Tác Giả jane austen

Kiêu Hãnh Và Định Kiến

“Có một triết lý hiển nhiên và quen thuộc là một anh chàng đơn thân giàu có hẳn phải cần một người vợ”. Đó là câu mở đầu đáng nhớ của “Kiêu hãnh và định kiến” - cuốn tiểu thuyết nổi tiếng hàng đầu thế giới được Jane Austen viết khi mới vừa đôi mươi.

Được đặt trong bối cảnh những năm 1800, tại thị trấn hư cấu Merton, “Kiêu hãnh và định kiến” là câu chuyện tình yêu giàu cảm xúc của năm cô con gái nhà Bennett, đặc biệt là chuyện tình giữa Elizabeth Bennet - cô con gái thứ hai, và Fitzwilliam Darcy - một quý tộc giàu có và nhiều danh vọng.

Tính kiêu hãnh về giai cấp và tài sản của mình cùng định kiến về vị thế thấp kém của gia đình Bennett khiến Darcy lúc đầu muốn tránh xa Elizabeth, trong khi sự kiêu hãnh vì lòng tự trọng của Elizabeth cũng như định kiến về cung cách trưởng giả của Darcy đã khiến cô trở thành một người con gái đặc biệt và duy nhất trong mắt Darcy. Elizabeth xinh đẹp, với cá tính nhạy bén, dí dỏm và cứng cỏi, được xem là một trong những nhân vật lôi cuốn nhất trong nền văn học Anh.

Tu Viện Northanger

Tu Viện Northanger là tác phẩm lãng mạn nhẹ nhàng, cực kỳ hóm hỉnh, với tuyến nhân vật nổi trội. Catherine là nhân vật nữ chính thú vị, ngốc nghếch hơn bất kỳ nhân vật nữ chính nào khác, John Thorpe và Isabella Thorpe là nhân vật phụ khó ưa hơn bất kỳ phụ khó ưa nào khác, hơn cả bà Bennet, dì Norris, hay Lucy Steele, trong những tác phẩm khác của Austen.

Dù là tiểu thuyết đầu tay và được viết khi Jane Austen còn rất trẻ (nhiều nguồn tin cho rằng, bà đã viết tác phẩm này vào khoảng năm 1794, khi bà 19 tuổi, và hoàn thành vào 1798, khi bà 24 tuổi) nhưng Tu Viện Northanger đã chứng tỏ Austen là một bậc thầy trào phúng. Những vấn đề xã hội, địa vị, cách ứng xử, và quy chuẩn đạo đức đã được bà đưa ra khai thác và đả kích một cách tài tình, ý nhị. Không phải vô duyên cớ mà bà được ngợi ca là một trong những tiểu thuyết gia vĩ đại nhất của mọi thời đại - nếu không muốn nói là vĩ đại nhất.

Young Adult Eli Readers - Sense And Sensibility - Stage 3 B1 - Downloadable Audio Files

The philosophical resolution of the novel is ambiguous: the reader must decide whether sense and sensibility have truly merged.

In this Reader you will find: Background information about this novel | A short biography of Jane Austen | Glossary of difficult words | Comprehension activities | Preliminarystyle activities | Exit test Tags Love | Society Elinor is careful but Marianne is not.

They both meet the man of their dreams, but will they find true happiness? Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen’s classic story of two sisters who have a lot to learn about love.

She has many rare and charming qualities but Sobriety is not one of themA selection of Austens dark and hilarious early writings featuring murder drunkenness perjury theft poisoning women breaking out of prison men forging wills and babies biting off their mothers fingers Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguins 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world and across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16thcentury California and the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical and savage poems epic and intimate essays satirical and inspirational and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions

Pride and Prejudice: The Sisterhood

Including an introduction from writer and feminist activist Scarlett Curtis, curator of Sunday Times Bestseller Feminists Don't Wear Pink.

The only thing in the world that matters to Mrs Bennett, is marrying all five of her daughters to rich, landed gentlemen.

