This volume contains six major novels by Jane Austen - "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield Park", "Emma", "Northanger Abbey", "Persuasion" and "Lady Susan".
¨ Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight [...]
'A reference bible...inspirational in the way that it opens up new possibilities for vegetables' - "Daily Mail". This is Jane Grigson's definitive guide to the selection, preparation and cooking of vegetables - from the common potato to the exotic Chinese artichoke. She gives tempting, stimulating i[...]
Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. Here in one volume are her seven great novels: "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield Park", "Emma", "Northanger Abbey", "Persuasion", and "Lady Susan". Thro[...]
The fourth edition of Jane Austen's Letters incorporates the findings of new scholarship to enrich our understanding of Austen and give us the fullest view yet of her life and family. The biographical and topographical indexes have been updated, a new subject index has been created, and the contents[...]
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 guide takes the form of a sourcebook, combining reprinted contextual and critical documents with extensive introductory comment and annotation by the volume editor.[...]
Jane Addams was a prolific and elegant writer. Her twelve books consist largely of published essays, but to appreciate her life work one must also read her previously uncollected speeches and editorials. This artfully compiled collection begins with Addams's youthful Junior Class Oration on women as[...]
The British Library Jane Austen Journal is a classic lined journal with quotes by Jane Austen and illustrated with silhouettes by Jane's nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh. The journal has an elastic closer and a storage pocket is included for keeping your notes and letters safe.[...]
The broader Regency period 1795 to 1820, stands alone as an incredible moment in fashion history, unlike anything that went before it. For the first time, England became a fashion influence, especially for menswear, and became the toast of Paris, as court dress became secondary to the season-by-seas[...]
One choice. One chance to make a difference.
Women are dying in their millions. Some blame scientists, some see the hand of God. As she watches her world collapsing, Jessie Lamb decides she wants to make her life count. Would you let your daughter die if it would save the human race? The [...]
The authoritative edition for the twenty-first century, comprising Jane Austen's complete works.
In a novel that is based on The Watsons, an unfinished Jane Austen novel, Emma Watson returns from years spent with a much-loved aunt to tend her father's household and to deal with her petty and jealous sisters, ailing father, and vulgar brothers, only to find herself caught up in an adventure as t[...]
In a publishing career that spanned less than a decade, Jane Austen used the romantic endeavours of her well-plotted characters as a stage from which to address issues of gender politics and class-consciousness rarely expressed in her day. The novels included in this beautiful leatherbound collectio[...]
Elegant, sophisticated and full of humour and romance, the novels of Jane Austen have been favourites of readers around the world for more than two centuries. Although set at the turn of the nineteenth century, in the England that she herself knew, Austen's characters espouse values and sentiments t[...]
With illustrated quotations from Jane Austen's beloved classics and lined journaling pages that evoke Austen's common cross-writing style, this hardcover journal is a place for literature lovers to muse about matters of the heart in longhand.[...]
Jane Austen fans and nostalgic readers will find choice words for every occasion in this boxed set of cards featuring noteworthy quotations from Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, and Emma.[...]
From irreverent advice and hilarious family anecdotes to moments of great poignancy, the author's missives are a touching and witty portrait of his life and relationships over the years. This book begins with his time as a young army officer in Egypt, and then as a POW in the Second World War.[...]