The Complete Novels of Jane Austen -

Jane Austen

Wordsworth Editions Limited

2007

1434 páginas

1d 23h 48m

ISBN-13: 9781840225563

Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerizes her readers as much today as when her novels were first published.
Whether it is her sharp, ironic gaze at the Gothic genre invoked by the adventures of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey; the diffident and much put-upon Fanny Price struggling to cope with her emotions in Mansfield Park; her delightfully paced comedy of manners and the machinations of the sisters Elinor and Marianne in Sense and Sensibility; the quiet strength os Anne Elliot in Persuasion succeeding in a world designed to subjugate her very existence; and Emma - "a heroine whom no one bur myself will like" teased Austen - yet another irresistible character on fire with imagination and foresight. Indeed not unlike her renowned creator.
Jane Austen is as sure-footed in her steps through society's whirlpools of convention and prosaic mores as she is in her sometimes restrained but ever precise and enduring prose.

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Ah Jane Austen...

Comprei o livro para ler em Inglês, pois já li inúmeras vezes os livros em Português e queria ter o gostinho de ler os livros originalmente em Inglês. Foi uma experiência agradável... Amo os livros da Jane Austen e as sensações que eles trazem, são definitivamente os livros que mais me dão ressaca literária, mesmo os finais sendo bem fechados sempre.