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Author
Publisher
BBC Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
A collection of BBC radio full-cast dramatisations of Jane Austen's six major novels Jane Austen is one of the finest writers in the English language, and this volume includes all six of her classic novels. Mansfield Park: On a quest to find a position in society, Fanny Price goes to live with her rich aunt and uncle. Northanger Abbey: Young, nav̐e Catherine Morland receives an invitation to stay at the isolated Gothic mansion Northanger Abbey. Sense...
3) Miss Austen
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
1840. 23 years after the death of her famous sister Jane, Cassandra Austen returns to the village of Kintbury, and the home of her family's friends, the Fowles. She knows that, in some dusty corner of the sprawling vicarage, there is a cache of family letters which hold secrets she is desperate should not be revealed. As Cassandra recalls her youth and her relationship with her brilliant yet complex sister, she pieces together buried truths about...
Author
Publisher
David & Charles
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A collection of first-hand accounts of life in the time of Jane Austen, showing how social standing and etiquette were prime considerations of the period, this book reveals the contrast that existed in every aspect of domestic and public life, including the gulfs between rich and poor, and the lives of men and women.
Publisher
Green Umbrella
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Ever since William Caxton set his first printing presses rolling in the 15th Century, the demand for truly great writers has always exceeded supply. Nevertheless there are a select few who live up to this description, although no two people will ever agree on who the accolade should be awarded to because we all have our own particular favourites. But one name that appears with regularity is Jane Austen, the author of such classics as Pride and Prejudice...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Jane Austen is unique among British novelists in maintaining her popular appeal while receiving more scholarly attention now than ever before. This innovative introduction by a leading scholar and editor of her work explains what students need to know about her novels, life, context and reception.
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