This collection from Everyman’s Library provides the complete works of one of the most popular authors in English literature, including Emma,Mansfield Park,Northanger Abby,Persuasion,Pride and Prejudice,Sandition and Other Stories, and Sense and Sensibility. Sometimes it is the heart of such a gossiper and mud thrower that is at fault seriously in that destroying another person is the pleasure, and use of mind and other facilities is merely a means. It reminds me of reading early Shakespeare; it shows promise of what is to come later but on its own it doesn't justify the author's reputation. Austen is clear about her contempt for a modicum of behaviour slightly reminiscent of Mary Bennett from her most famous work, Pride And Prejudice.

Eventually I found myself intrigued as to how it was all going to resolve, making the final (sensational) fifth much more interesting. All in all I really enjoyed my read/reareads of all of these and if you haven't picked up any Jane Austen before, I strongly urge you to as her works are timeless and still relevant to today in all kinds of ways.Die Ober- und Unterseite ist aus schönem roten Stoff (wahrscheinlich Leinen), der Schuber insgesamt wirkt stabil und hochwertig.

It was saved in my estimation by a very compelling heroine who knew exactly what she wanted from life and sought after it. There are so many Mrs Norrises in the world, and yet Lizzies and Darcys and Elinors seem to be in short supply.The book is beautiful, enhanced by the beautiful illustrations, with an old-fashioned ribbon bookmark bound into it. Mansfield Park’ is equally rich, though it troubles some readers for its tacit admission that the wealth of the family is derived from the slave trade. Austen lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family located on the lower fringes of the English landed gentry. Fanny is treated as a second class member of the household due to her charity status, but she valiantly suffers through the continual belittlement she suffers. Each of the novels is a love story and a story about marriage—marriage for love, for financial security, for social status.

That is because while this is assumed to be a romance it is really a very astute picture of society that transcends time and geography and social boundaries and cultures, and applies universally to any place where there are young women at an age ripe to marry without dowries to bring out grooms out of the woods swarming. This yielded a fresh and increased appreciation for Austen as one of the rightful heirs to Shakespeare for her rich characterization and penetrating insight. That's not to say they didn't get grating at times, they absolutely did, but I just loved everything about it. For though I am only the dowager, my dear, and he is the heir, things do not stand between us in the way they commonly do between those two parties.Unter dem Schutzumschlag, sind die Romane aus dem gleichen roten Leinen wie der Schuber und der Buchrücken ist mit goldenen Lettern beschriftet, wirklich sehr schick. She said this with a look at her companion which implied its right to produce a great impression; and seeing no rapturous astonishment in Charlotte’s countenance, added quickly, “He did not bequeath it to his nephew, my dear. But she behaved normally, and refused him with a growing wrath when he proposed - it was not his money, but to begin with the truth of his letter, and then the regard his household had for him, the people who knew him the most, and subsequently his more than civil behaviour towards her relatives who were only middle class, and his obvious attempts to have his sister know her and have her for a friend - these wer the successive steps that changed her more and more. At the time of her death, she was working on a new novel, Sanditon, a fragmentary draft of which survives.

My own personal ranking did not change, although as someone else remarked, my favorite Jane Austen is always the one I'm currently reading. Notably the superb liar Isabella Thorpe, who gets engaged to Catherine's brother, dumps him, and then tries to patch things up when her other thing doesn't work out. He only told me, and that but once, that he should wish his nephew to have his watch; but it need not have been binding if l had not chose it.Lady Susan” and the depraved depths that vixen will go to deceive all around her for her own ends was a fascinating character study, so was “Emma” with her playful scheming to arrange the love lives of those closest to her, a capricious innocent tale in comparison with “Lady Susan”! Admittedly, once you've read Pride and Prejudice you've pretty much read them all, except Mansfield Park which is just godawful and ought have been expurgated.