The most perfect of Jane Austen's perfect novels begins with twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse comfortably dominating the social order in the village of Highbury, convinced that she has both the understanding and the right to manage other people's lives--for their own good, of course. Her well-mean[...]

No novel in English has given more pleasure than "Pride and Prejudice. "Because it is one of the great works in our literature, critics in every generation reexamine and reinterpret it. But the rest of us simply fall in love with it--and with its wonderfully charming and intelligent heroine, Elizabe[...]

This collection from Everyman s Library provides the complete works of one of the most popular authors in English literature. Each of Jane Austen s masterpieces is enchantingly funny, touchingly and wittily told, and filled with a dazzling gallery of characters. These beautiful, clothbound classics [...]

This first-ever fully annotated edition of one of the most beloved novels in the world is a sheer delight for Jane Austen fans. Here is the complete text of "Pride and Prejudice "with more than 2,300 annotations on facing pages, including: - Explanations of historical contextRules of etiquette, cla[...]

Explores cooking in Jane Austen's England and provides more than 200 recipes One of the greatest writers of all time, Jane Austen drew upon her domestic culture to colour her works. Food is central to her novels, just as it was to everyday life in Austen's England. And just as her fiction continues [...]

*NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING KATE BECKINSALE, CHLOE SEVIGNY & STEPHEN FRY* ACCLAIM FOR THE BOOK: "Lady Susan remains deliciously wicked" (Vogue); "Very, very funny" (New York Times), " A] delicately sincere inversion of Austen's amused irony" (New York Review of Books); "Quirky and hilarious" (Publis[...]

"I Was Jane Austen's Best Friend" is the secret diary of Jenny Cooper, Jane Austen's teenage friend and confidante. Their evenings are a blur of beautiful dresses, balls, gossip and romance; their days are spent writing about them - Jenny in her diary, Jane in her first attempts at fiction. When Jen[...]

Part of a series of literature guides designed for GCSE coursework requirements, this book contains - author details, background to the work, summaries of the text, critical commentaries, analysis of characterization, and sample questions with guideline answers.[...]

This title provides a critique of "Northanger Abbey", "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield Park", "Emma" and "Persuasion", linking the significance of the works from the past to the present day in the light of contemporary attitudes to women, tradition and innovation[...]