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. Can't find what you want? Search on Bookshop.orgShowing 1–12 of 102 results
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Lady Susan
£7.99Lady 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Together, these three works – one novel unpublished in her lifetime and two unfinished fragments – reveal Jane Austen’s development as a great artist.
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Mansfield Park
£11.99Mansfield Park
First published in 1814, this is a study of three families – the Bertrams, the Crawfords and the Prices – in which Jane Austen uses the unlikely heroine, Fanny Price, to explore the social and moral values by which these families’ lives are ordered.
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Sense and Sensibility
£14.99Sense 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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Emma
£7.99Emma
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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Mansfield Park
£7.99Mansfield 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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Sense and Sensibility
£7.99Sense 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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Northanger Abbey
£7.99Northanger 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
£7.99Persuasion
‘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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Emma
£5.99Emma
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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Pride and Prejudice
£16.99Pride and Prejudice
‘Pride and Prejudice’ is one of the best loved and most intimately known of Jane Austen’s novels. Her sense of comedy and satire makes this an enduring classic of English literature.
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Sense and Sensibility
£16.99Sense 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.
£16.99