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IL: MG - BL: 10.8 - AR Pts: 16
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1120L
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While enjoying a six weeks' stay in fashionable Bath, the young and callow Catherine Morland is introduced to the delights of high society. Thanks to a new literary diet of the sensational and the macabre, Catherine travels to Northanger Abbey fully expecting to become embroiled in a Gothic adventure of intrigue and suspense - and, once there, soon begins to form the most gruesome and improbable theories about the exploits of its occupants.An early...
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New York Times bestseller
An uproarious tale of romance, heartbreak, and tentacled mayhem inspired by the classic Jane Austen novel—from the publisher of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities....
An uproarious tale of romance, heartbreak, and tentacled mayhem inspired by the classic Jane Austen novel—from the publisher of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities....
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Coleccioun "Libros de bolsillo Z" volume num. 18
Punto de lectura volume 222
Colección Clásicos ilustrados
Punto de lectura volume 222
Colección Clásicos ilustrados
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 27
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Español
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"A lo largo de una trama que discurre con la precisión de un mecanismo de relojería, Jane Austen perfila una galería de personajes que conforman un perfecto y sutil retrato de la época: las peripecias de una dama empeñada en casar a sus hijas con el mejor partido de la región, los vaivenes sentimentales de éstas, el oportunismo de un clérigo adulator...El trazado de los caracteres y el análisis de las relaciones humanas sometidas a un rígido...
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"Alison Larkin's narration will captivate listeners from the first sentence...Austen's nineteenth-century writing style flows off Larkin's tongue, making the dense passages easy to understand"" raves AudioFile Magazine, presenting Larkin with an Earphones award.
Ever since Colin Firth's Mr Darcy emerged from the lake in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, the novels of Jane Austen have become more popular than ever, delighting millions...
Ever since Colin Firth's Mr Darcy emerged from the lake in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, the novels of Jane Austen have become more popular than ever, delighting millions...
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"Alison Larkin herself is a comic writer and performer and she approaches Austen as a satirist. She has genuine theatrical skilll...sustained comic creations. The voice reveals all." — The New Yorker
Ever since Colin Firth's Mr Darcy emerged from the lake in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, the novels of Jane Austen have become more popular than ever, delighting millions of fans all over the world. Now, Alison Larkin's critically...
Ever since Colin Firth's Mr Darcy emerged from the lake in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, the novels of Jane Austen have become more popular than ever, delighting millions of fans all over the world. Now, Alison Larkin's critically...
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A brilliant commentary on societal expectations, this novel about of the fortunes and misfortunes of sisters Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret Dashwood after the death of their beloved father offers a compelling picture of life in the English countryside and of women's role in society at the beginning of the 19th century.
11) Persuasión
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2019.
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Español
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Última novela de la autora, publicada póstumamente en 1818, Persuasión narra la historia de una mujer en su madurez, una mujer sensible, paciente y menospreciada, que, años después de haber rechazado, persuadida por un mal consejo, al hombre que amaba, ve cómo este reaparece en su vida, rico y honorable pero aún despechado. Una mujer, en suma, que quizá por primera vez en la historia de la novela debe luchar para que el amor le conceda una...
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In Northanger Abbey, under the guidance of a sophisticated English couple, a young woman learns to discard her romantic illusions and to appreciate the value of good sense and true affection. In Persuasion, one young woman learns the value of good sense and true affection, while another is persuaded not to marry a man without means, however, eight years later, he is rich and successful
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1949.
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English
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'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!'Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic...
16) Mansfield Park
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English
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Adopted into the household of her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, Fanny Price grows up a meek outsider among her cousins in the unaccustomed elegance of Mansfield Park. Soon after Sir Thomas absents himself on estate business in Antigua (the family's investment in slavery and sugar is considered in the Introduction in a new, post-colonial light), Mary Crawford and her brother Henry arrive at Mansfield, bringing with them London glamour, and the seductive...
19) Minor works
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Novels volume 6
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1969.
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English
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A collection of three volumes of her early writings, a number of impromptu comic verses, and three prayers
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