Jane Austen

Novelist Jane Austen was a Hampshire local who spent the last weeks of her life just a few doors down from P&G Wells. Her family held an account at the shop when it was run by John Burdon and she wrote about books purchased from "Burdon" in letters to her sister Cassandra.
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  • Lady Susan

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    Lady Susan

    Together, these three works – one novel unpublished in her lifetime and two unfinished fragments – reveal Jane Austen’s development as a great artist.

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  • Sense and Sensibility

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    Sense and Sensibility

    Jane Austen sets social snobbery against summer picnics; social rejection against the passion of real love. Her warm portrait of the relationship between two very different sisters contrasts her precise observation of vanity, selfishness and snobbery.

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    £14.99
  • Emma

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    Emma

    Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen’s most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organises the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.

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  • Sense and Sensibility

    £7.99

    Sense and Sensibility

    Jane Austen sets social snobbery against summer picnics; social rejection against the passion of real love. Her warm portrait of the relationship between two very different sisters contrasts her precise observation of vanity, selfishness and snobbery. This edition includes explanatory notes, and an introduction.

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  • Mansfield Park

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    Mansfield Park

    ‘Mansfield Park’ is Jane Austen’s most profound and perplexing novel. Sutherland shows that it challenges the very values (tradition, stability, retirement and faithfulness) it appears to endorse. This edition includes a new chronology, and additional suggestions for further reading.

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  • Northanger Abbey

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    Northanger Abbey

    Catherine Morland meets all the trappings of Gothic horror and imagines the worst. Disaster does eventually strike, as it does in the real world as distinct from the romantic one, but without spoiling the wonderful atmosphere of this story.

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  • Persuasion

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    Persuasion

    ‘Persuasion’ is the story of Anne Elliot, intelligent daughter of a spendthrift baronet, and her love for Frederick Wentworth. She is persuaded to refuse his proposition of marriage and spends seven unhappy years until he re-enters her life.

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  • The Complete Poems of James Austen

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    The Complete Poems of James Austen

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  • Emma

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    Emma

    Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen’s most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organises the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.

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  • Sense and Sensibility

    £16.99

    Sense and Sensibility

    Jane Austen sets social snobbery against summer picnics; social rejection against the passion of real love. Her warm portrait of the relationship between two very different sisters contrasts her precise observation of vanity, selfishness and snobbery.

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    £16.99
  • So You Think You Know Jane Austen?

    £6.99

    So You Think You Know Jane Austen?

    Ace literary detective John Sutherland and Austen buff Deirdre Le Faye challenge the reader to discover just how well you really know your favourite author. Starting with easy, factual questions the quiz progresses to find out how much you know by deduction and hypothesis- what really motivates the characters, and what is going on underneath the surface? Hugely entertaining as well as full of fascinating insights, So You Think You Know Jane Austen?guarantees you will know her much better after reading it. The answers are at the back!

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  • Emma

    £16.99

    Emma

    Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen’s most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organises the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.

    SKU: 9780141192475 Category:
    £16.99