In Mansfield Park, first published in 1814, when the author had reached her full maturity as a novelist, Jane Austen paints some of most witty and perceptive studies of character. Against a genteel country landscape of formal parks and stately homes, the gossipy Mrs Norris becomes a masterful comic creation; the fickle young suitor Henry Crawford provides an unequaled portrait of an unscruplous young man; and the complexy drawn Fanny Price emerges as one of Jane Austen's finest achievements--the poor cousin who comes to stay with her wealthy relatives at Mansfield Park and learns how the game of love can too easily turn to folly. More intricately plotted and wider in scope than Austen's earlier works, Mansfield Park continues to enchant and delight us as a superb example of a great author's craft.

Begun in 1811 at the height of Jane Austen's writing powers and published in 1814, "Mansfield Park" marks a conscious break from the tone of her first three novels, "Northanger Abbey", "Sense and Sensibility", and "Pride and Prejudice", the last of which Austen came to see as 'rather too light.' Fanny Price is unlike any of Austen's previous heroines, a girl from a poor family brought up in a splendid country house and possessed of a vast reserve of moral fortitude and imperturbability. She is very different from Elizabeth Bennet, but is the product of the same inspired imagination.

Emma Wodehouse has led a simple life, but during the course of this she at last reaps her share of the world's vexations. In this comedy of manners, the heroine learns to come to terms with the reality of other people, and with her own erring nature. Jane Austen was born in Steventon, Hampshire, on December 16, 1775. Her father, the Reverend George Austen, was rector of Steventon, where she spent her first twenty-five years, along with her six brothers (two of them later naval officers in the Napoleonic wars) and her adored sister, Cassandra. She read voraciously from an early age, counting among her favorites the novels of Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Fanny Burney, and the poetry of William Cowper and George Crabbe. Her family was lively and affectionate and they encouraged her precocious literary efforts, the earliest dating from age twelve, which already displayed the beginnings of her comic style. Her first novels, Elinor and Marianne (1796) and First Impressions (1797), were not published. The gothic parody Northanger Abbey was accepted for publication in 1803 but was ultimately withheld by the publisher.

Persuation is the last work of one of the greatest of novelists, the end of a quiet career pursued in anonymity in rural England that produced novels which continue to give pleasure to millions of readers throughout the world.

Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willougby, she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love - and its threatened loss - the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.

Jane Austen’s last completed novel, Persuasion is a delightful social satire of England’s landed gentry and a moving tale of lovers separated by class distinctions. After years apart, unmarried Anne Elliot, the heroine Jane Austen called “almost too good for me,” encounters the dashing naval officer others persuaded her to reject, as he now courts the rash and younger Louisa Musgrove. Superbly drawn, these characters and those of Anne’s prideful father, Sir Walter, the scheming Mrs. Clay, and the duplicitous William Elliot, heir to Kellynch Hall, become luminously alive—so much so that the poet Tennyson, visiting historic Lyme Regis, where a pivotal scene occurs, exclaimed: “Don’t talk to me of the Duke of Monmouth. Show me the exact spot where Louisa Musgrove fell!” Tender, almost grave, Persuasion offers a glimpse into Jane Austen’s own heart while it magnificently displays the full maturity of her literary power.

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With a wealth of fascinating details about Jane Austen's life and times, this book brings to life the world of her novels. Austen scholar Deirdre Le Faye first gives a meticulously researched overview of the period, from foreign affairs to social ranks, from fashion to sanitation. She goes on to consider each novel individually, explaining in detail its action, its setting, the reaction of public and critics and Jane's own feeling about it. The lavish illustrations, many never seen before, allow the reader to visualize the places and people of the novels. This book is essential reading for students of literature and of social history, and for all Jane Austen enthusiasts who want to gain a new insight into her work.

The novels of Jane Austen depict a world of civility, reassuring stability and continuity, which generations of readers have supposed was the world she herself inhabited. Claire Tomalin's biography paints a surprisingly different picture of the Austen family and their Hampshire neighbours, and of Jane's progress through a difficult childhood, an unhappy love affair, her experiences as a poor relation and her decision to reject a marriage that would solve all her problems - except that of continuing as a writer. Both the woman and the novels are radically reassessed in this biography.

What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances. A woman of no importance, she manoeuvres in her restricted circumstances as her long-time love Captain Wentworth did in the wars. Even though she is nearly thirty, well past the sell-by bloom of youth, Austen makes her win out for herself and for others like herself, in a regenerated society.

