Jane Austen Collection

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What transpires when they encounter each other again is movingly told in this love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities. In Northanger Abbey, Austen takes a satirical swipe at the gothic novel in this classic book bursting with sly subversive wit. Each expertly abridged novel has been selected for its narrative power, range of characters and its place in our literary heritage. Obsessed with Gothic fiction, seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland is wintering in Bath when she encounters dashing gentleman Henry Tilney and the charismatic Thorpe siblings. When the Crawford siblings enter their lives, Fanny seems to be the only one unaffected by their charms.

Mansfield Park is considered one of Austen's darker novels, challenging the very values of tradition, stability, retirement and faithfulness it appears to endorse. At the time of her death, she was working on a new novel, Sanditon, a fragmentary draft of which survives. Austen fans who appreciated the Seasons collection with love this fine edition from their beloved literary hero.

Applicability of cancellation rights: Legal rights of cancellation under the Distance Selling Regulations available for UK or EU consumers do not apply to certain products and services. The first adventure in the Folio Society editions of ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ series, Enid Blyton’s The Enchanted Wood features Jonathan Burton’s enchanting illustrations and a new introduction by Michael Morpurgo. This series of books is complementary in style and design to the original Seasons Collection published by Thomas Nelson. She finds him arrogant, conceited, and indifferent, disliking him even more when she discovers he has interfered in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and Elizabeths older sister Jane. Registered office address: Unit 34 Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EF.

The collection features illustrations in each book and a more simplified text without losing any of the important plot details. description] => When the celebrated author Jane Austen made Bath her home, from 1801 to 1806, the city was a thrivin. Knightley, and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protégée, Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected. She finds him arrogant, conceited, and indifferent, disliking him even more when she discovers he has interfered in the relationship between his friend Bingley and Elizabeth's older sister Jane.

Charmed Life arrives in an explosion of magic in this edition illustrated by Alison Bryant and introduced by Katherine Rundell. These are Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma(1816). Through her vivacious and spirited heroines and their circle, she paints vivid portraits of English middle-class life as the eighteenth century came to a close.

She also left two earlier compositions, a short epistolary novel, Lady Susan, and an unfinished novel, The Watsons. The witty and sharply satirical novels of Jane Austen have an influence that shows no sign of waning, with continual adaptations and echoes in contemporary culture, and an ever-enthusiastic audience. Northanger Abbey tells the story of a young girl, Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy, sophisticated world of Bath in the late 1790s. Authors span the full spectrum from the brooding romance of the Bronte sisters and George Elliot to the gothic charms of Charles Dickens and Henry James. Our team is made up of book lovers who are dedicated to sourcing and providing the best books for kids.

Her first published novel was Sense and Sensibility , which appeared in 1811 and was soon followed by Pride and Prejudice , Mansfield Park and Emma . What transpires when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. I was a bit sceptical about this due to the reviews but what I expected came and within the time expected.