Name: The Complete Jane Austen Collection: Volume Two: Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sandition and the Complete Juvenilia (Ro
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portada The Complete Jane Austen Collection: Volume Two: Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sandition and the Complete Juvenilia (Ro

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jane Austen

Publisher

Royal Classics

Language

English

Pages

1020

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 6.2 cm

Weight

1.66 kg.

ISBN13

9781778780257

Synopsis "The Complete Jane Austen Collection: Volume Two: Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sandition and the Complete Juvenilia (Ro"

The Complete Works of Jane Austen includes all six novels, and Austen's shorter works. Volume One includes Sense and Sensibility, Pride and prejudice, and Mansfield Park. Volume Two includes Austen's novels Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion as well as her shorter works, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sandition, and the complete Juvenilia. Emma: Emma Woodhouse is a strong, independent woman, who is perfectly happy to remain single. When Emma takes on a fancy to matchmaking, she begins to interfere into the love lives of those around her. However, her eagerness to match people together, sparks unintended results that send shock waves throughout the countryside. Northanger Abbey: At the tender age of fifteen, Catherine Morland has yet to find a young man to be her prince in disguise. When she visits Northanger Abbey, she is expecting to find hidden passageways, dark secrets, and adventures worthy of the Gothic novels she holds so dear. With many challenges in her way, romance stands at the ready to right the wrongs of self-interest, deception, and greed.Persuasion: As the Napoleonic Wars come to an end in 1814, Admirals and Captains of the Royal Navy are put ashore, their work done. Anne Elliot meets her old love, Captain Frederick Wentworth, after seven years, by the chance of his sister and brother-in-law renting her father's estate. The relationship that blossoms symbolises for Anne the possibility of a more outgoing, engaged, and fulfilling life. Lady Susan: Lady Susan seeks a new husband for herself and one for her daughter. But Lady Susan is a selfish, unscrupulous and scheming woman, highly attractive to men, who tries to trap the best possible husband while maintaining a relationship with a married man. She subverts all the standards of the romantic novel: she has an active role, she is not only beautiful but intelligent and witty, and her suitors are significantly younger than she is.This case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket.

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Fue una novelista británica que vivió durante la época georgiana. Nació en la rectoría de Steventon (Hampshire). Su familia pertenecía a la gentry británica (nobleza rural o burguesía agraria), contexto del que no salió y en el que sitúa todas sus obras, siempre en torno al matrimonio de su protagonista.

Ha sido llevada al cine en numerosas ocasiones, algunas veces reproducidas de forma fiel, como el clásico Más fuerte que el orgullo de 1940 dirigido por Robert Z. Leonard y protagonizada por Greer Garson y Laurence Olivier y en otras haciendo adaptaciones a la época actual, como es el caso de Clueless, adaptación libre de Emma. Otras versiones son la de Sentido y sensibilidad, de 1995; Mansfield Park, de 2000, y las de Orgullo y prejuicio en 2004 (dirigida por Gurinder Chadha) y en 2005 (dirigida por Joe Wright). Sin embargo, la versión más fiel y perfecta que hasta ahora se ha hecho del libro de Orgullo y prejuicio es la serie que presentó la BBC protagonizada por Colin Firth y Jennifer Ehle. El interés que la obra de Jane Austen sigue despertando hoy en día muestra la vigencia de su pensamiento y la influencia que ha tenido en la literatura posterior. Su vida también ha sido llevada al cine con la película Becoming Jane (2007).

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