Jane Austen

"Jane Austen is a genius, and Northanger Abbey is hugely underrated."-Martin Amis Catherine Morland is a young girl with a very active imagination. Her naivety and her love of sensational novels lead her to approach the fashionable social scene in Bath and her stay at nearby Northanger Abbey with preconceptions that have embarrassing and entertaining consequences.

For Jane Austen fans who treasure the art of correspondence, an elegant keepsake box filled with 100 postcards featuring the ubiquitous wit of Austens sentiments, to mail to loved ones, frame as a set, or pin to an inspiration board. Expect a most agreeable letter, for having nothing at all to say, there shall be no check to my genius from beginning to end. Jane Austens bustling life rarely left her without news to share, but even in those spare moments with nothing to pen, her incandescent wit manages to shine throughout her letters. Collected from her extensive collection of personal correspondence, this box contains 100 postcards featuring 25 of her most beloved witticisms (reproduced 4 times). Housed in a beautifully designed keepsake box, this set of postcards makes a thoughtful gift for any Austen lover.

"To create, a woman needs a room of her own" - Virginia Woolf Jane Austen began writing a novel in October 1796, while staying in a room of her own at her brother's Edward house in Kent, she finished it in August 1797 and called it "First Impressions." Between 1811 and 1812, Jane went back to work on "First Impressions" and made significant edits and revisions to the manuscript. When she finally became satisfied with her work she renamed the story "Pride and Prejudice." Jane asked 150 for the novel's copyright but Thomas Egerton, the publisher consented to only 110. Egerton published the first edition of Pride and Prejudice in three hardcover volumes on 27 January 1813 and priced the three volume set at 18 shillings (90 pence). In October 2010, a set, in a relatively good condition, of Pride and Prejudice' first T. Egerton edition was sold for 140,000 at a Sotheby's auction in London, fetching more than 150,000 times its original price. The romantic masterpiece is estimated to have sold more than 50 million copies, worldwide since it was first published and first T. Egerton editions, in a reasonably good condition, are regularly priced between 60,000 and 75,000 per copy. To celebrate both women and fiction and the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice, Pygmaion editors decided to release this edition with an introduction by Virginia Woolf and a new Lizzy on the cover imagined by Gustav Klimt.

First released January 28, 1813; this literary classic novel is now available as a special illustrated edition to commemorate the book's 200th anniversary. This concise edition includes all three original volumes, plus more than 50 illustrations by world renowned artists C. E. Brock and Hugh Thomas. Now a major motion picture; Pride and Prejudice is a romantic classical piece centered on the Bennet family. Mrs. Bennet is determined to see all her daughters married when the young and wealthy Mr. Bingley and his best friend Mr. Darcy come to the area. A romantic dance between a family's pride and the prejudice of judgment ensues.(c) 2013 Queensbridge Publishing

Ylpeys ja ennakkoluulo on rakastetun englantilaiskirjailijan Jane Austenin kenties kuuluisin teos, niin monta kertaa maalaisherrasväen älykkään ja kärkkään tyttären Elizabeth Bennetin ja ökyrikkaan herra Darcyn hitaasti syttyvä rakkaus on esimerkiksi sovitettu televisioon, teatteriin ja valkokankaalle. Mikään ei kuitenkaan voita tarttumista itse kirjaan. Ylpeys ja ennakkoluulo ei ole pelkkä rakkaustarina. Kuten muissakin Austenin teoksissa, sen romantiikan ja huumorin rinnalla tarkastellaan terävästi esimerkiksi luokkaeroja, tapojen pintakiiltoa, kasvatusta ja naisen asemaa. Aiheita, joiden ongelmat eivät ole kadonneet minnekään meidän aikanamme. Ja kirjoitettuna tavalla, joka tekee Ylpeydestä ja ennakkoluulosta ajattoman. Ylpeyden ja ennakkoluulon 200-vuotisjuhlan kunniaksi se ilmestyy nyt Kersti Juvan säkenöivänä uutena suomennoksena.

From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers--featuring cover art by type superstar Jessica Hische It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and gift-worthy hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet by superstar type designer Jessica Hische, whose work has appeared everywhere from Tiffany & Co. to Wes Anderson's film Moonrise Kingdom to Penguin's own bestsellers Committed andRules of Civility. A collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the series design encompasses foil-stamped paper-over-board cases in a rainbow-hued spectrum across all twenty-six book spines and a decorative stain on all three paper edges. Penguin Drop Caps debuts with an "A" for Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, a "B" for Charlotte Bront 's Jane Eyre, and a "C" for Willa Cather's My ntonia, and continues with more classics from Penguin. A is for Austen. Few have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet in Austen's beloved classic Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth's early determination to dislike Mr. Darcy is a prejudice only matched by the folly of his arrogant pride. Their first impressions give way to true feelings in a comedy profoundly concerned with happiness and how it might be achieved.

When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever.

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, 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. Jane Austen (16 December 1775 - 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics.