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Jane Austen's nephew James knew her fondly as Aunt Jane when he was a child, attended her funeral in Winchester Cathedral as a young man, and wrote this memoir of...

'...in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up his wife, she had scarcely sinned against his character, or magnified his cruelty.' Northanger Abbey is about the misadventures of...

The next in our rejacketing of a crucial Classics author Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John...

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...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1232 In a publishing career that spanned less than a decade, Jane Austen revolutionised the literary romance, using it as a stage...

Part of the Vintage Classics Austen Series- all six of Jane Austen's major novels, beautifully designed by writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by our finest contemporary writers 'Jane...

The complete works of Jane Austen in clothbound classics, together for the first time in a Coralie Bickford-Smith-designed box set Sense and Sensibility | Pride and Prejudice | Mansfield Park...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen never goes out of style. Jane Austen's much-loved novels vividly describe 19th-century society. But they are also timeless classics that continue...

Part of the Vintage Classics Austen Series- all six of Jane Austen's major novels, beautifully designed by writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by our finest contemporary writers Jane...

Author: James ThompsonBinding: HardbackPublished: THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Some silverfish damage on DJ.This academic study, Between...

Part of the Vintage Classics Austen Series- all six of Jane Austen's major novels, beautifully designed by writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by our finest contemporary writers 'Beautifully...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Part of the acclaimed Literature in Perspective series, this critical study presents...

The book titled A Jane Austen Miscellany: Sisters, Suitors, Familes Friends by the author Jane Austen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This beautifully illustrated book charts the life of one of the world's most beloved authors, through the objects that surrounded her, the personal letters and manuscripts that she created, and...

'Truly marvellous. I cannot think of a better life of Jane Austen than Claire Tomalin's' Philip Hensher Claire Tomalin brings her extraordinary gifts of scholarship, fluent writing and empathy for...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew names in the English literary canon carry the enduring weight of Jane Austen's, and this magnificent omnibus...

This work provides a comprehensive historical and social examination of the period Jane Austen wrote in - a time when England was developing into a colonial power, while George III...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedBefore Jane Austen gifted the world with Pride and Prejudice and Emma, she was already a writer of remarkable wit...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This is my kind of history: carefully researched but so vivid that you are convinced Lucy Worsley was actually there at the party - or the...

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'It is good to meet the real Jane Austen at last' Independent on Sunday 'Brilliantly illuminating ... by focusing, chapter by chapter, on one thread or...

A beautiful new book in our deluxe series of romantic reads brings together two of Jane Austen's most popular novels. Sense and Sensibility is much filmed and celebrated for its...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility is now available in an exclusive collector's edition featuring a delicate laser-cut jacket on a textured...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey is now available in an exclusive collector's edition featuring a delicate laser-cut jacket on a textured book...

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What does Jane Austen mean when she writes approvingly of a character's 'gentility' and 'delicacy', or critically of another's 'indolence' and 'impertinence'? What are her characters doing when they take...

Author: Fay Weldon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Alice is an eighteen-year-old student and aspiring novelist with green spiky hair, a child of the modern age who recoils at...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Usual aging. Shelf wear. A spirited collection of literary and cultural...

Edition: War Standard EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. DJ within mylar....

Jane Austen traces the author's life and times, her personal relationships, the attitudes and customs of the time that shaped her and were in turn shaped by her work, and...

Part of the Vintage Classics Austen Series- all six of Jane Austen's major novels, beautifully designed by writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by our finest contemporary writers 'It...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Jane Austen's Mansfield Park is now available in an exclusive collector's edition featuring a delicate laser-cut jacket on a textured book...

Part of the Vintage Classics Austen Series- all six of Jane Austen's major novels, beautifully designed by writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by our finest contemporary writers Discover...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024! 'Percival Everett is a giant of American letters, and James is a canon-shatteringly great book' - Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust From...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Jane Austen's Persuasion is now available in an exclusive collector's edition featuring a delicate laser-cut jacket on a textured book with...

Jane Austen's letters and diaries from the period preceding her first novel have never been found. It's believed that they were intentionally destroyed by her sister Cassandra, but no one...

Author: Peter LeachBinding: HardbackPublished: A. Zwemmer, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Discoloured top-edge from tanning and minor tanning throughout entire book, sun-faded DJ.-

Author: H. A. L. FisherBinding: HardbackPublished: The Macmillan Company, 1927Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis set details the life and times of James Bryce, Viscount Bryce of...