Contains unpublished manuscripts written by Jane Austen, including "Sandition" in which Charlotte Heywood travels to a new seaside resort in England and meets a strange variety of people who seem oblivious to the romances that are occurring around them.

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...

"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...

"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...

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...

A new jacketed edition, illustrated with line drawings, of the works of the ever-popular, critically acclaimed English novelist collects the unabridged texts of all of her completed novels, making it a unique bargain.

An annotated edition of a classic novel provides notes on literary and historical contexts, allusions and language likely to cause difficulty to modern readers and includes 74 color illustrations.

"Emma cuenta la historia de una inteligente y laboriosa joven empeñada en hacer de celestina de todas sus amistades. Cuando su institutriz, amiga y confidente decide contraer matrimonio, Emma Woodhouse se descubrirá sola, frente al vacío de su vida y con la penosa tarea de intentar que los demás lleven una vida tan perfecta como la suya. Pero todos sus esfuerzos de manipulación sentimental tan solo consiguen crear a su alrededor una telaraña...