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Jane Austen
Jane Austen’s novels are among the most enduring works in the English language.
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Marianne Dashwood can't understand her sister. How could the attractive, witty, and charming Elinor fall for the quiet, self-effacing, and rather dull Edward Ferrars? And, if the two are in…
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Continuing the wildly successful Puffin in Bloom line of classics - illustrated by Anna Bond, the artist behind the renowned lifestyle brand Rifle Paper Co.
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Jane Austen is without question, one of England’s most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature’s most charismatic and believable…
Anne Elliot, twenty-seven and still single, seems destined for spinsterhood. In her youth, she broke off an engagement to penniless Captain Wentworth at the insistence of her friend Lady Russell…
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Rifle Paper Co. x Jane Austen classics in a beautiful gift set, just in time for the holidays!
Rifle Paper Co. x Jane Austen classics in a beautiful gift set…
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Enjoy this newly designed, collectible edition of the timeless love story full of wit and humor, Pride and Prejudice.
Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse delights in interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to…
Rory Muir
What happened when Jane Austen's heroines and heroes were finally wed?
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, rich - and fiercely independent - is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more…
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Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her acquaintances: rude, boorish John Thorpe, his flirtatious sister Isabella, who shares Catherine’s love…
Deborah Hopkinson
This gorgeous picture book biography of one of the most beloved writers of all time pays tribute to an independent thinker who turned ordinary life into extraordinary stories and created…
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This elegantly designed hardcover edition of The Complete Novels of Jane Austen features an introduction, providing the reader with enlightening information on Austen’s life and works.
Claire Saim
From the novels to the screen, from adaptions to filming secrets, dive into the world of Jane Austen. Discover her life, inspirations, correspondence and the incredible influence of her work…
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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…
Christine Kenyon Jones
"The first book to examine the curious and often overlooked ways in which the lives, interests, work and sense of humour of two of Britain's most celebrated writers - Jane…
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Catherine Morland is a young girl with a very active imagination. Her naivety and love of sensational novels lead her to approach the fashionable social scene in Bath and her…
Chris Washington
A bold and provocative analysis of Jane Austen as an early gender abolitionist
Chris Washington reads Jane Austen differently than we have classically understood her: rather than the doyen of…
Molly Williams
An elegantly illustrated celebration of Jane Austen's life and literature as told through the flowers, plants, and landscapes that inspired her.
Jane Austen's House
Published in partnership with Jane Austen's House, the idyllic country cottage where the beloved author lived and wrote all her novels, this chronologically arranged and beautifully illustrated book is a…
Rebecca Romney
From rare book dealer and guest star of the hit show Pawn Stars, a page-turning literary adventure that introduces readers to the women writers who inspired Jane Austen--and investigates why…
Kathryn Sutherland
A fascinating insight into the life of one of our best-loved authors through the biographies of objects that crossed her path in life and afterward.
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A gorgeous collection of the poetry of Jane Austen, voted all-time best writer, author of Pride & Prejudice and Emma
This elegant collector's edition presents Jane Austen's classic novel, Northanger Abbey, featuring gold cover embossing and gilded page-edges.
Northanger Abbey is the satirical account of a young girl's first excursion…
Enjoy Jane Austen's timeless classic,Emma, now available in this elegantly designed, luxe edition.
First Impressions- Indulge your inner romantic - a new Puffin Classics collection of Jane Austen novels
Left destitute after their father's death, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood must navigate love, marriage…
With a foreword by Ali Hazelwood, author of The Love Hypothesis and Love, Theoretically
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Foreword by Tessa Bailey, best-selling author of It Happened One Summer and Hook, Line…
With a foreword by Alexis Hall, author of Boyfriend Material and A Lady for…
Craving adventure, seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland leaps at the opportunity to step into the dizzying…
When Fanny Price is taken in by wealthy relatives, she finds herself abused, overlooked…
A novel of manners about the romantic pas de deux between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, two perfectly suited lovers who, at first, find each other insufferable. Despite Elizabeth's negative…
Jane Austen's beloved novel of romance in the Regency era has long been a reader favorite.
'If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.'
Jane Austen's Persuasion is now available in an exclusive collector's edition featuring a delicate laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping and ribbon marker, ideal for fiction lovers…
Emily Reed
Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey is now available in an exclusive collector’s edition featuring a delicate laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping and ribbon marker, ideal for fiction…
This stunning Oxford Children's Classic edition is the perfect introduction to Pride and Prejudice-the classic love story. Features an introduction by Malorie Blackman and other bonus material including insights for…
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…
Jane Austen's enduring classic of the Bennet sisters' quest for marriage, now with a creatively embroidered cover.
The beloved classic is now available in an affordable softcover edition featuring a striking cover and distinctive interior design elements, making it ideal for lovers of classic fiction, readers in…
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
The first edition text of the novel (dated 1818, but likely issued in late 1817), accompanied by Rae Greiner's revised and expanded explanatory footnotes. The…
Jane Austen's Persuasion (1818) is the author's most biting and ironic work. In the novel, Austen gives us a satisfying love story while also turning a critical gaze on the…
Hilary Davidson
Delves into the clothing of one of the world’s great authors, providing unique and intimate insight into her everyday life and material world