Jane Austen

Gard, Roger / ref: Jane Austen: Jane Austen's Novels - The Art of Clarity - discussion of the works of Austen, London Yale University Pub. 1992 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; 1. Ed. ISBN: 0300054947
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1992 Hardcover in DJ 1st Edition ... BRAND NEW from publisher , imported from London ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... 261 pages with index ... This is a handsome boook; Midnight Blue cloth over boards, with Gold gilt titles on spine, in glossy color jacket with matching midnight blue inside flaps; Jacket cover illustration detail from J.M.W. Turner painting " Petworth : The Old Library, c. 1828 " ... Author Roger Gard, presently Reader in English at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, has previously written books on Jane Austen, as well as on Henry James, and on the subject of teaching of English literature and fiction in schools ... He is quoted as saying, with regard to Jane Austen : " it may sound absurd to say that a novelist sometimes needs to be protected from her admirers. Nevertheless ... " .... Although Jane Austen has long been England's best-loved novelist, much criticism in modern times has tended to ignore the sheer appeal and accessibility of her novels ... and instead to treat them as mere material ... the preserve of academics, feminists, historical specialists, and would-be radical theorists ... This book is at once a thoughtful and detailed discussion of Austen's oeuvre and a provocative and witty commentary , that will stimulate all readers ... This book offers lively and perceptive discussions of the six major novels .. Northanger Abbey ... Sense and Sensibility ... Pride and Prejudice ... Mansfield Park ... Emma ... and Persuasion ... together with the early " Lady Susan " ... and the unfinished " Sanditon " ... The precise nature and scope of Austen's realism ... her particularly English approach to the world ... and the characteristic blend in her work of a sharp scepticism about human nature and its banality .. with an idealism about human virtue ... are themes which recur throughout this study .... The book is moreover notable for the original and striking links it makes between Jane Austen and other notable authors ... ranging from Shakespeare to Flaubert, Lawrence, George Eliot and Barbara Pym ... Albeit on a much discussed topic, the beloved Jane Austen, this book nontheless has something new to say in every chapter, and the author says it with authority and with style ... Leonce Ormond at Kings College, University of London, says of this work that it is " ... sharp and exciting ... brilliant in the best sense " ... Kate Fullbrook of Bristol Polytechnic says it is " An extremely fine and elegantly written study of Jane Austen's novels. It should appeal to a wide range of readers ... " .... " Jane Austen's Novels - The Art of Clarity " ... by Roger Gard ... published by Yale University Press, London ... 1992 ... First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket *** Securely packed for safe delivery ~ We've been shipping books across North America and around the World, since 1965 ~ Family owned & operated for more than 40 years ~ Online sellers for 10 years ! *** First Edition New Hard Cover in Dust Jacket 6-1/4 x 9-1/2 x 1"; First Edition

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SPENCE, JON. Becoming Jane Austen. The Continuum Publishing Company, New York: 2007.

294 pages. Jon Spence's fascinating biography of Jane Austen paints an intimate portrait of the much-loved novelist. Spence's meticulous research has, perhaps most notably, uncovered evidence that Austen and the charming young Irishman Tom Lefroy fell in love at the age of twenty and that the relationship inspired Pride and Prejudice, one of the most celebrated works of fiction ever written. Becoming Jane Austen gives the fullest account we have of the romance, which was more serious and more enduring than previously believed. Seeing this love story in the context of Jane Austen's whole life enables us to appreciate the profound effect the relationship had on her art and on subsequent choices that she made in her life. Full of insight and with an attentive eye for detail, Spence explores Jane Austen's emotional attachments and the personal influences that shaped her as a novelist. His elegant narrative provides a point of entry into Jane Austen's world as she herself perceived and experienced it. It is a world familiar to us from her novels, but in Becoming Jane Austen, Austen herself is the heroine. "Jon Spence has given us the most cogent portrait of Jane Austen's literary life to date." -Julia Barrett, author of Presumption, The Third Sister and Jane Austen's Charlotte British Heritage Magazine Softcover. Brand new book.

