Jane Austen

"I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives." "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything." Persuasion (1817) by Jane Austen is a classic known for the remarkable depiction of its mature heroine, Anne Elliot. She is a 27-year-old woman whose engagement was broken off with Captain Frederick Wentworth seven years ago. When Anne's family lets Kellynch Hall to Wentworth's sister, Sophia and her husband, Anne and Wentworth encounter each other once again and their lives take unexpected turns.

Sense and Sensibility, is a novel by Jane Austen that was published in three volumes in 1811 and became a classic. The comic work offers a lucid depiction of 19th-century middle-class life as it follows the romantic relationships of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. While focusing on the sisters Elinor and Marianne, the novel tells the story of the impoverished Dashwood family. After sisters become destitute upon the death of their father, they leave to John, their half- brother who is instructed to take care of them. But John is dissuaded of his duty by Fanny, his greedy wife. Initially, titled as Elinor and Marianne, Austen significantly revised it in 1809. It was her first published novel. Sense and Sensibility contains what would become Austen's trademark features: insightful observation, characterization, and wit. Upon publication, Sense and Sensibility was a success and it later was adapted for film, stage, and television. After its commercial success, it spurred a resurgence of interest in Austen's other novels.

Jane Austen, Unabridged takes readers on a journey through the prolific author's life with private letters, unpublished works and facts no one knew about a woman who revolutionized the romance genre. Jane Austen is arguably one of the best English novelists of our time, known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favorable social standing and economic security. Her works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. Her use of biting irony, along with her realism, humor, and social commentary, have long earned her acclaim among critics, scholars, and popular audiences alike. This memoir of the late English novelists life includes never before seen teenage writings, letters to family members, a lost love and even three of her unpublished works such as Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sandition.

Lady Susan är en underhållande brevroman och ett av Jane Austens tidiga verk, skriven 1793-94, men utgiven postumt. I brev som skickas mellan romanens karaktärer får vi följa änkan Susan Vernons försök att skaffa både sig själv och sin dotter ett gott parti. Susan är inte bara bedövande vacker utan också intelligent och kvick. Men där slutar likheterna med den typiska hjältinnekaraktären. I breven tecknas ett porträtt av en självisk, hänsynslös och manipulativ kvinna som spelar ett cyniskt och slugt spel med männen i sin omgivning. Lady Susan sticker ut bland Jane Austens verk, bland annat i det att Susans omoraliska beteende inte straffas lika hårt som liknande handlingar gör i Austens övriga böcker. JANE AUSTEN (1775-1817) är med sina kärleksromaner en av den engelskspråka litteraturens klassiska författare. Hon föddes i Hampshire som det sjunde barnet av åtta. Hennes pappa, som var kyrkoherde, uppmuntrade sina döttrar att läsa och Austen började tidigt skriva. Hennes första publicerade roman var Förnuft och känsla (originaltitel: Sense and sensibility) som gavs ut 1811. Austens romaner utspelar sig i den brittiska aristokratin och innehåller ofta undertoner av kritik mot överklassens sociala konventioner vilka hämmade främst kvinnor att finna kärlek och lycka. Austen dog av sjukdom i juli 1817.

Catherine Morland is an rather unusual heroine for Jane Austen: she is young and virtuous, but neither exceptionally beautiful nor particularly elegant, and as the daughter of a clergyman, not a really good match, even though the father is rich. Her main interest is books and their characters, and she behaves accordingly naively in real life. Her heart beats for the educated, well-bred Henry Tilney, whose sister invites her to the family's country estate Northanger Abbey. The place fires Catherine's imagination: she believes she is on the trail of a dark family secret. Gr ls-Classics - English Edition

Jane Austen's most popular novel Pride and Prejudice is an inversion of the love-at-first-sight motif: Fitzwilliam Darcy sees Elisabeth Bennet at a ball and is at first only moderately impressed - which is a mutual feeling since she can't stand the man at all. Only after countless misunderstandings - and victory over pride and prejudice, hence the title - do the two find their way to each other. Austen's novel paints a detailed and candor social portrait of her time. With wit and irony, Austen takes aim at the hypocrisy and parochialism of her time. And she very sensitively describes the desperate lot of women whose only chance back then was to marry well. Gr ls-Classics - English Edition

