Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society.In Mansfield Park Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.
Jane Austen - Persuasion
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Persuasion was written between August, 1815 and August, 1816. During this time, Jane Austen began to suffer from the illness which would, in July of 1817 and at the age of 42, take her life. She did not live to see its publication, which occurred in the year following her death.
Persuasion and
Northanger Abbey were published together by Miss Austen's brother, Henry Austen, who had long been a champion of his sister's work. It was he who chose the title for this novel, and unfortunately, we can never know what Jane herself might have named it.
While she had published anonymously during her lifetime, Henry was always eager to let everyone know of the talents of his beloved sister. In publishing these last two of her novels, Henry wished the world to know the identity of the author of
Pride and Prejudice,
Sense and Sensibility,
Mansfield Park, and
Emma. He therefore wrote an introduction to the novels, telling of her authorship, her life, and her too-early death. The "Biographical Notice of the Author" is a touching memorial to the love of a brother for his sister and shows the respect and regard that he held for her. Chapter descriptions are designed to be very vague and cryptic. They are for people who are familiar with the book to help them find the chapter they want, and they are not designed for the student who might be looking for a quick way to get out of reading the novel.
Jane Austen - Sense and sensibility Penguin readers. Level 3 Адаптированный текст (нераспознанный PDF) и аудиозапись (оцифрована с кассеты). Более низкий уровень (pre-intermediate 1200 words), чем ранее выложенная аудиокнига от компании McGraw-Hill (уровень Upper-Intermediate).
Jane Austen "Pride and Prejudice" Адаптированный роман Джейн Остен "Гордость и предубеждение". Level 5 Intermediate = Council of Europe level B2 Книга распознана, очень хорошего качества! Аудио прилагается.