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AUSTEN, JANE; ILLUSTRATED BY C.E. BROCK. THE NOVELS OF JANE AUSTEN, PRIDE & PREJUDICE; SENSE & SENSIBILITY; MANSFIELD PARK; NORTHANGER ABBEY; PERSUASION, IN TEN VOLUMES. London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1898.
Few volumes have light foxing to ep's and edges of frontispiece and title page, rubbing of extremities. Text is very clean, no inscriptions, all solidly bound in covers. Most volumes still have original silk marker. Each novel has a preface. Each volume has been covered in archival clear film for protection. 12 mo. A scarce publication of this special collection of Jane Austen's classic novels, in very presentable condition. Please click for image. This is a ten volume set, it requires additional postage.

First edition thus One of the most vivid literary portrayals of England's Regency Period comes alive through Jane Austen's novels. Each volume is an eloquent time capsule of 19th century social customs, dress, and life through the eyes of the various levels of English Gentry. Austen's straightforward speech and ability to satirize the situations of her colorful characters has created generations of readers throughout the world. These special ten volumes are the first colorized versions by the famed British water colorist, illustrator (Charles) C.E. Brock (1870-1938), and his brother Henry Matthew Brock (1875-1960). The novels are bound in original pale green cloth illustrated with dark green decorations and a young woman, gilt title, volume number and author to front board. Decorations to spines, gilt title, author and publisher. Top edge gilt, deckled page edges. End papers are decorated and have a teal colored "A", rear e.p. teal color publisher's initials. Mild foxing of e.p.'s, title pages decorated, with two color lettering teal and green. Spines are mildly toned, no inscriptions, solidly bound in covers, mild soiling of boards, with rubbing and some light fraying at tips. Sense & Sensibility, two volumes: vol. I. mild cloth bubbling to spine. Frontispiece (I) Jane Austen, said to be painted by Johann Zoffany of Austen at 15. Included is a list of Miss Austen's novels, chronologically arranged, showing how many Editions of each were published in her lifetime. There is an eleven page Memoir of Miss Austen by Reginald Brimley Johnson. These contain a total of 13 tissue covered illustrations. Small old Brentano's Bookseller sticker to rear lower edge paste down. Emma vol. I. mild cloth bubbles to spine and boards, verso to pre-title page states:" First Edition, August 1898, Second Edition, 1900". Front hinge cracked. Following title page: "To His Royal Highness The Prince Regent, This Work is, by His Royal Highness's Permission, Most Respectfully Dedicated by His Royal Highness's Dutiful and Obedient Humble Servant, The Author [Reprinted from the First Edition, 1816]. Preface about the novel and statement. The Prince Regent (George Augustus Frederick) was great admirer of Jane Austen's novels. Austen was granted permission to visit his lavish residence in London during which his librarian communicated to her the Prince's agreement and the request of Miss Austen to dedicate a novel to his Royal Highness. A total 12 tissue covered illustrations including frontispiece. Hinge cracked between frontispiece and title page both volumes. Pride & Prejudice, two volumes, volumes state "First Edition, August 1898, Second Edition 1899, Third Edition, October 1900," to verso of Pre-title page. Volume II frontispiece is missing. Hinges cracked between frontispiece and title page, a total of 11 tissue covered illustrations. Brentano's sticker to rear paste down lower edge. Mansfield Park, two volumes, hinge cracked between frontispiece and title page. Volume II, lower front and rear joints 1 inch closed tears with fraying. Total of 12 tissue covered illustrations. Northanger Abbey: First & Second Edition statement, preface, Advertisement "By The Authoress to Northanger Abbey". Hinge cracked between frontispiece and title, total of 6 tissue covered illustrations. Persuasion, spine repaired, mild fraying of joints. First & Second Edition statement, front hinge cracked between frontispiece and title, and between pages 250-251. Total of 6 tissue covered illustrations. Cloth Very Good

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Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice, TOR Classics August 15, 1994 ISBN: 0812523369
,,"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."\nNext 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. \nHaving 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

Condition;Very Good ,Paperback ,"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."\nNext 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. \nHaving 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

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