„Lady Susan, Watsonowie, Sanditon” to trzy nowele, w tym dwa niedokończone szkice, w których autorka z właściwym sobie kunsztem eksperymentuje z formą literacką, od powieści epis...
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...
Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security'. Jane Austen's sardonic humour lays bare the stratagems, the hypocrisy and t...
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...
Najgłośniejsza powieść Jane Austen, na podstawie której zrealizowano równie głośny film. Nawiązuje do niej Helen Fielding w bestsellerowym Dzienniku Bridget Jones. Niepozbawiona ironi...
Fantastyczna Jane Austen, czyli klasyka literatury opowiedziana na nowo! Gdy umiera pan Dashwood, jego żona i córki są zmuszone opuścić rodzinną posiadłość i zamieszkać w małym, skromnym dom...
Fantastyczna Jane Austen, czyli klasyka literatury opowiedziana na nowo! Emma Woodhouse jest ładna, mądra i bogata, i nie widzi powodu, dla którego miałaby kiedykolwiek wyjść za mąż. Kocha z...
"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...
It is your turn to say something now, Mr Darcy.- I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples.
A fresh, funny and accessible retelling of Jane Austen’s classic story, with witty black and white illustrations throughout.Emma Woodhouse is pretty, clever and rich, and se...
A fresh, funny and accessible retelling of Jane Austen’s classic story, with witty black and white illustrations throughout.When she was just nineteen, Anne Elliot followed the wi...
A fresh, funny and accessible retelling of Jane Austen’s best-known story, with witty black and white illustrations throughout.Elizabeth Bennet is the second eldest in a family of...
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also ...
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectabl...
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...