《理智与情感》：奥斯丁处女作，《傲慢与偏见》姐妹篇。埃莉诺和玛丽安两姐妹生在一个体面的英国乡绅家庭，姐姐善于用理智来控制情感，妹妹却往往在情感上毫无节制，因此在恋爱中碰到挫折时，她们作出了不同的反应：姐姐忍辱负重，始终与人为善；妹妹心高气傲，几近崩溃……与主人公命运情牵相关的闲得发慌的乡绅太太，势利无情的兄嫂一家，市侩虚伪的远房姐妹，以及少女心中那三位或道德败坏或正直优柔的恋人悉数登场，以喜剧开头，悲剧发展，终以喜剧收场，一则以细腻笔触和生动对白见长、讲述没有富裕嫁妆的少女婚恋的经典故事。 《傲慢与偏见》：奥斯丁代表作，也是最受欢迎的一部作品。班纳特太太的毕生大志就是把五个闺女体面地嫁掉，故而总是把近旁有财产的单身汉看成某个女儿应得的一笔财产。于是有了几对青年男女跌宕起伏的分分合合：豪门子弟达西与聪慧机敏的二女伊丽莎白之间的谗言误会，富家公子彬格莱与贤淑善良的长女吉英之间的欲说还休，浪荡公子韦翰与轻佻无理的小女丽迪雅的私奔秽闻……最终男女主人公放下了各自的傲慢与偏见，做出合乎自己道德的选择。作品充分表达了作者本人的婚姻观，强调经济利益和门第观念对婚恋的影响。 《曼斯菲尔德庄园》：善良懂事的芬妮由于家境穷困，从小被寄养在富裕的姨妈家。姨妈家的两个表姐虽然聪敏美丽，但都高傲任性，幸亏表兄埃德蒙的亲切关怀，才使她在寄人篱下的生活中得到安慰和快乐。成年后的芬妮也常随表姐表兄参加社交聚会，他们在牧师家里结识了风流倜傥的青年克劳福德和他的妹妹玛丽。埃德蒙对美丽机智的玛丽一见倾心，芬妮的两个表姐则拼命追求克劳福德，未料克劳福德在逢场作戏后发现自己真心喜欢的是芬妮，而芬妮深爱的却始终是温和真诚的埃德蒙……陷入感情纠葛的这几对青年男女最后的结局出人意料，却也在情理之中。 《爱玛》：被认为是奥斯丁最成熟的作品。热心的爱玛关心哈丽埃特的婚姻，她认为这姑娘是大户人家出身，因此要她拒绝农夫马丁的求婚，并一味鼓励她去爱牧师埃尔顿。爱玛姐夫的哥哥奈特利比爱玛大十六岁，他始终爱着爱玛，可是又经常批评她的缺点，包括她如此主观地干预别人的恋爱和婚姻。在埃尔顿同霍金斯小姐结婚后，爱玛又要哈丽埃特去爱弗兰克·邱吉尔，但哈丽埃特却爱上了奈特利，这时候爱玛才大吃一惊，发觉自己心里一直爱着奈特利。最后，他们两人、弗兰克·邱吉尔和简·菲尔费克斯，以及马丁和哈丽埃特三对有情人终成眷属。 《劝导》：奥斯丁最后一部小说，塑造了一位其笔下最为高尚的人物。韶光正从安妮的身上消逝，风华正茂的时候，因为接受了他人的“劝导”，她终与意中人温特沃斯上校分道扬镳。虽青春不在，又备受虚荣的父亲和姐姐的冷漠，但她的高贵仁慈却使她成为亲朋中最受欢迎的人。两人分手八年后再次相遇，上校不能冰释怨恨，违心追求他人；而安妮也险些接受伪君子堂兄的求婚。在因为家族事务而引发的一系列交往中，上校进一步发现安妮的无私与坚贞无人能比，而安妮也在一次次自我劝导中找回了爱的勇气。他们发现，重新团聚比第一次相爱更为幸福，于是，经受了考验的他们不再若即若离，开始尽情地回忆并表白…… 《诺桑觉寺》：一部极出彩的讽刺喜剧。痴迷于哥特式恐怖小说的乡村牧师之女凯瑟琳，有时把现实生活也当成传奇故事中的虚拟世界。她被带着去巴思社交场合见世面，结交了虚情假意的索普兄妹，并与正直英俊的富家子弟亨利一见钟情后，受亨利的父亲蒂尔尼上将盛情相邀前去他家做客。在诺桑觉寺这所幽深、古老的宅子里，凯瑟琳脑海里浮现出恐怖小说中的可怖情景，上演了一幕幕可笑的历险记。嫌贫爱富的蒂尔尼上将听信索普的谗言，出尔反尔，对凯瑟琳冷酷地下了逐客令。然而爱情的忠贞最终战胜小人的谎言：教堂的钟声响了，人人都喜笑颜开。

Sense and Sensibility：This selection of Carroll's works includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books for children have ever been written. The simple language, dreamlike atmosphere, and fantastical characters are as appealing to young readers today as ever they were. Meanwhile, however, these apparently simple stories have become recognised as adult masterpieces, and extraordinary experiments, years ahead of their time, in Modernism and Surrealism. Through wordplay, parody and logical and philosophical puzzles, Carroll engenders a variety of sub-texts, teasing, ominous or melancholy. For all the surface playfulness there is meaning everywhere. The author reveals himself in glimpses. 点击链接进入中文版： 理智与情感