The Complete Novels of Jane Austen - Jane Austen
Sense en sensiblity - Pride en Prejudice - Mansfield park - Emma - Northanger Abbey - Persuasion - Lady Susan
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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 mesmerises 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 of Anne Elliot in Persuasion succeeding in a world designed to subjugate her very existence; and Emma - 'a heroine whom no one but 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 convent...
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2005Uitgever: Wordsworth Editions1431 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1840220554ISBN-13: 9781840220551Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Paperback, creases in spine, traces of use, in good condition.; 2005; reprint; Wordsworth Editions; 1431 pagina's; Titel: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen; Ref: 107548 / U50P133
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