Jane Austen

Love and Freindship sic] is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790. From the age of eleven until she was eighteen, Jane Austen wrote her tales in three notebooks. The notebooks still exist - one in the Bodleian Library; the other two in the British Museum. They include among others Love and Freindship, written when Jane was fourteen, and The History of England, when she was fifteen. Written in epistolary form, like her later unpublished novella, Lady Susan, Love and Freindship is thought to be one of the tales she wrote for the amusement of her family; it was dedicated to her cousin Eliza de Feuillide, "La Comtesse de Feuillide". The instalments, written as letters from the heroine Laura, to Marianne, the daughter of her friend Isabel, may have come about as nightly readings by the young Jane in the Austen home. Love and Freindship (the misspelling is one of many in the story) is clearly a parody of romantic novels Austen read as a child. This is clear even from the subtitle, "Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love", which completely undercuts the title. In form, it resembles a fairy tale as much as anything else, featuring wild coincidences and turns of fortune, but Austen is determined to lampoon the conventions of romantic stories, right down to the utter failure of romantic fainting spells, which always turn out badly for the female characters. In this story one can see the development of Austen's sharp wit and disdain for romantic sensibility, so characteristic of her later novels.

"Stolthet och fördom" av Jane Austen är en klassisk roman som följer historien om familjen Bennet, särskilt den näst äldsta dottern Elizabeth och hennes stormiga relation med den stolte Mr. Darcy. Satt i 1800-talets England utforskar romanen teman som kärlek, social klass och förväntningar på kvinnor under tidsperioden.

Extrait: La famille des Dashwood tait depuis long-temps tablie dans le comt de Sussex. Leurs domaines taient tendus, et leur r sidence habituelle tait Norland-Park, au centre de leurs propri t s, o plusieurs g n rations avaient v cu avec honneur, aim es et respect es de leurs vassaux et de leurs voisins. Le dernier possesseur de ces biens, tait un vieux c libataire, qui pendant long-temps avait v cu avec une soeur charg e de diriger l' conomie de sa maison, en m me temps qu'elle tait sa fid le compagne. Elle mourut dix ans avant lui, et pour r parer cette perte, il invita un neveu, qui devait h riter de ses terres, venir vivre aupr s de lui avec toute sa famille. Ce neveu, M. Henri Dashwood tait mari , et il avait des enfans. Le bon vieillard trouva dans leur soci t un bonheur qui lui tait inconnu, et son attachement pour eux tous s'augmenta chaque jour. Monsieur et madame Henri Dashwood soign rent sa vieillesse bien moins par int r t que par bont de coeur, et la ga t des enfans, et leurs douces caresses anim rent le soir de sa vie et la prolong rent.

The Dashwood sisters love too passionately...and, it seems, without reciprocal feelings from the men they choose. But lust can change a man...and a woman. If love is never sane, then lust certainly is all passion. Elinor Dashwood cannot explain her affection for polite, reserved Edward Ferrars. In contrast, her younger sister Marianne endlessly extols the visage and virtues of dashing John Willoughby. Frustrated and lonely, Elinor yearns for Edward's touch and some declaration of his regard. Yet she loves him. Marianne eagerly surrenders to rapture in Willoughby's arms-and cannot even consider the constancy of quiet, compassionate Colonel Brandon. Neither sister can escape the draw of lust. But as they learn more about those men they adore, they learn that love can be both sensible and sensational.

Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, though she had previously made a start on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. According to Cassandra Austen's Memorandum, Susan (as it was first called) was written circa 1798-99. It was revised by Austen for the press in 1803, and sold in the same year for 10 to a London bookseller, Crosby & Co., who decided against publishing. In the spring of 1816, the bookseller was content to sell it back to the novelist's brother, Henry Austen, for the exact sum- 10-that he had paid for it at the beginning, not knowing that the writer was by then the author of four popular novels. Northanger Abbey follows seventeen-year-old Gothic novel aficionado Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath. It is Catherine's first visit there. She meets new friends, such as Isabella Thorpe, and goes to balls. Catherine finds herself pursued by Isabella's brother, the rough-mannered, slovenly John Thorpe, and by her real love interest, Henry Tilney. She also becomes friends with Eleanor Tilney, Henry's younger sister. Henry captivates her with his view on novels and his knowledge of history and the world. General Tilney (Henry and Eleanor's father) invites Catherine to visit their estate, Northanger Abbey, which, from her reading of Ann Radcliffe's Gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho, she expects to be dark, ancient and full of Gothic horrors and fantastical mystery.

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 between 1792 and 1797, 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.

Anne Elliot is 27, and unmarried. Years ago, she fell in love with a man named Frederick Wentworth, a handsome young naval officer, but as he was poor, he was considered to be an unsuitable match, and Anne's friend, Lady Russell, convinced her to break the engagement. But now Anne runs into Frederick again. It's been eight long years, and Frederick is a captain and he's wealthy. He announces that he is ready to marry any suitable young woman who catches his eye. Any woman other than Anne, that is. After all, she rejected him and he refuses to forgive her. This was Jane Austen's final novel. It was published shortly after her death. This Large Print Edition is presented in easy-to-read 16 point type.

Mansfield Park is a novel by Jane Austen, written at Chawton Cottage between February 1811 and 1813. It was published in May 1814 by Thomas Egerton, who published Jane Austen's two earlier novels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. When the novel reached a second edition in 1816, its publication was taken over by John Murray, who also published its successor, Emma. The main character, Fanny Price, is a young girl from a large and relatively poor family, who is taken from them at age 10 to be raised by her rich uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas, a baronet, and Lady Bertram, of Mansfield Park. She had previously lived with her own parents, (half-pay) Lieut. Price of the Royal Marines and his wife, Frances (Fanny), Lady Bertram's sister. She is the second child and eldest daughter, with seven siblings born after her. She has a firm attachment to her older brother, William, who at the age of 12 enters the Royal Navy as a midshipman with help from his rich uncle's interest. With so many mouths to feed on a limited income, Fanny's mother is grateful for the opportunity to send Fanny away to live with her fine relatives. At Mansfield Park, Fanny grows up with her four older cousins, Tom, Edmund, Maria, and Julia, but is always treated like a poor relation. Only Edmund shows her real kindness. He is also the most good-natured of the siblings: Maria and Julia are vain and spoiled, while Tom is an irresponsible gambler. Over time, Fanny's gratitude for Edmund's thoughtfulness secretly grows into romantic love. Her other maternal aunt, Mrs. Norris, the local parson's wife, showers attention and affection on her Bertram nieces, particularly Maria, but is verbally abusive and mean-spirited toward Fanny. She tries to exclude Fanny from outings and other pleasures, even denying her a fire in her room.

Anne Elliott och kapten Frederick Wentworth möttes och förälskade sig när de var mycket unga, men skildes åt av beskäftiga släktingar. När de många år senare möts igen måste de ifrågasätta och övervinna de förutfattade meningar som en gång drev dem isär. Övertalning är Jane Austens sista roman. Den handlar om kärlek och äktenskap, och är berättad med den humor, insikt och ironi vi förväntar oss av Austen. Men liksom sin författare är hjältinnan mognare och tonen är mer allvarlig. Romanen pekar framåt mot romantiken. Övertalning kommer nu i ny översättning av Maria Ekman.