During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who shares Catherine's love of Gothic romance and horror, and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father's mysterious house, Northanger Abbey. There, her imagination influenced by novels of sensation and intrigue, Catherine imagines terrible crimes committed by General Tilney. With its broad comedy and irrepressible heroine, this is the most youthful and and optimistic of Jane Austen's works.

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 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. This edition includes explanatory notes, textual variants between the first and second editions, and Tony Tanner's introduction to the original Penguin Classic edition.

《诺桑觉寺(英文全本)》内容简介：世界文学名著表现了作者描述的特定时代的文化。阅读这些名著可以领略著者流畅的文笔、逼真的描述、详细的刻画，让读者如同置身当时的历史文化之中。为此，我们将这套精心编辑的“名著典藏”奉献给广大读者。

在线阅读本书 Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published. Whether it is her sharp, ironic gaze at the Gothic genre invoked by the adventures of Catherine Morland in "Northanger Abbey"; the diffident and much put-upon Fanny Price struggling to cope with her emotions in "Mansfield Park"; her delightfully paced comedy of manners and the machinations of the sisters Elinor and Marianne in "Sense and Sensibility"; the quiet strength of Anne Elliot in "Persuasion" succeeding in a world designed to subjugate her very existence; and "Emma" - 'a heroine whom no one but myself will like' teased Austen - yet another irresistible character on fire with imagination and foresight. Indeed not unlike her renowned creator. Jane Austen is as sure-footed in her steps through society's whirlpools of convention and prosaic mores as she is in her sometimes restrained but ever precise and enduring prose.

穿梭时空与大师共度文学生涯。《百家文学之旅》原版引自英国，由安东尼·伯吉斯等国际著名作家、学者撰稿，深受各国文学爱好者赞赏。京·沪·台著名外国文学专家专文推荐导读。 　　简·奥斯丁出生于十八世纪英格兰南部的中上层社会。在道德与宗教方面，她的态度倾向传统保守；在政治方面，她支持的是保皇党——她不断在她的小说中营造出这样的环境背景。事实上，她的成长环境为她的才华提供了十分良好的发展条件：对人物的精确观察，机智、强烈的直觉，对现实生活对话的高灵敏度，谨慎的判断力。我们从简·奥斯丁早期的讽刺小说《诺桑觉修道院》和《理智与情感》中就能明显看出她这些天分。在她文笔臻于成熟时的伟大作品，如《傲慢与偏见》、《曼斯菲尔德庄园》、《爱玛》和《劝导》中，她更是将这些天分发挥得淋漓尽致。这本传记收录了多幅插图，是热爱简·奥斯丁小说家暨评论家玛甘妮塔·拉斯奇，在长期研究这位英国女作家的作品、书信，以及十八世纪当时的历史背景后，所撰写出的精心杰作。

该选集收录简·奥斯丁现存书信约三分之一，作家当时的生活状况及人际交往从中可窥见一斑。本书信集的注释已减少至最低限度，主要限于身份不清或易混淆的人名。简·奥斯丁的书信没有分段。她尽可能写在一张信纸上，因为多用一张信纸将耗费她双倍邮资。 根据《简明不列颠百科全书》的说法，简·奥斯丁是“第一个现实地描绘日常平凡生活中平凡人物的小说家。（她的作品）反映了当时英国中产阶级生活的喜剧，显示了‘家庭’文学的可能性。她多次探索青年女主角从恋爱到结婚中自我发现的过程。这种着力分析人物性格以及女主角和社会之间紧张关系的做法，使她的小说摆脱十八世纪的传统而接近于现代的生活。正是这种现代性，加上她的机智和风趣，她的现实主义和同情心，她的优雅的散文和巧妙的故事结构，使她的小说能长期吸引读者。”并且说：“当时（指十九世纪初）流行夸张戏剧性的浪漫小说，已使人们所厌倦，奥斯丁的朴素的现实主义启清新之风，受到读者的欢迎……到二十世纪，人们才认识到她是英国摄政王时期（1810～1820）最敏锐的观察者，她严肃地分析了当时社会的性质和文化的质量，记录了旧社会向现代社会的转变。现代评论家也赞佩奥斯丁小说的高超的组织结构，以及她能于平凡而狭窄有限的情节中揭示生活的悲喜剧的精湛技巧。”

