Love and Friendship: And Other Youthful Writings (Austen Jane)(Paperback)

Love and Friendship: And Other Youthful Writings (Austen Jane)(Pevná vazba)

Jane Austen's brilliant, hilarious - and often outrageous - early stories, sketches and pieces of nonsense, in a beautiful Penguin Classics clothbound edition.Jane Austen's earliest writing dates from when she was just eleven years, and already shows the hallmarks of her mature work: wit, acute

Love and Friendship: And Other Youthful Writings (Austen Jane)(Paperback)

Austen's hilarious early stories and sketches--complete with her delightfully quirky spelling habits--now collected in one volume, including Lady Susan, the basis for Whit Stillman's feature film Love and Friendship starring Kate Beckinsale and Chlo Sevigny Jane Austen's earliest writing dates

Love and Friendship (Austen Jane)(Paperback)

These inventive and entertaining pieces display the early sparkles of wit and imagination of Jane Austen's mature fiction. Written when she was only in her teens, they are by turns amusing, acerbic and occasionally downright silly.'Love and Friendship' and 'Lesley Castle' provide parodies of the

The Prayers of Jane Austen (Austen Jane)(Pevná vazba)

You know Jane Austen as the beloved author of Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and other witty, insightful novels of the early nineteenth century. Now come to know her as a woman of unexpected spiritual depth. Jane Austen wrote beautiful, heartfelt prayers for use during her family's evening devotions

Sense And Sensibility (Austen Jane)(Pevná vazba)

Jane Austen seems to have been born with the comic precision and other-worldly insight she everywhere displays in Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel (1811), which, though revised later, was completed in 1797 at the age of

Emma (Austen Jane)(Paperback)

The culmination of Jane Austen's genius, a sparkling comedy of love and marriage Soon to be a major motion picture starring Anya Taylor-Joy Beautiful, clever, rich--and single--Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however,

Mansfield Park (Austen Jane)(Paperback)

Social class, friendship, and morality meet in a tangled web that only love can unweave. Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park, first published in 1814, tells the story of young Fanny Price, who is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, at the age of ten. As she grows up, she develops

A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings (Sterne Laurence)(Paperback)

'Love is nothing without feeling. And feeling is still less without love.' Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of sentimental writers', A Sentimental Journey (1768) has outlasted its many imitators because of the humour and mischievous eroticism that inform Mr Yorick's travels

Pride and Prejudice (Austen Jane)(Paperback / softback)

Autobiography and Other Writings (Franklin Benjamin)(Paperback)

Franklin's writings span a long and distinguished career of literary, scientific, and political inquiry--the work of a man whose life lasted for nearly all of the 18th century, and whose achievements ranged from inventing the lightning rod to publishing Poor Richard's Almanac to signing the

Abelard and Heloise: The Letters and Other Writings (Abelard)(Paperback / softback)

The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes (Austen Jane)(Paperback)

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is eminently, delightfully, and delectably quotable. This truth goes far beyond the first line of Pride and Prejudice, which has muscled out many other excellent sentences. So many gems of wit and wisdom from her novels deserve to be better

A Confession and Other Religious Writings (Tolstoy Leo)(Paperback)

Tolstoy's passionate and iconoclastic writings--on issues of faith, immortality, freedom, violence, and morality--reflect his intellectual search for truth and a religion firmly grounded in reality. The selection includes 'A Confession, ' 'Religion and Morality, ' 'What Is Religion, and of What

Teenage Writings (Austen Jane)(Paperback)

Three notebooks of Jane Austen's early writings survive. The pieces probably date from 1786 or 1787, around the time that Jane, aged 11 or 12, and her older sister and collaborator Cassandra left school. By this point Austen was already an indiscriminate and precocious reader, devouring pulp

Breathing Lessons (Tyler Anne)(Paperback)

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Evoking Jane Austen, Emma Straub, and other masters of the literary marriage, Breathing Lessons celebrates the small miracles and magic of truly knowing someone.Unfolding over the course of a single emotionally fraught day, this stunning novel

Emma - anglicky (Barnes & Noble Flexibound Editions) - Jane Austenová

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and a happy disposition...and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.Set in the fictional country village of Highbury and its surrounding estates, Emma involves the relationships

Sense and Sensibility (Austen Jane)(Paperback / softback)

This is the 'Penguin English Library Edition' of 'Sense and Sensibility' by Jane Austen. 'The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!' Jane Austen's novel tells the story of Marianne Dashwood, who wears her heart on

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - The Graphic Novel (Austen Jane)(Paperback / softback)

Sense and Sensibility (Austen Jane)(Paperback)

'Beautifully designed... Perfect collectable gift for Austen fans and design devotees' So Darling Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from the other after they are they are forced by their father's death to leave their home and enter into the contests of polite

Pride and Prejudice - The Sisterhood (Austen Jane)(Paperback / softback)

Sense and Sensibility (Austen Jane)(Paperback)

Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Both sisters must learn from the other after they are forced to leave their home and enter into the contests of polite society after the untimely death of their father. The charms of unsuitable men and the schemes of rival ladies mean that

The Autobiography and Other Writings (Franklin Benjamin)(Paperback)

Benjamin Franklin's writings represent a long career of literary, scientific and political efforts over a lifetime which extended nearly the entire eighteenth century. This volume includes Franklin's reflections on such diverse questions as philosophy and religion, social status, electricity,

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austenová

A special edition featuring beautiful heritage wallpaper patterns from her own home in Hampshire, these collectable paperbacks are a must for all Jane Austen fans. From Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning classics that make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.Two sisters

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austenová

A special edition featuring beautiful heritage wallpaper patterns from her own home in Hampshire, these collectable paperbacks are a must for all Jane Austen fans. From Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning classics that make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.Jane