Austin Jane Pride And Prejudice

Austen, Jane: Sense and Sensibility, New York Signet Book 1995
ISBN: 0451187903 Very Good

317 pp. First published, 1811. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. "With Mr. Dashwood's death, his wife and two daughters, Elinor and Marianne, must accustom themselves to genteel poverty. When Marianne meets the man of her dreams, everyone expects a marriage; unaccountably, he rejects her, with devastating effect. It falls to Elinor, the sensible elder sister, to pick up the pieces, while harboring a secret longing of her own. In Sense and Sensibility, the warmth between two very different sisters contrasts with Austen's deliciously precise observation of vanity, selfishness and snobbery. / Jane Austin was born on 16 December 1775 at Steventon near Basingstoke, the seventh child of the rector of the parish. She lived with her family at Steventon until they moved to Bath when her father retired in 1801. After his death in 1805, she moved around with her mother; in 1809, they settled in Chawton, near Alton, Hampshire. Here she remained, except for a few visits to London, until in May 1817 she moved to Winchester to be near her doctor. There she died on 18 July 1817. As a girl Jane Austen wrote stories, including burlesques of popular romances. Her works were only published after much revision, four novels being published in her lifetime. These are Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Two other novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, were published posthumously in 1818 with a biographical notice by her brother, Henry Austen, the first formal announcement of her authorship. Persuasion was written in a race against failing health in 1815-16. She also left two earlier compositions, a short epistolary novel, Lady Susan, and an unfinished novel, The Watsons. At the time of her death, she was working on a new novel, Sanditon, a fragmentary draft of which survives." - Publisher. Mass Market Paperback 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

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Austen, Jane illustrated by Charles E. Brock: Pride & Prejudice, [illustrated Pocket Classics] Published by Macmillan and Co. , London , 1907
18 x 12 cm approx.
Austen, Jane, Pride & Prejudice, [illustrated Pocket Classics]

, xxx, 352 pages, with introduction by Austin Dobson, 40 illustrations including tissue-guarded frontispiece Reprint 18 x 12 cm approx. Hardback , book has a slight lean to the right, a little faded along top front edge and adjacent to spine at rear, nice bright gilt, 1cm closed tear to top edge next to spine head, neat previous owner's inscription at front free endpaper, few spots but text and illustrations clean, in good+ condition 100.00 , limp red calf with gilt titles and floral decoration to front and spine, top edge gilt, red ribbon marker

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Great Books Series - Pride and Prejudice (The Learning Channel). The Learning Channel,
B0017SJVR2 VHS tape previously viewed in excellent condition. Extremely rare literary reference and educational program. Jane Austin's novel, Pride and Prejudice, tells a tale based on the familiar themes of love and marriage. Visit Jane Austine's home in Chatham, England and see where her ideas flourished. Nora Ephron, the creative force behind the romanitc comedy "When Harry Met Sally", and novelist Helen Fielding, the author of Bridget Jone's Diary, also share their insights about this timeless classic..

VHS TAPE, Very Good.

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AUSTEN, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. Pride and Prejudice. Emma. Mansfield Park. Northanger Abbey. Persuasion. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson and Charles E. Brock with an Introduction by Austin Dobson. London: Macmillan and Co. 1895-97.

Five volumes, "Sense and Sensibility" first reprint thus, the other volumes first edition thus, 8vo. Numerous black and white illustrations, "Pride and Prejudice" by Brock, the others by Thomson, three leaves in "Mansfield Park" with a closed tear, light foxing to the frontispiece tissues and to a lesser extent to the frontispieces and title pages, yellow peacock endpapers. Original gilt decorated red cloth, a.e.g., spines a little dull with rubbing to extremities, otherwise a handsome and scarce set.

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