Jane Austen's most popular novel Pride and Prejudice is an inversion of the love-at-first-sight motif: Fitzwilliam Darcy sees Elisabeth Bennet at a ball and is at first only moderately impressed - which is a mutual feeling since she can't stand the man at all. Only after countless misunderstandings - and victory over pride and prejudice, hence the title - do the two find their way to each other. Austen's novel paints a detailed and candor social portrait of her time. With wit and irony, Austen takes aim at the hypocrisy and parochialism of her time. And she very sensitively describes the desperate lot of women whose only chance back then was to marry well. Gr ls-Classics - English Edition

In the manor house Kellynch Hall lives 27-year-old Anne Elliot, the middle of three daughters of the widower Sir Walter Elliot. Her older sister Elizabeth is rather cold-hearted and full of arrogance. Mary, the youngest, who lives in nearby Uppercross as the wife of the staid Charles Musgrove, is snivelling and conceited. Anne is very different. Her character combines reason, decency and selflessness - virtues that sadly neither her father nor her sisters appreciate. Anne is therefore at the bottom of the family pecking order. Only her maternal friend, the widowed Lady Russell, recognizes her value and stands by her with advice and support. However, Lady Russell's judgment is somewhat clouded by her excessive appreciation of rank and titles... Gr ls-Classics - English Edition

At first glance, Jane Austen's debut novel Sense and Sensibility mixes the familiar ingredients of a romantic comedy: the two pretty but almost penniless sisters Elinor and Marianne sail into the safe harbor of marriage after countless trials and tribulations. The nasty mother-in-law, the eager matchmaker and the charming good-for-nothing are also involved. Beneath the amusing surface, however, is a ironic reckoning with the constraints to which the women of upper-class English society were subjected at the beginning of the 19th century: They rarely had incomes of their own, were expected to be presentable but - god forbid - not too smart, and spent most of their time in society gossip, arranging marriages and such. It's a time, when women had no choice but to submit and marry advantageously. Gr ls-Classics - English Edition

At first glance, Jane Austen's debut novel Sense and Sensibility mixes the familiar ingredients of a romantic comedy: the two pretty but almost penniless sisters Elinor and Marianne sail into the safe harbor of marriage after countless trials and tribulations. The nasty mother-in-law, the eager matchmaker and the charming good-for-nothing are also involved. Beneath the amusing surface, however, is a ironic reckoning with the constraints to which the women of upper-class English society were subjected at the beginning of the 19th century: They rarely had incomes of their own, were expected to be presentable but - god forbid - not too smart, and spent most of their time in society gossip, arranging marriages and such. It's a time, when women had no choice but to submit and marry advantageously. Gr ls-Classics - English Edition

The fantastic novel "Emma", which has been adapted for so many movies and stage plays over the centuries, is the infamous story about youthful hubris and romantic misunderstandings. It is set in the fictional country village of Highbury. The comedy of manners involves the relationships among people from a small number of families. Jane Austens novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England. Gr ls-Classics - English Edition

Catherine Morland is an rather unusual heroine for Jane Austen: she is young and virtuous, but neither exceptionally beautiful nor particularly elegant, and as the daughter of a clergyman, not a really good match, even though the father is rich. Her main interest is books and their characters, and she behaves accordingly naively in real life. Her heart beats for the educated, well-bred Henry Tilney, whose sister invites her to the family's country estate Northanger Abbey. The place fires Catherine's imagination: she believes she is on the trail of a dark family secret. Gr ls-Classics - English Edition

In the manor house Kellynch Hall lives 27-year-old Anne Elliot, the middle of three daughters of the widower Sir Walter Elliot. Her older sister Elizabeth is rather cold-hearted and full of arrogance. Mary, the youngest, who lives in nearby Uppercross as the wife of the staid Charles Musgrove, is snivelling and conceited. Anne is very different. Her character combines reason, decency and selflessness - virtues that sadly neither her father nor her sisters appreciate. Anne is therefore at the bottom of the family pecking order. Only her maternal friend, the widowed Lady Russell, recognizes her value and stands by her with advice and support. However, Lady Russell's judgment is somewhat clouded by her excessive appreciation of rank and titles... Gr ls-Classics - English Edition

"About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income. All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and her uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it." Gr ls-Classics - English Edition

"About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income. All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and her uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it." Gr ls-Classics - English Edition

The fantastic novel "Emma", which has been adapted for so many movies and stage plays over the centuries, is the infamous story about youthful hubris and romantic misunderstandings. It is set in the fictional country village of Highbury. The comedy of manners involves the relationships among people from a small number of families. Jane Austens novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England. Gr ls-Classics - English Edition