In Mansfield Park, first published in 1814, when the author had reached her full maturity as a novelist, Jane Austen paints some of her most witty and perceptive studies of character. Against a genteel country landscape of formal parks...

Im englischen Hertfordshire lebt die Familie Bennet, bestehend aus dem Ehepaar Bennet und dessen fünf Töchtern Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine, die von allen nur Kitty genannt wird, und Lydia. Mrs. Bennets einziges Bestreben ist es,...

Catherine Morland is modest and well mannered, more comfortable reading her novels than socializing with people. When she is unexpectedly invited to the English resort city of Bath for the winter season, where many wealthy families...

Letter-writing was something of an addiction for young women of Jane Austen's time and social position, and Austen's letters have a freedom and familiarity that only intimate writing can convey. Wiser than her critics, who were...

Jane Austen's first published work, meticulously constructed and sparkling with her unique witMarianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her...

Elinor und Marianne sind Schwestern. Jung und unerfahren haben sie noch viel über das Leben und die Liebe zu lernen. Beide lernen den Mann ihrer Träume kennen. Doch wo Elinor vorsichtig ist, ist Marianne unbedacht. Können sie trotzdem...

Oxford Children's Classics: Pride and Prejudice von Austen, Jane

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into...

Austen's last novel is the crowning achievement of her matchless career. Her heroine, Anne Elliot, a woman of integrity, breeding and great depth of emotion, stands in stark contrast to the brutality and hypocrisy of Regency England....

Emma Woodhouse, schön, intelligent und reich hat ein perfektes Leben. Sie hat beschlossen, nie zu heiraten und in Hartfield, dem herrlichen väterlichen Landsitz, zu leben. Doch als sie anfängt Ehen zu vermitteln, muss sie feststellen,...

Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16 December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath, then to Southampton and finally to Chawton in Hampshire. She began writing Pride and Prejudice when she was twenty-two years old. It was...

"Sense and Sensibility" ist ein Roman von Jane Austen, der erstmals 1811 veröffentlicht wurde. Die Geschichte dreht sich um die Schwestern Elinor und Marianne Dashwood, die nach dem Tod ihres Vaters mit ihrer Mutter und jüngeren...