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1) Persuasion

Author

Austen, Jane

Series

BiblioBazaar reproduction
Penguin classics
Jane Austen Children's Stories

Language

English

Formats

Book, CD, eAudiobook, eBook

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Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell.

2) Emma

Author

Austen, Jane

Series

Complete Jane Austen collection
Emma
Classic collection)
Marjolein Bastin classics
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Language

English

Formats

Book, CD, eAudiobook, eBook, eComic

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Emma's opening sentence, which describes the titular heroine's many advantages, is loaded with foreboding. Discomfort and vexation lie on the horizon, triggered by her penchant for matchmaking. Emma's latest scheme involves finding a suitable husband for ingenue Harriet Smith, and to that end she persuades the latter to reject good-natured farmer Robert Martin, despite a mutual attraction. Harriet must set her sights higher, she exhorts, fixing on...

3) Pride and prejudice : a novel

Author

Austen, Jane

Series

Dover thrift editions
Classic Lines
World's classics
Penguin classics deluxe edition
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Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Jane Austen is one of the founders of classic novels for women. Her most famous novel Pride and Prejudice is rightfully considered to be the masterpiece of the world literature. Walter Scott, Somerset Maugham, Virginia Woolf and Richard Aldington admired the talented (3z(Bfirst Lady(3y (Bof the English literature. Wittily and directly described actions of the Pride and Prejudice happen in provincial England in the end of eighteenth century. For about...