Austen tells the story of Catherine Morland and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austen's fallible heroine is repeatedly drawn into scrapes while...
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Author: Austen, JaneSummary:
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Author: Austen, JaneSummary:
A selection of short fiction written by Austen when she was a teenager.
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Jane Austen's remarkable juvenilia date from 1787, when she was eleven, to 1793, when she was seventeen. She preserved these early writings in three manuscript notebooks, entitled 'Volume the...
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Author: Austen, JaneSummary:
This epistolary novel, an early complete work that the author never submitted for publication, describes the schemes of the main character—the widowed Lady Susan—as she seeks a new husband for...
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Author: Austen, JaneSummary:
The romantic fortunes of the Dashwood sisters, set in 18th century England.
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Author: Austen, JaneSummary:
Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature - "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man...
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Author: Austen, JaneSummary:
The Complete Works of Jane Austen includes all six novels, and Austen’s shorter works; Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sandition, and her complete Juvenilia. Jane Austen is famous for her six novels,...
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Author: Austen, JaneSummary:
Emma is a literary classic by Jane Austen following the genteel women of Georgian-Regency England in their most cherished sport: matchmaking. Emma is spoiled, headstrong, and self-satisfied. After...
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Author: Austen, JaneSummary:
The carefully controlled and chess-like movements of polite society conceal passionate hearts, keen minds and rebellious wills in Jane Austen’s most famous novel. Yes, it’s all about courtship,...
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Author: Austen, JaneSummary:
Lonely Anne Elliot lives a life of resignation and regret, a cruel consequence of long ago honoring her snobbish family's wishes above her own. But when her old flame Frederick Wentworth suddenly...
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Author: Austen, JaneSummary:
Fanny Price, is a young girl from a large and relatively poor family, who is taken from them at age 10 to be raised by her rich uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas, a baronet, and Lady Bertram, of...
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Author: Austen, JaneSummary:
Relegated to a small cottage by the death of their aristocratic father, passionate Marianne (sensibility) and practical Elinor (sense) are as vulnerable in love as they are in fortune. Toyed with...