Jane Austen:Emma & Persuasion

by Jane Austen

Emma. Novel Emma Wodehouse is the clever and charming young girl. She has everything that can only the big house in which she is the only hostess; the father who doesn't prevent to live; nice appearance and 30.000 pounds fortune. But only after the favourite governess has married and has left, she has a little started missing. Persuasion. Novel As it is heavy to live if you were separated from darling for the sake of whom with that life is ready to give. It isn't important what has promoted it. It is so precisely in the heart. What is costed by life after that? And that if you have destroyed by own hands the happiness, itself have rejected darling and you understand that he was the only unique and you do not find him any more…

Genres: Jane Austen, Classics

Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1816

About the author

Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage for the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works are an implicit critique of the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. Her deft use of social commentary, realism and biting irony have earned her acclaim among critics and scholars.

The anonymously published Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1816), were a modest success but brought her little fame in her lifetime. She wrote two other novels—Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1817—and began another, eventually titled Sanditon, but died before its completion. She also left behind three volumes of juvenile writings in manuscript, the short epistolary novel Lady Susan, and the unfinished novel The Watsons.
Since her death Austen's novels have rarely been out of print. A significant transition in her reputation occurred in 1833, when they were republished in Richard Bentley's Standard Novels series (illustrated by Ferdinand Pickering and sold as a set). They gradually gained wide acclaim and popular readership. In 1869, fifty-two years after her death, her nephew's publication of A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced a compelling version of her writing career and supposedly uneventful life to an eager audience. Her work has inspired a large number of critical essays and has been included in many literary anthologies. Her novels have also inspired many films, including 1940's Pride and Prejudice, 1995's Sense and Sensibility and 2016's Love & Friendship.

Reviews

[Anna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Из всех прочитанных книг Джейн Остин эта понравилась меньше всего... чем все закончится, было понятно с самого начала... кто за кого выйдет замуж, кто кого полюбит.... прекрасный язык... и ещё белая зависть: безбедное размеренное существование - языки почесать, поесть на ночь «мисочку овсянки», найти себе легкие затруднения на пустом месте просто так от скуки... чтение книг, прогулки на свежем воздухе, камин, посиделки... жизнь, а не мечта....

[Sophia Sineath · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's not my favorite Jane Austen, but I'm glad I read it.