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The wisdom of Jane Austen

2003
Excerpts from the writings of Jane Austen offer insight into her views on a variety of subjects, including marriage, education, fashion, friendship, pride, poverty, and love.

Critical essays on Jane Austen

1998
A collection of critical essays that discuss the life and work of Jane Austen.

The Jane Austen handbook

a sensible yet elegant guide to her world
2007
A guide to proper behavior for young ladies in Regency England, offering advice on how to identify "the Quality, " ensure a good yearly income, write a letter, keep house, raise children, treat the sick, buy clothing, choose a husband, decline a proposal, behave at a dinner party, and many other topics.

Emma

complete, authoritative text with biographical, historical, and cultural contexts, critical history, and essays from contemporary critical perspectives
2002

Sense & Sensibility

2011
A graphic novel adaptation of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" that follows the hardships, romances, and heartbreaks of sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood.

Pride & prejudice

2010
A graphic novel adaptation of Jane Austen's beloved novel "Pride & Prejudice" in which Lizzy Bennet and her eccentric family try to navigate the turbulent social circles of London.

Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey

2012
A graphic novel adaptation of Jane Austen's novel "Northanger Abbey, " set in England, in which innocent young Catherine Morland, fresh from the country, enters into Bath society with dreams and fantasies sparked by her love of gothic romance novels, which makes it difficult for her to distinguish between fact and fiction when she meets dashing Henry Tilney.

Jane Austen's Emma

2012
A graphic novel adaptation of Jane Austen's beloved novel "Emma, " set in Regency England, in which twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse learns lessons about meddling in affairs of the heart the hard way.

Jane Austen ruined my life

2009
Emma, the daughter of a minister who has always believed God has a plan for her life, finds her faith shaken when she catches her husband in a compromising position with her assistant, and denied tenure in her position as an English professor because of the resulting scandal, she travels to London in pursuit of a cache of letters written by Jane Austen, and gains insights into her own life and future.

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