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(0)Jane Austen
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
431 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sense and Sensibility (1811) marked the auspicious debut of a novelist identified only as "A Lady." Jane Austen's name has since become as familiar as Shakespeare's, and her tale of two sisters has lost none of its power to delight. Patricia Meyer Spacks guides readers to a deeper appreciation of the richness of Austen's delineation of her heroines, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, as they experience love, romance, and heartbreak. On display again in...
33) Seven novels
Author
Series
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1,220 pages ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
362 pages : some colored illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
While enjoying a six weeks' stay in fashionable Bath, the young and callow Catherine Morland is introduced to the delights of high society. Thanks to a new literary diet of the sensational and the macabre, Catherine travels to Northanger Abbey fully expecting to become embroiled in a Gothic adventure of intrigue and suspense and, once there, soon begins to form the most gruesome and improbable theories about the exploits of its occupants.
37) Longbourn
Author
Language
English
Description
The servants at Longbourn estate, only glancingly mentioned in Jane Austen's classic, take center stage in Jo Baker's lively, cunning new novel. Here are the Bennets as we have never known them: seen through the eyes of those scrubbing the floors, cooking the meals, emptying the chamber pots. Our heroine is Sarah, an orphaned housemaid beginning to chafe against the boundaries of her class. When the militia marches into town, a new footman arrives...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Alys Binat, second of five daughters, is an independent, forward-thinking English teacher in Pakistan, "home of the marriage-industrial complex." When the rich and handsome Bungles becomes smitten with Alys' older sister, her family eagerly awaits an advantageous proposal. The classic plot unfolds, but with rich descriptions of colorful, chiffon anarkalis instead of empire-waist gowns, chai and samosas instead of tea and scones. Kamal's adaptation...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The summer after university, Emma Woodhouse returns home to the village of Highbury, where she will live with her health-conscious father until she is ready to launch her interior-design business and strike out on her own. In the meantime, she will do what she does best: offer guidance to those less wise in the ways of the world than herself. Happily, this summer brings many new faces to Highbury and into the sphere of Emma's not always perfectly...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A sparkling, witchy reimagining of Pride and Prejudice, told from the perspective of the troublesome and-according to her-much-maligned youngest Bennet sister, Lydia. In this exuberant reimagining of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Lydia Bennet puts pen to paper to relate the real events and aftermath of the classic story from her own perspective. Some facts are well known: Mrs. Bennet suffers from her nerves; Mr. Bennet suffers from Mrs. Bennet,...