So when two wealthy young gentlemen move to town, she vows that at least one of her daughters will marry into their fortunes.

Jane and Elizabeth, her eldest daughters, soon discover that love is rarely straightforward and is often surprising. Because, surely that sullen, quiet, mysterious Mr Darcy can't be more than he seems . . . can he?

The Sisterhood collection celebrates the best-loved classics, written by some of the best female authors in history for International Women's Day. Read the rest of the collection:

The Railway Children

Northanger Abbey (Alma Classics Evergreens)

While enjoying a six weeks' stay in fashionable Bath, the young and callow Catherine Morland is introduced to the delights of high society. Thanks to a new literary diet of the sensational and the macabre, Catherine travels to Northanger Abbey fully expecting to become embroiled in a Gothic adventure of intrigue and suspense – and, once there, soon begins to form the most gruesome and improbable theories about the exploits of its occupants.

An early work, but published posthumously, Northanger Abbey is a parody of the Gothic genre typified by the novels of Ann Radcliffe, as well as a witty comedy of manners in the style of Jane Austen's later novels and, ultimately, an enchanting love story.

Emma (Alma Classics Evergreens)

Emma is considered by many readers to be Jane Austen’s crowning achievement, a timeless comedy of manners that lays bare the limits on women’s autonomy in Regency England. The disparity between Emma Woodhouse’s self-confidence and self-knowledge, and her determination to arrange marriages for her friends while avoiding one for herself, leads to a painful series of misunderstandings for everyone who suffers from her well-meaning altruism – and with Mr Knightley being the only person of her acquaintance who has the good sense to challenge her, Emma must eventually recognize her match in every sense.

Long praised for its rich detail and perfect craftsmanship, Emma is one of those classic masterpieces that readers go back to again and again for its inexhaustible fund of humanity.

Pride And Prejudice: Penguin English Library

The new paperback series- Penguin English Library

'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes ... '

When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.

Mansfield Park (Alma Junior Classics)

Born into a poor family, Fanny Price is raised amid the daunting splendour of Mansfield Park by her rich uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram. Treated as an inferior by most of the family, Fanny forms a close attachment to her cousin Edmund, the only person to show her kindness. With the departure of her uncle to the West Indies and the arrival from London of the fashionable Henry and Mary Crawford, flirtation and romantic intrigue abound.

As Fanny becomes increasingly uncomfortable with the conduct of her companions, she finds herself isolated and forced to face the conflict between her sense of integrity and social expectation.

Penguin Readers Level 3: Persuasion

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.

Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.

The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.

Eight years ago, Anne Elliot decided that she could not marry Frederick Wentworth because he had no money. But when Anne's father decides to rent their home and move to Bath, Anne meets Frederick for a second time. Anne still loves him, but what are his feelings for her after all this time?

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Penguin Readers Level 4: Emma

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.

Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.

The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.

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Exclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock online resources including a digital book, audio edition, lesson plans and answer keys.

Emma Woodhouse is beautiful, clever and rich, and she has everything she wants. She does not want a husband for herself, but she loves match-making for her friends. But is Emma really as clever as she thinks? And what will she do when things start to go wrong?

Persuasion (Signature Editions)

Eight years ago, Anne Elliot followed the advice of Lady Russell, her only true friend, and broke off her engagement to the dashing young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. When Anne and the newly wealthy Captain Wentworth cross paths years later, it is clear that he has neither forgotten—nor forgiven—their past. Can true love survive heartbreak? Who should we listen to in matters of the heart? Filled with Jane Austen’s trademark wit and social commentary, Persuasion is a delightful romance and a surprisingly subversive exploration of our need to persuade, and to be persuaded by, others.

Penguin Readers Level 5: Sense And Sensibility

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.

Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.

The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.

Sense and Sensibility, a Level 5 Reader, is B1 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing present perfect continuous, past perfect, reported speech and second conditional. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.

Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are sisters. After the death of their father and losing their home and money, they have to move to a small cottage across the country. There, both their lives completely change.

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Pride and Prejudice (Alma Classics Evergreens)

The pride of high-ranking Mr Darcy and the prejudice of middle-class Elizabeth Bennet conduct an absorbing dance through the rigid social hierarchies of early-nineteenth-century England, with the passion of the two unlikely lovers growing as their union seems ever more improbable. ABOUT THE SERIES: Alma Evergreens is a series of popular classics. All the titles in the series are provided with an extensive critical apparatus, extra reading material including a section of photographs and notes. The texts are based on the most authoritative edition (or collated from the most authoritative editions or manuscripts) and edited using a fresh, intelligent editorial approach. With an emphasis on the production, editorial and typographical values of a book, Alma Classics aspires to revitalize the whole experience of reading the classics.

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‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.’

Austen's best-loved tale of love, marriage and society in class-conscious Georgian England still delights modern readers today with its comedy and characters. It follows the feisty, quick-witted Elizabeth Bennet as her parents seek to ensure good marriages for her and her sisters in order to secure their future. The protagonists Darcy and Elizabeth learn much about themselves and those around them and Austen's expertly crafted comedy characters of Mrs Bennet and Mr Collins demonstrate her great artistry as a writer.

'Why shouldn't we offer to take care of her? She could live with us at Mansfield.' In this way Mrs Norris persuades her sister, Lady Bertram, and Lady Bertram's husband, Sir Thomas, to ask their poor niece Fanny Price to live with them at Mansfield Park. At first Fanny is unhappy there. Then, after she makes friends with her young cousins, things improve. But what happens when the cousins are olde...

Sense and Sensibility (Collins Classics)

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'Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat.'

Spirited and impulsive, Marianne Dashwood is the complete opposite to her controlled and sensible sister, Elinor. When it comes to matters of the heart, Marianne is passionate and romantic and soon falls for the charming, but unreliable Mr Willoughby. Elinor, in contrast, copes stoically with the news that her love, Edward Ferrars is promised to another.

It is through their shared experiences of love that both sisters come to learn that the key to a successful match comes from finding the perfect mixture of rationality and feeling.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH

The Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers and Austen fans: Alexander McCall Smith, Lynne Truss, Amanda Vickery, Francesca Segal, P.D. James and Andrew Motion.

'The best-loved book by our best-loved novelist' Independent

Elizabeth Bennet is young, clever and attractive, but her mother is a nightmare and she and her four sisters are in dire need of financial security and escape in the shape of husbands. The arrival of the affable Mr Bingley and arrogant Mr Darcy in the neighbourhoos, both single and in possession of large fortunes, turns all their lives upside down in this witty drama of friendship, rivalry, enmity and love.

Sense And Sensibility (Vintage Classics Austen Series)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA SEGAL

The Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers and Austen fans: Alexander McCall Smith, Lynne Truss, Amanda Vickery, Francesca Segal, P.D. James and Andrew Motion.

'Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire' J. K. Rowling

Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from the other after they are they are forced by their father's death to leave their home and enter into the contests of polite society. The charms of unsuitable men and the schemes of rival ladies mean that their paths to success are thwart with disappointment but together they attempt to find a way to happiness.

Sense And Sensibility (Alma Classics Evergreens)

Sense and Sensibility is the story of the two Dashwood sisters, who embody the conflict between the oppressive nature of "civilized" society and the human desire for romantic passion. Elinor is cautious and unassuming about sentimental matters, while Marianne is wild and passionate, falling hopelessly in love with Mr. Willoughby. But the lessons in life and romance see the two characters develop and change, with sense and sensibility needing to be compromised as a matter of survival.

Austen's first published work, the novel has been read as an autobiographical reflection of her relationship with her own sister Cassandra. Against the backdrop of a fragile social context, Jane Austen creates a romantic masterpiece of raw and intense quality.