This volume was actually given to me by my mother and sister for Christmas several years ago. I'm not positive that it was the Christmas of '05, but I think that's at least close to the right year. Anyway, I love it. It's absolutely beautiful and is one of the best gifts I've ever received. Slowl...
Some years back in one of my APAs, someone castigated Jane Austen's books like this: "All those daft twits rabbiting on about clothes and boyfriends and manners."Since then, I’ve encountered other variations on the theme that a modern woman ought not to be reading such trash because it sets femin...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that any book you truly love is in need of a properly annotated edition. Here is one such. Let me just start quoting:“…A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!”Mrs. Bennet on Mr. Bingley, of course, but ju...
I want to share something with you. It's a long story and while it might initially seem irrelevant to this book, I assure you there is a point to it.Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin.During the summer of 2008 my bestie and I were preparing to go to university. When it was time to mo...
This is a book about math, mirrors and crystal balls, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Village life? Sorta. The lives of the idle rich? I mean, sure, but only partially and incidentally. Romance? Barely. A morality tale of the Education of Young Lady? The young lady stands for and does ma...
( العقل والعاطفة )ل الروائية الرائدة في عالم الأدب الإنجليزي / جين أوستن /هذه الرواية من بواكير الأدب الواقعي في عهد كان يتميز ب " محنة الواقع "، الكثير من القراء سيعجبون لتنظيم هذا الجسد الروائي الذي ابتكرته جين أوستن محاكية منغصات واقعها .. الذي ما عاد له وجود ! و في المقابل سيتعجب آخرون من ال...
Northanger Abbey is the shortest of Jane Austen's six major novels, and has a special place in many readers' hearts. In many ways it is not the tightly constructed witty sort of story we expect from this author, yet its spontaneity and rough edges prove to be part of its charm. Started when she w...
Mansfield Park encompasses not only Jane Austen’s great comedic gifts and her genius as a historian of the human animal, but her personal credo as well—her faith in a social order that combats chaos through civil grace, decency, and wit. At the novel’s center is Fanny Price, the classic “poor co...
Unlike the women featured in Austen's other works, the recently-widowed Lady Susan Vernon is a beautiful and intelligent, but highly manipulative, woman in her upper thirties, who will stop at nothing to attain financially secure relationships for both herself and her wayward but shy teenage daug...
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. ...
This is one of a complete set of Jane Austen's novels collating the editions published during the author's lifetime and previously unpublished manuscripts. The books are illustrated with 19th century-plates and incorporate revisions by experts in the light of subsequent research.
She wanted to hear much more than Mary communicated. It was three weeks since she had heard at all. She only knew that Henrietta was at home again; and that Louisa, though considered to be recovering fast, was still at Lyme; and she was thinking of them all very intently one evening, when a thick...
MRS. VERNON TO LADY DE COURCY Churchhill. My dear Mother, — I am very sorry to tell you that it will not be in our power to keep our promise of spending our Christmas with you; and we are prevented that happiness by a circumstance which is not likely to make us any amends. Lady Susan, in a ...
Sunday only now remains to be described, to close the week. The Clifton scheme had been deferred, not relinquished, and that afternoon, it was brought forward again. Isabella’s iceberg heart was obviously set on going, and James, entirely besotted with the beauteous harpy, was anxious to please h...
When the evening was over, she went to bed full of it, her nerves still agitated by the shock of such an attack from her cousin Tom, so public and so persevered in, and her spirits sinking under her aunt’s unkind reflection and reproach. To be called into notice in such a manner, to hear th...
After honestly telling her what she thought, she thus went on, “You are too sensible a girl, Lizzy, to fall in love merely because you are warned against it, and, therefore, I am not afraid of speaking openly. Seriously, I would have you be on your guard. Do not involve yourself or endeavour to i...
No misfortune occurred, again to prevent the ball. The day approached, the day arrived; and, after a morning of some anxious watching, Frank Churchill, in all the certainty of his own self, reached Randalls before dinner, and every thing was safe. No second meeting had there yet been between him ...