《诺桑觉寺》与奥斯丁其他几部长篇一样，故事围绕着男女主人公的爱情的发展而越来越扣人心弦。天真得有点傻的女主人公凯瑟琳是家境小康的牧师之女，长到十七岁了，还没有遇上能打动她少女心扉的男主人公，因此生活平平淡淡。然而，她的好朋友，当地的富有人家艾伦夫妇俩要到巴思去度假，带她一起外出。巴思的社交场所让她开了眼界，并结识了富家之子、牧师亨利・蒂尔尼与他妹妹艾丽诺・蒂尔尼，他们很快成了好朋友，凯瑟琳并且爱上了亨利・蒂尔尼。 凯瑟琳在离家三个月之后，在没有朋友陪伴的情景下，孤身一人搭乘邮车，于一个星期日之夜回到了富勒顿。心地善良的母亲见女儿回家已是判若两人，总以为她是留恋外面世界的诱人，而竟猜不到十七岁的女儿的感情世界发生了很大的变化。亨利・蒂尔尼的意外出现，终于让凯瑟琳父母明白，他们必须考虑是否要同意女儿的婚事了。

凯瑟琳·莫兰在舞会上爱上了亨利·蒂尼。同时，她还碰到了另一位青年约翰·索普。索普为了抬高自己的身价，向亨利的父亲蒂尼将军谎报了莫兰家的财产，蒂尼将军信以为真，竭力怂恿儿子去追求凯瑟琳。后来，索普追求凯瑟琳的奢望破灭，便恼羞成怒，把以前吹捧莫兰家的话全盘推翻，说她家如何贫穷。蒂尼将军再次听信谗言，把凯瑟琳赶出了家门，并勒令儿子把她忘掉。但是两位青年恋人并没有屈服，他们经过一番周折，终于结为伉俪。

达希伍德一家定居苏塞克斯己有很长时间了。他们的家业颇大,住宅坐落在他们地产的中心，诺兰德庄园,他们家好几代人都住在这里，在四邻中享有很高的声望。这份家业后期的主人是个长寿的单身汉。在他的一生中，许多年都是他妹妹做他的伙伴和女管家。但是她先他十年去世了，这使他家里发生了天翻地覆的变化。为了弥补她的离去，他把他的侄儿亨利·达希伍德先生一家接到了他家里。他侄儿是诺兰德庄园的合法继承人，他打算把这笔遗产交给他。这位老绅士的晚年是和侄儿、侄媳以及他们的孩子们共享天伦之乐。他越来越喜欢他们。亨利·达希伍德先生和太太不仅对他的兴趣，而且对他善良的愿望都十分关心，这使他的晚年甚得安慰，孩子带来的欢乐，更为他增添了生活的乐趣。 　　亨利·达希伍德先生的前妻生了一个儿子，现在的太太生了三个女儿。儿子是个沉着可敬的年青人，有生母留给他的那笔财产，他生活得很自在。他生母有一大笔财产，他长大以后，她把一半的财产给了他。

《诺桑觉寺(经典插图本)》内容简介：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。 20幅原版插图生动再现经典场景。

《曼斯菲尔德庄园》主要内容：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入意料，却也在情理之中。

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground. Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree. --Alix Wilber --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Austen is the hot property of the entertainment world with new feature film versions of Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility on the silver screen and Pride and Prejudice hitting the TV airwaves on PBS. Such high visibility will inevitably draw renewed interest in the original source materials. These new Modern Library editions offer quality hardcovers at affordable prices. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Jane Lapotaire, known to American audiences from her many PBS appearances, is a perfect choice to read Jane Austen's comedy of manners. Her rich and varied intonations capture just the right blend of artifice and empathy to recreate not only the lively and playfully witty Elizabeth Bennett and the handsome, albeit conceited, Mr. Darcy, but also the entire gamut of Bennett family members, friends and foes. Amazingly, Lapotaire even manages to conjure memories of the screen's Mr. D', Lawrence Olivier. This is an exquisite audio abridgment of the classic English satire. L.(H.)B. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. We recently purchased three of your classics series hardcovers for our 15 year old daughter's birthday, and she was estatic. The books are beautifully done, and it was nice to see that they used the original versions' formatting. We anxiously look forward to any new volumes you may add. 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编辑推荐：《傲慢与偏见》描写四桩婚事：伊丽莎白与达西；简与宾利；莉迪亚与魏肯；夏洛蒂与柯林斯。故事是围绕着班纳特太太如何把女儿们嫁出去的问题展开的，情节起伏跌宕，妙趣横生，通篇闪耀着机智与幽默。大女儿吉英温柔美貌，与伦敦来的阔少爷彬格莱先生相爱，并默默等待他的求婚。二女儿伊丽莎白聪明活泼，拒绝了愚蠢的装腔作势的柯林斯牧师的求婚。可“傲慢”的贵族青年达西却情不自禁地爱上了她，但伊丽莎白听信了青年军官

