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Clever, rich, and single, the beautiful Ān Mò (Emma Woodhouse) is focused on her career as fashion designer in the glamour of 21st-century Shanghai. She sees no need for romance in her life, but when she tries to find a boyfriend for her new friend Fangfang (Harriet), her carefully laid plans being to unravel. As she ignores the warnings of her good friend Shi Wenzheng (Mr. Knightley), her decisions bring consequences that she never expected.

Uno dei romanzi più famosi della Austen, da lei scritto a vent’anni, manifesta una maturità insolita per l’età, ed è stato utilizzato per numerosi film. L’ironia e l’intelligenza della scrittrice descrivono la vita della società inglese nel settecento, e come questa poteva essere, per le donne, un impedimento ad essere considerate semplicemente esseri umani.

Persuasión por Jane Austen enfoca en la historia de dos amantes del pasado que quieren reavivar la pasión del pasado.

Esta novela epistolar, escrita probablemente en 1794, narra los planes de la protagonista, la recientemente viuda lady Susan, para encontrar un nuevo marido, a la vez que intenta casar a su hija de dieciséis años. Austen se sirve de este género para construir una obra en donde las distintas cartas se engarzan como piezas de un rompecabezas hasta completar ante los ojos del lector una historia de pequeñas intrigas.

Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen's first published book. This comedy of manners is set in England, London, and Kent during the 1790s. Tackling love and heartbreak, the story follows the lives of the Dashwood sisters as they settle in their new home.

Step into the charming and socially intricate world of Regency England with Emma, Jane Austen’s timeless tale of love, ambition, and self-discovery. Meet Emma Woodhouse, a spirited, witty, and often misguided young woman who delights in matchmaking for her friends while remaining oblivious to her own heart's desires.

The Foundry's Hindi translation of Jane Austen’s distinctive novel navigates a society remarkably obsessed with manners, marriage and status just as the arrival of eligible wealthy bachelors in the countryside causes a stir in the Bennet family of five daughters. Willful Elizabeth Bennet is quick to adopt a prejudice against the prideful Mr. Darcy tossing them and other couples into a tumultuous journey for happiness in requited love.

제인 오스틴이 선사하는 해학과 유머 가득한 자기 성찰의 드라마 호기심과 오해가 빚어낸 사건들 속에서 완성되는 엠마의 좌충우돌 성장기 철없는 독신주의자 엠마 우드하우스. 무료하고 권태로운 시간을 어떻게 보낼지...

Austen’s genius lies in her ability to expose hypocrisy while championing sincerity, independence, and emotional honesty. Pride and Prejudice endures not only because it is a romance, but because it is a vibrant portrait of flawed, vivid people learning to see one another clearly.

Published posthumously in December 1817, Persuasion was Jane Austen's final completed work before her death in July 1817. It has delighted listeners ever since. It is a historical romance which delves into themes of love, social class, and individual agency. It revolves around the life of Anne Elliot, who was persuaded when she was 19 years old to break off her engagement with Frederick Wentworth, a promising, though relatively poor young lieutenant in the Royal Navy.

Jane Austen's classic tale of love overcoming preconceptions centers on the two eldest daughters of the Bennet family: Jane and Elizabeth. Elizabeth has to fend off an unwelcome offer of marriage from the Rev. Collins, while mistakenly falling for the charms of the dashing Mr Wickham, before realizing that appearances are deceptive and that her prejudice against Mr Darcy has blinded her to his real character.

Northanger Abbey is the coming-of-age story of Catherine Morland, who is taken to the fashionable resort of Bath with her friends, the Allens. While in Bath, she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor. The Tilneys invite Catherine to Northanger Abbey, their family estate. Catherine, an avid reader of Gothic novels, soon becomes obsessed with the thought that possible atrocities are going on at the abbey.

Emma is a vivacious twenty-year-old, who has spent her life in the pleasant seclusion of a village community and who lives with her widowed valetudinarian father. Most of the neighbors admire and approve of her, except for George Knightley, a local landowner, who often expresses his disapproval of Emma’s highhanded and controlling tendencies, in particular her assumption of the unofficial role of matchmaker.

The plot follows the usual trajectory of a young girl falling in love and the relationship becoming compromised by unforeseen circumstances. In this case, Austen’s heroine is a naïve country girl, Catherine Morland, who has an addiction to reading the Gothic horror novels which were so popular in the Regency period. When she is invited to stay at the family seat of her love interest and discovers it to be a vast and ancient castle, her romantic imagination runs riot. What secrets lie hidden in this vast pile over which the widowed head of the house exercises an iron control?

First published in 1813, Pride and Prejudice is the most polished of Jane Austen’s novels, with a humorous and upbeat mood. It was written at a time when the author’s narrative powers were fully developed and the story flows with an ease that conceals the skill of its construction. The plot line follows the sequence of a love relationship apprehended, misunderstood, and finally realized, which has since become a standard format of the romcom genre. However, Austen complicates the action by involving not one but four romantic relationships in the plot.

Emma is a novel about youthful hubris and romantic misunderstandings, written by Jane Austen. It is set in the fictional country village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls and Donwell Abbey, and involves the relationships among people from a small number of families. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England. Emma is a comedy of manners.

Un grande classico ottocentesco della letteratura inglese, considerato dalla critica il capolavoro di Jane Austen e pubblicato per la prima volta anonimo nel 1815, "Emma" è l'ultimo romanzo che l'autrice diede alle stampe. La protagonista, da cui prende nome il romanzo, ha tutte le caratteristiche per sollevare antipatia, come dichiara l'autrice stessa, ma "Emma" è anche il frutto della scrittura accattivante e ironica di Jane Austen.

Alla sua pubblicazione nel 1814, Mansfield Park riscosse un immediato successo, tanto che nel 1816 fu tradotto in francese. Il romanzo è un delizioso affresco corale imbastito intorno alla protagonista, Fanny Price, che, partendo dalla sua umile casa piena di fratelli, si ritrova catapultata a soli nove anni nella ricca tenuta dei parenti nobili, i Bertram, a Mansfield Park. Fanciulla di sani principi e grande timidezza, Fanny trova nel cugino Edmund l’unica guida e sostegno alla sua crescita.

Denise Tantucci legge "L'abbazia di Northanger" di Jane Austen, un audiolibro della collana "Anche i giovani leggono i classici", con cui Audiolibri Salani propone grandi classici della letteratura internazionale interpretati da celebri volti giovani in una chiave moderna e coinvolgente. Romanzo giovanile di Jane Austen ma con tutti gli elementi caratteristici della produzione matura dell'autrice.

"Una satira brillante delle vanità ma anche una delle più romantiche storie d'amore di tutta la letteratura, scritta tra 1816 e 1817 e pubblicata postuma. “Ci sono una bellezza e un'ombra particolari in Persuasione. La scrittrice sta cominciando a scoprire che il mondo è più grande, più misterioso, più romantico di quanto aveva creduto” - Virginia Woolf."