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"He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much
attention." Pride and Prejudice , one of the most famous love
stories of all time, has also proven itself as a treasured mainstay
of the English literary canon. With the arrival of eligible young
men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and
their five daughters are turned inside out and upside down. Pride
encounters prejudice, upward-mobility confronts social disdain, and
quick-wittedness challenges sagacity. Misconceptions and hasty
judgements bring heartache and scandal, but eventually lead to true
understanding, self-knowledge, and love. It's almost impossible to
open Pride and Prejudice without feeling the pressure of so many
readers having known and loved this novel already. Will you fail
the test - or will you love it too? As a story that celebrates more
unflinchingly than any of Austen's other novels the happy
meeting-of-true-minds, and one that has attracted the most fans
over the centuries, Pride and Prejudice sets up an echo chamber of
good feelings in which romantic love and the love of reading
amplify each other.
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Persuasion (Paperback)
Jane Austen; Introduction by Deidre Shauna Lynch; Notes by Deidre Shauna Lynch; Edited by James Kinsley
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R193
R159
Discovery Miles 1 590
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'She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned
romance as she grew older - the natural sequel of an unnatural
beginning.' Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present happiness
and has resigned herself to living off her memories. More than
seven years earlier she complied with duty: persuaded to view the
match as imprudent and improper, she broke off her engagement to a
naval captain with neither fortune, ancestry, nor prospects.
However, when peacetime arrives and brings the Navy home, and Anne
encounters Captain Wentworth once more, she starts to believe in
second chances. Persuasion celebrates romantic constancy in an era
of turbulent change. Written as the Napoleonic Wars were ending,
the novel examines how a woman can at once remain faithful to her
past and still move forward into the future. ABOUT THE SERIES: For
over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the
widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable
volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the
most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features,
including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful
notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further
study, and much more. .
In 1836 the 23-year-old Dickens was invited by his publishers to
write `a monthly something' illustrated by sporting plates. Thus
the Pickwick Club was born: its supposed `papers' soom outgrew
their origins and became a brilliantly comic novel, still among
Dicken's most popular works. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years
Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of
literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects
Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate
text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert
introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the
text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Mansfield Park (Paperback)
Jane Austen; Introduction by Jane Stabler; Notes by Jane Stabler; Edited by James Kinsley
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R202
R169
Discovery Miles 1 690
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"Me!" cried Fanny..."Indeed you must excuse me. I could not act any
thing if you were to give me the world. No, indeed, I cannot act."
At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth
home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir
Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park. There she
accepts her lowly status, and gradually falls in love with her
cousin Edmund. When the dazzling and sophisticated Henry and Mary
Crawford arrive, Fanny watches as her cousins become embroiled in
rivalry and sexual jealousy. As the company starts to rehearse a
play by way of entertainment, Fanny struggles to retain her
independence in the face of the Crawfords' dangerous attractions;
and when Henry turns his attentions to her, the drama really
begins... This new edition does full justice to Austen's complex
and subtle story, placing it in its Regency context and elucidating
the theatrical background that pervades the novel. ABOUT THE
SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made
available the widest range of literature from around the globe.
Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship,
providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable
features, including expert introductions by leading authorities,
helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for
further study, and much more.
'...in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up
his wife, she had scarcely sinned against his character, or
magnified his cruelty.' Northanger Abbey is about the misadventures
of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an
indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and
dark overstatement feed her imagination, as tyrannical fathers and
diabolical villains work their evil on forlorn heroines in isolated
settings. What could be more remote from the uneventful securities
of life in the midland counties of England? Yet as Austen
brilliantly contrasts fiction with reality, ordinary life takes a
more sinister turn, and edginess and circumspection are reaffirmed
alongside comedy and literary burlesque. Also including Austen's
other short fictions, Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon, this
valuable new edition examines the ambitious and innovative works
with which she inaugurated as well as closed her career. ABOUT THE
SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made
available the widest range of literature from around the globe.
Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship,
providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable
features, including expert introductions by leading authorities,
helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for
further study, and much more.
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Squyer Meldrum (Paperback)
David Lindsay; Edited by James Kinsley, C. S. Lewis
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R685
Discovery Miles 6 850
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Nelson's Medieval And Renaissance Library.
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