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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
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| English novelist Jane Austen
was born 1775 at the rectory in Steventon, Hampshire, one of two daughters
of the Rev. George Austen and his wife Cassandra. Austen's literary strength
lies in the delineation of character, especially of women, by delicate
touches arising out of the most natural and everyday incidents in the life
of the middle and upper classes, from which her subjects are generally
taken.
Adhering to a common contemporary
practice for female authors, Austen published her novels anonymously. Her
novels achieved a measure of popular success and esteem, yet her anonymity
kept her out of leading literary circles. Although all her works are love
stories, and although her career coincided with the Romantic movement in
literature, Jane Austen was not an intensely passionate Romantic.
Her characters, though of
quite ordinary types, are drawn with such firmness and precision, and with
such significant detail as to retain their individuality intact through
their entire development, and they are uncoloured by her own personality.
Her view of life seems largely genial, with a strong dash of gentle but
keen irony.
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In popular culture, Austen's
novels have been adapted in a great number of film and television series,
varying greatly in their faithfulness to the originals.
Pride and Prejudice has
been the most reproduced of her works, with six films. Emma has been adapted
to film five times. Sense and Sensibility has been made into four films.
Persuasion has been adapted into two television series and one feature
film. Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey have both been made into films. |
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8
Books in 1, Jane Austen's Complete Novels
(Hardcover)
Jane Austen's complete novels,
collected together in one uniquely comprehensive volume. Comprises the
complete text of: "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield
Park", "Emma", "Northanger Abbey", "Persuasion", "Lady Susan", and "Love
and Friendship". This is the only single-volume edition of Jane Austen's
novels to contain not only the wickedly humorous "Lady Susan", but also
the irrepressibly exuberant early work "Love and Friendship". This collection
allows readers to explore the development of one of the English language's
greatest writers, following her development from the farcical comedy of
"Love and Friendship" and "Northanger Abbey", via her most popular work,
"Pride and Prejudice", to the masterpiece "Emma", and the considered romance
of "Persuasion".
A unique collection of the
finest and most perceptive love stories ever written. |
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Jane
Austen Collection (Sense & Sensibility / Emma / Persuasion / Mansfield
Park / Pride & Prejudice / Northanger Abbey) DVD
The socially restricted lives
of 18th-century women hardly seems like a subject that would inspire dozens
of 20th (and 21st) century adaptations--but the brilliant novels of Jane
Austen are flush with sparkling dialogue, razor-sharp wit, marvelously
realized characters that range from adorably sympathetic to grotesquely
comic, and--above all--ingeniously intricate plots, which arrive at a seemingly
inevitable happy conclusion yet keep you seized with suspense every inch
of the way. The Jane Austen Collection pulls together six BBC miniseries
from 1971 through 1987, one for each of Austen's much-beloved books. |
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