The Complete Novels of Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility / Pride and Prejudice / Mansfield Park / Emma / Northanger Abbey / Persuasion (Leather-bound Classics)

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Lo and behold, by some miraculous intervention I was persuaded to try again to see if I could appreciate her work, and this time not just with one novel, but to plough through all her famous books.

The shortest of her novels, ‘Persuasion’ is ultimately my favorite, though Pride, Mansfield, and Emma are also indisputable. Jane Austen revolutionized the literary romance, using it as a platform from which to address issues of gender politics and class consciousness among the British middle-class of the late eighteenth century. The most gentle love story from Austen repertoire, with the usual cache of gentle women and men following a normal course of life for their day while falling into easy traps of faults or follies and realising their mistakes and generally rising above, with their counterpart of men and women of small follies or serious faults of character providing examples of how not to be or behave. Der Inhalt spiegelt die damalige Epoche wider und erzählt in einem unaufgeregten Stil romantische Geschichten von starken Frauen. Mine is the Literary Classics/Gramercy edition that has all the published novels plus Lady Susan, which, while I consider it to be not quite on the level of Austen's true masterpieces, is extremely worth reading, both as a piece of interesting Austenalia, and in its own right as a novel.This yielded a fresh and increased appreciation for Austen as one of the rightful heirs to Shakespeare for her rich characterization and penetrating insight. Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility are true classics, and Emma and Persuasion are also wonderful. But she behaved normally, and refused him with a growing wrath when he proposed - it was not his money, but to begin with the truth of his letter, and then the regard his household had for him, the people who knew him the most, and subsequently his more than civil behaviour towards her relatives who were only middle class, and his obvious attempts to have his sister know her and have her for a friend - these wer the successive steps that changed her more and more. I got this anthology for a class and I thought it might be easier to put this up rather than each Jane Austen novel. The biggest flaw to me is the absence of table of content for the chapters of each novel in this book which makes it rather difficult to navigate.

Here she remained, except for a few visits to London, until in May 1817 she moved to Winchester to be near her doctor.

Austen was born in the small English town of Steventon in Hampshire, and educated at home by her clergyman father. Families come after families but, as far as I can learn, it is not one in a hundred of them that have any real property, landed or funded. Austen's heroines do not flout convention entirely, but they make up their own minds about what they want in life and then, within reason, they take it, despite the protests of those whom they have hitherto looked up to and obeyed.

Her plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security. If you're new to Austen's work, Persuasion is the shortest read and should provide you with a good foundation for her writing style. In between was his aunt arriving haughtily to obtain a reassuarance from her to the effect that she would not marry him - which not only made her stubborn but made the three concerned (the two and the aunt) realise that she might be considering it seriously, although his offer had not been left on the table indefinitely. Die Ober- und Unterseite ist aus schönem roten Stoff (wahrscheinlich Leinen), der Schuber insgesamt wirkt stabil und hochwertig.This volume brings together her seven great novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion and Lady Susan. Sind Jane Austens Romane mittlerweile vollständig überbewertet und veraltet – oder tatsächlich relevanter denn je?

Pride and Prejudice- Austen is not interested in fleeting moments of heat and sexual lust; she portrays true and lasting romantic attachments, relationships that are strong and real.Austen was gifted with a keen observation of human nature and possessed a refined sense of the satirical, a master at setting off events with the clash of weak versus strong characters, and how all things will settle themselves for better or worse, depending on the choices each person makes. He surprised her by quitting Clara immediately on their all joining and agreeing to walk, and by addressing his attentions entirely to herself. It was saved in my estimation by a very compelling heroine who knew exactly what she wanted from life and sought after it. She is at her best in such books as Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1816), in which she examines and often ridicules the behavior of small groups of middle-class characters.