Austen, Jane

In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.

Mrs. Bennet hunts for husbands for her five daughters, who offer no help themselves.

A supremely self-assured young lady determined to arrange her life and the lives of all around her into a pattern dictated by her romantic fantasy.

The story of a self-assured young lady, Emma, who is determined to arrange her life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her romantic fancy.

Presents Austen's novel in which Fanny, a girl of low social rank brought up on her wealthy relatives' estate, feels the sharp sting of rejection when her cousin Edmund, the only person who treats her as an equal, is won over by an unprincipled London girl; and includes explanatory notes and appendices on social status, dancing, the British Navy, and the play "Lovers' Vows.".

Two sisters of opposing temperaments share the pangs of tragic love. Their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between them, and true love finally triumphs.

Two sisters of opposing temperaments share the pangs of tragic love, but their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between them, and true love finally triumphs.