凯瑟琳·莫兰是个牧师的女儿，她随乡绅艾伦夫妇来到矿泉疗养地巴思，在舞会上遇见并爱上了青年牧师亨利·蒂尔尼。亨利的父亲蒂尔尼将军误以为莫兰家很富有，于是竭力怂恿儿子去追求凯瑟琳，并邀请凯瑟琳去他们的府邸诺桑觉寺做客，把她视为自家人。后来，蒂尔尼将军又听说莫兰家一贫如洗，气急败坏地把凯瑟琳赶出了家门。但是两位年轻人并没有屈服，他们经过一番周折，终于结为伉俪。

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.

Only single-volume edition available of this exciting dramatic early novella which is an unknown work for Jane Austen's many fans. Written in a series of letters to the daughter of a friend, Love and Friendship tells of a young girl's path to betrayal, by way of a seemingly ecstatic marriage. It is accompanied by The Three Sisters, another expertly crafted epistolary novel. When a noble youth arrives unannounced to request the hand of the matchless Laura, it seems their future is one of contentment and bliss - that is until his family learn of the marriage and, one by one, they reject the new bride. Such begins the series of unspeakable events that make up Laura's lot in life. But tragedy and comedy here go hand in hand as Austen delivers a stringent satire on drawing-room society, brilliantly heralding her later masterpieces.

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.

大约三十年前，汉廷顿的玛利亚·伍德小姐，交上了好运，区区七千英镑的陪嫁,就赢得了北安普敦郡曼斯菲尔德庄园托马斯·伯特伦爵士的倾心，一步登天，成了准男爵夫人，住进了漂亮宅邪，年年有大量进项，真是享不尽的舒适安乐。汉廷顿的人们无不惊叹这门亲事攀得好，连她那位当律师的舅舅都说，她名下至少再加三干英镑，才有资格嫁这样的人家。她富贵起来，姐姐和妹妹当然也要沾点光，亲友中有些人认为她的姐姐伍德小姐和妹妹弗朗西丝小姐长得比玛利亚毫不逊色，因此断言，她们两人也会嫁给同样高贵的人家。可是，天底下腰缠万贯的男人太少，想要嫁给他们的美女太多。蹬舵了五六年，伍德小姐最后只好许身于她妹夫的一位朋友，几乎是一点财产没有的诺里斯牧师，弗朗西丝小姐的命运还不如伍德小姐。说实在的，伍德小姐的婚事还算过得去，托马斯爵士乐于帮助朋友，让诺里斯先生做曼斯菲尔德教区的牧师，给他提供了一份俸禄，这样，诺里斯先生和伍德小姐得享伉俪之乐的时候，每年的进项差不多有一千英镑。然而弗朗西丝小姐的婚事，却让家里人很失望，她居然看上了一个没有文化、没有家产、也没有门第的海军陆战队的中尉。为她的婚事，家里人都和她翻了脸，断了亲。他们认为，她随便嫁给谁都比嫁给这个人强。

The earliest of her six major novels, Northanger Abbey remained unpublished until after Jane Austen’s death. A deliciously witty satire of popular Gothic romances, it is perhaps Austen’s lightest, most delightful excursion into a young woman’s world. Catherine Morland, an unlikely heroine----unlikely because she is so ordinary----forsakes her English village for the pleasures and perils of Bath. There, among a circle of Austen’s wonderfully vain, dissembling, and fashionable characters, she meets a potential suitor, Henry Tilney. But with her imagination fueled by melodramatic novels, Catherine turns a visit to his home, Northanger Abbey, into a hunt for dark family secrets. The result is a series of hilarious social gaffes and harsh awakenings that for all of Austen’s youthful exuberance nevertheless conveys her mature vision of literature and life----and the consequences of mistaking one for the other.