![]() ![]() ![]() Northern Lights introduces Lyra, an orphan, who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. In his award-winning fantasy trilogy, HIS DARK MATERIALS, Philip Pullman invents a richly detailed and marvellously imagined world that is complex and thought-provoking enough to enthral readers of all ages. The King Must Die/The Bull From the Sea.The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate.Translated by Marjorie Laurie Introduction by Catriona Seth.They are a form of civilsation.’ĭAME ANTONIA BYATT EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY LATEST RELEASES The new Everyman is so beautifully produced. My shelves are full of tough Everymans from the 1920s onwards which I used and scribbled in as a student, teacher and writer from the 1950s to now. All books include substantial introductions by major scholars and contemporary writers, and comparative chronologies of literary and historical context. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but she died before completing it at the age of 41.The finest editions available of the world's greatest classics from Homer to Achebe, Tolstoy to Ishiguro, Proust to Pullman, printed on a fine acid-free, cream-wove paper that will not discolour with age, with sewn, full cloth bindings and silk ribbon markers, and at remarkably low prices. During this period she wrote and extensively revised three major novels and began a fourth, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Although Jane Austen wrote from her teenage years into her thirties, her most notable writing was done from 1811 until 1816. Her plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security. Her realism and biting social commentary has gained her historical importance among scholars and critics, though her work brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime. Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the British middle class, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Lovecraft, and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Other titles in the series include: The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Complete Sherlock Holmes, The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Tales of H.P. Celebrate these beloved works of literature as true standouts in your personal library collection. Complete and unabridged, these elegantly designed gift editions feature luxe, patterned endpapers, ribbon markers, and foil and deboss details on vibrantly colored cases. The Timeless Classics series from Rock Point brings together the works of classic authors from around the world. Austen's works continue to influence the course of the novel even as they charm readers today. The second half of the 20th century saw a proliferation of Austen scholarship and the emergence of a fan culture. It wasn't until the 1940s that she became widely accepted in academia as a great English writer. In a publishing career that spanned less than ten years, her work brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime. Austen's heroines find happiness in many forms, each of the novels is a story of love and marriage-marriage for love, financial security, and for social status. With witty, unflinching morality, Austen portrays English middle-class life as the eighteenth century came to a close and the nineteenth century began. The novels included in this collection from the elegant Knickerbocker Classics series- Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Lady Susan-represent all of Austen's complete novels, and provide the reader with an entrance into the world she and her memorable characters inhabited. This elegantly designed hardcover edition of The Complete Novels of Jane Austen features an introduction, providing the reader with enlightening information on Austen's life and works.īook Synopsis Jane Austen revolutionized the literary romance, using it as a platform from which to address issues of gender politics and class consciousness among the British middle-class of the late eighteenth century.
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