-pens e, qui va la guider travers les emb ches du monde ext rieur qu'elle va devoir affronter.

Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, and was her first published work when it appeared in 1811 under the pseudonym "A Lady". A work of romantic fiction, better known as a comedy of manners, Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England, London and Kent between 1792 and 1797, 1] and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a meagre cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak. The philosophical resolution of the novel is ambiguous: the reader must decide whether sense and sensibility have truly merged

"Northanger Abbey" fu il primo romanzo di Jane Austen ad essere pubblicato anche se in precedenza erano gi state stese delle versioni di "Orgoglio e Pregiudizio" e di "Ragione e Sentimento". Il suo titolo originario, "Susan" (nome della protagonista che fu poi mutato in Catherine) fu rivisto per la stampa dalla Austen nel 1803, e venduto ad un editore che decise poi di non pubblicarlo. Nel 1816, il manoscritto fu ricomprato dal fratello dell'autrice (Henry) per la stessa cifra (dieci sterline) per cui era stato venduto, e l'editore fu ben contento di rivenderlo, senza sapere che la sua autrice era la stessa che aveva gi pubblicato quattro romanzi di successo (che erano state pubblicate sotto anonimato, come tutti i romanzi della Austen). La revisione finale della Austen avvenne dunque nel 1816, ma Jane mor l'anno dopo, e il romanzo fu pubblicato postumo, col titolo deciso probabilmente dal fratello, insieme all'altro romanzo postumo "Persuasion", in un set di quattro volumi complessivi. Il libro fondamentalmente una parodia dei romanzi gotici, tant' che viene spesso citato "Il castello di Udolfo" di Ann Radcliffe, e che viene esposto esplicitamente il punto di vista dell'autrice al riguardo. Si pu immaginare che quest'opera fosse intesa come umoristica per rallegrare le riunioni familiari; considerato il pi leggero dei suoi lavori. La disinvoltura, inoltre, con cui l'autrice parla direttamente al lettore in modo confidenziale ci fa conoscere il pensiero dell'autrice a quei tempi, che purtroppo non pu essere desunto dalle sue lettere private, bruciate dopo la sua morte.

"Chuvstvo i chuvstvitelnost" - odin iz luchshikh romanov zamechatelnoj anglijskoj pisatelnitsy Dzhejn Ostin, kotoruju po pravu nazyvajut "pervoj ledi" britanskoj literatury. Sredi samykh izvestnykh ee proizvedenij takie shedevry, kak "Gordost i predubezhdenie", "Emma", "Nortengerskoe abbatstvo" i drugie. "Chuvstvo i chuvstvitelnost" - eto tak nazyvaemyj roman nravov, predstavljajuschij ljubovnye istorii dvukh sester: odna iz nikh sderzhanna i rassuditelna, drugaja so vsej strastju otdaetsja dushevnym perezhivanijam. Serdechnye dramy na fone uslovnostej obschestva i predstavlenij o dolge i chesti stanovjatsja nastojaschim "vospitaniem chuvstv" i venchajutsja zasluzhennym schastem. Zhizn bolshogo semejstva, kharaktery geroev i peripetii sjuzheta opisany Dzhejn Ostin legko, ironichno i proniknovenno, s nepodrazhaemym jumorom i chisto anglijskoj sderzhannostju.

Forever immortalised as the author of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen actually produced her first 'books' as a teenager. Taking their names from the inscriptions on their covers - Volume the First, Volume the Second, and Volume the Third - these brilliant little collections include the stories, playlets, verses, and moral fragments she wrote likely from the ages of 12 to 18. As a young author, Jane Austen delighted in language, employing it with great humour and surprising skill. She was adept at parodying the popular stories of her day and entertained her readers with outrageous plotlines and characters. Kathryn Sutherland places Austen's earliest works in context and explains how she mimicked even the style and manner in which this contemporary popular fiction was presented and arranged on the page. Volume the Second, housed at the British Library, contains Austen's famous The History of England, illustrated with watercolour portraits by her sister Cassandra, as well as Love and Friendship, Lesley Castle, and several letters and fragments she calls "scraps". This notebook was compiled between June 1790 and June 1793, from ages 14 to 17. None of her six famous novels survives in complete manuscript form. This is a unique opportunity to own likenesses of Jane Austen's notebooks as originally written - in her own hand. Learn more about the other books in the In Her Own Hand series: Volume the First and Volume the Third. All three volumes are also available in the In Her Own Hand series boxed set.

Forever immortalised as the author of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen actually produced her first 'books' as a teenager. Taking their names from the inscriptions on their covers - Volume the First, Volume the Second, and Volume the Third - these brilliant little collections include the stories, playlets, verses, and moral fragments she wrote likely from the ages of 12 to 18. As a young author, Jane Austen delighted in language, employing it with great humour and surprising skill. She was adept at parodying the popular stories of her day and entertained her readers with outrageous plotlines and characters. Kathryn Sutherland places Austen's earliest works in context and explains how she mimicked even the style and manner in which this contemporary popular fiction was presented and arranged on the page. Volume the Third, written when Austen was 16, includes two stories: Evelyn and Kitty, or the Bower (or 'Catharine'). The manuscript is also held at the British Library. This volume includes text written by her niece, Anna Lefroy, who contributes an addition to Evelyn. None of her six famous novels survives in complete manuscript form. This is a unique opportunity to own likenesses of Jane Austen's notebooks as originally written - in her own hand. Learn more about the other books in the In Her Own Hand series: Volume the First and Volume the Second. All three volumes are also available in the In Her Own Hand series boxed set.

"L'Abbaye de Northanger" par Jane Austen. Jane Austen tait un romanci re anglaise (1775-1817).

"Emma" par Jane Austen. Jane Austen tait un romanci re anglaise (1775-1817).

"Raison et Sensibilit " par Jane Austen. Jane Austen tait un romanci re anglaise (1775-1817)

"Persuasion" par Jane Austen. Jane Austen tait un romanci re anglaise (1775-1817).

"La Nouvelle Emma" par Jane Austen. Jane Austen tait un romanci re anglaise (1775-1817).

"Le Parc de Mansfield" par Jane Austen. Jane Austen tait un romanci re anglaise (1775-1817)

"Orgueil et Pr vention" par Jane Austen. Jane Austen tait un romanci re anglaise (1775-1817)

"La Famille Elliot" par Jane Austen. Jane Austen tait un romanci re anglaise (1775-1817).