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The World of Jane Austen Jigsaw Puzzle (1000 pieces)

John Mullan

The World of Jane Austen is a new 1000 piece puzzle, featuring a wide cast of Jane Austen's contemporaries and characters.

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Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

In Jane Austen’s first published novel, her portrait of two heroines’ parallel experiences of love, loss, and hope offers a powerful analysis of how women were shaped by the claustrophobic…

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What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved

John Mullan

From ‘Is there Sex Before Marriage in Austen?’ to ‘Which important Austen characters never speak?’ the Guardian Book Club columnist answers 21 apparently trivial questions that reveal deep and hidden…

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Matchmaking: The Jane Austen Memory Game

John Mullan

Match up Jane Austen's iconic characters with their romantic partners in this charming memory game

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What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved

Fellow John Mullan (Fitzwilliam College Cambridge)

Mullan shows that readers can best appreciate Austen’s brilliance by looking at the intriguing quirks and intricacies of her fiction. Asking and answering some very specific questions about what goes…

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Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

In Jane Austen’s first published novel, her portrait of two heroines’ parallel experiences of love, loss, and hope offers a powerful analysis of how women were shaped by the claustrophobic…

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Emma

Jane Austen,John Mullan

Emma is considered by many to be Austen’s finest and most representative novel. The story of Emma Woodhouse’s matchmaking, and her awakening to the true feelings of others as well…

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Northanger Abbey: Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditon

Jane Austen

Catherine Morland meets all the trappings of Gothic horror and imagines the worst. Disaster does eventually strike, as it does in the real world as distinct from the romantic one…

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Jane Austen

John Lauber

Lauber illuminates for general readers and students new to her work each of the six novels Austen (1775-1817) completed Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, and…

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Recreating Jane Austen

John Wiltshire (La Trobe University, Victoria)

Recreating Jane Austen is a book for readers who know and love Austen’s work. Stimulated by the recent crop of film and television versions of Austen’s novels, John Wiltshire examines…

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Recreating Jane Austen

John Wiltshire (La Trobe University, Victoria)

Recreating Jane Austen is a book for readers who know and love Austen’s work. Stimulated by the recent crop of film and television versions of Austen’s novels, John Wiltshire examines…

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The Hidden Jane Austen

John Wiltshire (La Trobe University, Victoria)

Through fascinating close readings of key passages in Jane Austen’s six major novels, John Wiltshire highlights Austen’s unique ability to penetrate the hidden inner motives and impulses of her characters…

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The Hidden Jane Austen

John Wiltshire (La Trobe University, Victoria)

Through fascinating close readings of key passages in Jane Austen’s six major novels, John Wiltshire highlights Austen’s unique ability to penetrate the hidden inner motives and impulses of her characters…

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Jane Austen’s Heroines (RLE Jane Austen): Intimacy in Human Relationships

John Philips Hardy

First published in 1984, John Hardy’s important interpretation of Jane Austen’s heroines breaks through the accepted tradition of viewing the author as merely a rational comedienne of manners. He argues…

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Jane Austen’s Heroines (RLE Jane Austen): Intimacy in Human Relationships

John Philips Hardy

First published in 1984, John Hardy’s important interpretation of Jane Austen’s heroines breaks through the accepted tradition of viewing the author as merely a rational comedienne of manners. He argues…

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Jane Austen: Introductions and Interventions

John Wiltshire

This volume brings together lively articles which have been reworked especially for this collection. John Wiltshire explores the key themes and issues that Austen’s novels raise for modern readers and…

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Jane Austen: Bicentenary Essays

John Halperin

This volume brings together nineteen essays that marked the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s birth and in doing so reflects the critical attitudes which some of the twentieth century’s most influential…

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Jane Austen’s Sailor Brothers

John Henry Hubback

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Jane Austen and the Body: ‘The Picture of Health

John Wiltshire

Jane Austen has been thought of as a novelist of manners whose work discreetly avoids discussing the physical. John Wiltshire shows, on the contrary, how important are bodies and faces…

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Jane Austen and the Body: ‘The Picture of Health

John Wiltshire

Jane Austen has been thought of as a novelist of manners whose work discreetly avoids discussing the physical. John Wiltshire shows, on the contrary, how important are bodies and faces…

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Life of Jane Austen [microform]

Goldwin 1823-1910 Smith

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public…

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Jane Austen’s Sailor Brothers

John Henry Hubback, Edith Charlotte Hubback

This fascinating book provides a glimpse into the world of Jane Austen's two sailor brothers, who served in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. Based on letters and other…

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In Pride of the Moment: Encounters in Jane Austen’s World

