Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of an English country gentleman, meets Mr Darcy, a rich man who owns land. At first, Elizabeth hates him and thinks he is proud, but slowly her feelings start to chan...
Przemiła i nieco naiwna Katarzyna Morland zostaje zaproszona przez zaprzyjaźnione z jej rodziną bezdzietne małżeństwo Allenów jako towarzyszka pobytu w Bath, modnym uzdrowisku, do któ...
Angielska prowincja na przełomie XVIII i XIX wieku. Niezbyt zamożni państwo Bennetowie mają nie lada kłopot – nadeszła pora, by wydać za mąż ich pięć dorosłych córek. Sęk w tym, że nie...
Po śmierci męża pani Dashwood wraz z dziećmi opuściła ukochany dom i zamieszkała w posiadłości Barton. Dwie z jej córek - panny na wydaniu - choć różne pod względem charakterów...
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Na początku dziewiętnastego stulecia każdy niezbyt zamożny ojciec córek - zwłaszcza kiedy miał ich na przykład pięć - nader często musiał zadawać sobie pytanie: kiedyż to w sąsiedztwie pojawi się j...
Jedna z najsłynniejszych powieści Jane Austen, Rozważna i romantyczna, ukazuje pełną wdzięku, ale i bezlitosnych norm społecznych, dziewiętnastowieczną angielską prowincję. Przedstawione w tytule k...
With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and comp...
Eight years ago Anne Elliot bowed to pressure from her family and made the decision not to marry the man she loved, Captain Wentworth. Now circumstances have conspired to bring him back into her so...
Including an introduction from writer and feminist activist Scarlett Curtis, curator of Sunday Times Bestseller Feminists Don't Wear Pink.The only thing in the world that matters to Mrs...
Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and belie...
This collection brings together Jane Austen’s earliest experiments in the art of fiction and novels that she left incomplete at the time of her premature death in 1817. Her fragmentary juveni...
"Pride and Prejudice", which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it, the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only on...
Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible. 'Handsome, clever, and rich', Emma is also an 'imaginist', 'on fire with spe...
Emma is young, rich and independent. She has decided not to get married and instead spends her time organising her acquaintances' love affairs. Her plans for the matrimonial success of her new frie...
Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from the other after they are they are forced by their father's death to leave their home and enter into the contests of po...
What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most ...
Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results.The diffident and much put-upon he...
When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr Darcy she is repelled by his overbearing pride, and prejudice towards her family. But the Bennet girls are in need of financial security in the shape of husbands, so ...
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's classic novel of manne...