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The Reading Room
Jane Austen
Read reviews and buy books written by Victorian authors or about the Victorian era and more... Click a book cover or title for more information. Links are in purple. If you cannot find what you are looking for here, try the Amazon links at the bottom of the page.
A lot of Jane Austen's work has been adapted for the screen. Visit the DVD and Video page to see what I have featured or type your favourite into the search boxes and see what's available.
| Emma Price: £1.00 "Emma Wodehouse has led a simple life, but during the course of this she at last reaps her share of the world's vexations. In this comedy of manners, the heroine learns to come to terms with the reality of other people, and with her own erring nature." |
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| Pride and Prejudice Price: £2.99 "Isobel Armstrong's introduction offers fresh insight into the classic and much-loved romance between proud Mr Darcy and prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet." This is my favourite Jane Austen book, visit the DVD and Video page for the great BBC adaptation starring Colin Firth as Mr Darcy. |
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| Mansfield Park Price: £1.00 "First published in 1814, this is a study of three families - the Bertrams, the Crawfords and the Prices - in which Jane Austen uses the unlikely heroine, Fanny Price, to explore the social and moral values by which these families' lives are ordered." |
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| Northanger Abbey Price: £1.00 "Portraying social life in fashionable Bath and centred around Catherine Morland, this novel ridicules the popular tales of romance and terror and contrasts with these the normal realities of life." |
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| Sense and Sensibility
Price: £1.00 "The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic - a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion." |
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| Persuasion Price: £1.00 "Differing from Austen's other novels in adopting a more sober tone, this one describes the ordeals of Anne Elliot, who has been persuaded by her family to reject Captain Wentworth. The novel opens several years later, when she is 27 and still unattached." |
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| The Penguin Complete Novels of Jane Austen Price: £8.79 "This volume contains six major novels by Jane Austen - "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield Park", "Emma", "Northanger Abbey", "Persuasion" and "Lady Susan"." |
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| Jane Austen's Letters
Price: £11.99 "Jane Austen's letters afford a unique insight into the daily life of the novelist: intimate and gossipy, observant and informative, they bring alive her family and friends, her surroundings and contemporary events with a freshness unparalleled in modern biographies. Above all we recognize the unmistakable voice of the author of "Pride and Prejudice", witty and amusing as she describes the social life of town and country, thoughtful and constructive when writing about the business of literary composition. " |
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