John A Dussinger

John A. Dussinger argues that the strength of Jane Austen’s writing is found in the minute encounters that reveal a character’s life rather than in the larger design of the…

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The Connell Guide To Jane Austen’s Emma

John Sutherland,Jolyon Connell

Through the innovative and wonderfully flexible use of free indirect speech, Austen enables us to see the world through Emma’s eyes and to understand her faults and share her delusions…

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Jane Austen’s Sailor Brothers: Being the Adventures of Sir Francis Austen … and … Charles Austen;

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Jane Austen and Mary Shelley and Their Sisters

Laura Dabundo

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Jane Austen and Mary Shelley and Their Sisters

Laura Dabundo

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The Cinematic Jane Austen: Essays on the Filmic Sensibility of the Novels

David Monaghan,Ariane Hudelet,John Wiltshire

The novels of Jane Austen are typified by their comedic power, often most powerfully demonstrated by the singular voice of their narrators. This work argues that despite the difficulties in…

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Jane Austen’s Sailor Brothers: Being the Adventures of Sir Francis Austen, G.C.B., Admiral of the Fleet and Rear-Admiral Charles Austen

John H. Hubback,Edith C. Hubback

Jane Austen’s brothers Francis and Charles made successful careers in the navy; her interest in and knowledge of naval matters is evident throughout her work, especially in Persuasion. This double…

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Mansfield Park

Jane Austen

In recent years, Mansfield Park has come to be regarded as Austen’s most controversial novel. This volume, first published in 2005, provides comprehensive notes, an introduction covering the context and…

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Mansfield Park

Jane Austen

In recent years, Mansfield Park has come to be regarded as Austen’s most controversial novel. This volume, first published in 2005, provides comprehensive notes, an introduction covering the context and…

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Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and…

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Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and…

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Mansfield Park

Jane Austen

Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and…

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Emma

Jane Austen

The Flame Tree Collectable Classics are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The…

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Persuasion

Jane Austen

Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and…

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Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen

Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and…

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Graphing Jane Austen: The Evolutionary Basis of Literary Meaning

J. Carroll,J. Gottschall,John A. Johnson,Daniel J. Kruger

This book helps to bridge the gap between science and literary scholarship. Building on findings in the evolutionary human sciences, the authors construct a model of human nature in order…

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Graphing Jane Austen: The Evolutionary Basis of Literary Meaning

J. Carroll,J. Gottschall,John A. Johnson,Daniel J. Kruger

This book helps to bridge the gap between science and literary scholarship. Building on findings in the evolutionary human sciences, the authors construct a model of human nature in order…

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So You Think You Know Jane Austen?: A Literary Quizbook

John Sutherland (former Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature, University College London),Deirdre Le Faye (Freelance author and editor)

Challenges the reader to discover just how well you really know your favourite author. Starting with easy, factual questions the quiz progresses to find out how much you know by…

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Emma: Mandarin Companion Graded Readers Level 1, Simplified Character Edition

Jane Austen

Clever, rich, and single, the An Mo (Emma Woodhouse) is focused on her career as fashion designer. When she tries to find a boyfriend for a new friend, her decisions…

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Emma: Mandarin Companion Graded Readers Level 1, Traditional Character Edition

Jane Austen

***Traditional Character Edition*** Clever, rich, and single, the An Mo (Emma Woodhouse) is focused on her career as fashion designer. When she tries to find a boyfriend for a new…

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Pride and Prejudice STUDY GUIDE: York Notes for GCSE (9-1): - everything you need to catch up, study and prepare for 2022 and 2023 assessments and exams

Paul Pascoe,Jane Austen,John Scicluna

This updated edition is designed to support students in study and revision for the new GCSE (9-1) English Literature exams.

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The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen 8 Volume Paperback Set

Jane Austen

The first fully annotated scholarly edition of Jane Austen’s complete works. Each volume features an extensive introduction covering the context and publication history of the work, full explanatory notes to…

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Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part IV, Volume 1: Henry James, Edith Wharton and Oscar Wilde by their Contemporaries

Ralph Pite,John Mullan,Janet Beer,Sarah Annes,Jane Spirit

Part of the Lives of Victorian Literary Figures series, this set collects contemporary memoirs, biographies and ephemera relating to Oscar Wilde, Henry James and Edith Wharton

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Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part IV, Volume 2: Henry James, Edith Wharton and Oscar Wilde by their Contemporaries

Ralph Pite,John Mullan,Janet Beer,Sarah Annes,Jane Spirit

Part of the Lives of Victorian Literary Figures series, this set collects contemporary memoirs, biographies and ephemera relating to Oscar Wilde, Henry James and Edith Wharton

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