Austen, Jane
Summary: Persuasion is the story of the love between upper-class Anne Elliott and Captain Wentworth, who must earn his fortune. Set against the rarefied sensibilities of upper class England of Austen's day, the love story is both a satire upon class values and differences, and an engaging novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2001
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Summary: "Sense and Sensibility (1811) marked the auspicious debut of a novelist identified only as 'A Lady.' Jane Austen's name has since become as familiar as Shakespeare's, and her tale of two sisters has lost none of its power to delight. Patricia Meyer Spacks guides readers to a deeper appreciation of the richness of Austen's delineation of her heroines, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, as they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Emma Woodhouse has all her life in a tight-knit Upper East Side neighborhood with very little to distress or vex her. When her matchmaking hobby results in her sister's marriage-- and all her friends traveling abroad-- she starts her final year of grad school grappling with an entirely new emotion: boredom. In Nadine, a wide-eyed Ohio transplant Emma not only sees a potential new friend but a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023