Summary: Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne was persuaded to break off her engagement. Eight years later, Anne has lived to regret her decision. She never stopped loving Wentworth, and when he returns from sea with rank and fortune, she can only watch as every eligible...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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Summary: As a young, beautiful, and wealthy woman, Emma decides to introduce Harriet Smith to society to find a husband. Emma entangles herself in a web in which everythings ends up precisely as it began.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos AudioBooks 2006
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Summary: Persuasion: "Anne Elliot is a young woman of perfect breeding and unwavering integrity. Austen wrote of her, 'She is almost too good for me.' Persuasion is the story of Anne and Captain Wentworth and their long awaited union. The world of country gentry in Regency England serves as a setting while portraying the many aspects of proper society - its failings and humor"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1996
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Summary: "Have your book and eat it, too, with this clever edition of a classic novel, featuring delicious recipes from celebrity chefs. In this edition of Jane Austen's regency classic Pride and Prejudice, plan a fancy tea party or book club gathering with recipes for sweet confections and pastries. From maple glazed scones and delicate sugar and spice cake, to berry tartlets and French macaroons....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2018
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Summary: Persuasion is an umbrella term of influence. Persuasion can attempt to influence a person's beliefs, attitudes, intentions, motivations, or behaviors. In business, persuasion is a process aimed at changing a person's (or a group's) attitude or behavior toward some event, idea, object, or other person(s), by using written or spoken words to convey information, feelings, or reasoning, or a...
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Summary: Human foibles and early nineteenth-century manners are satirized in this romantic tale of English country family life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover 1995
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Summary: Much has been said of the light and sparkling side of Pride and Prejudice -- the delicious social comedy, the unerring dialogue, the satisfying love stories and its enchanting and spirited heroine. None the less, the novel is also about deeper issues in which Jane Austen demonstrates her belief that the truly civilized being maintains a proper balance between reason and energy. As Tony Tanner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Classics 2008
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Summary: Elizabeth Bennett's early determination to dislike Mr. Darcy is a prejudice only matched by his arrogant pride.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble Classics 2003
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Summary: The story centres on the personalities of the two sisters, whose contrasting temperaments are examined as they undergo comparable experiences in the loss of the men they love, it rejoices also in a wealth of minor characters such as the comic Mrs Jennings and Sir John and Lady Middleton, drawn with consummate satiric skill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2003
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Summary: Genteel dinner parties at a stately manor and romantic walks through luxuriant Devonshire draw two attractive sisters into the manipulations of landed gentry determined to marry well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2006
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Summary: Presents a romantic fictional account of Emma Woodhouse, a clever and rich young woman with a comfortable home and a happy disposition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1987
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Summary: Clever, pretty, and rich, at twenty-one, Emma is content to be companion to her father. The making of a successful match for her beloved governess leads Emma to more matchmaking with surprising results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charnwood 1985
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1988
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Summary: In this classic novel full of spirit and wit, Jane Austen introduces the delightfully gullible Catherine Morland. Catherine arrives into eighteenth century Bath society bursting with freshness, integrity and a passion for wildly fantastic and macabre Gothic novels. When Henry Tilney invites her to his ancestral home, Northanger Abbey, Catherine sees a mystery unfold before her very eyes. With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charnwood 1995
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Summary: In Persuasion, her last novel, Jane Austen reveals her most mature dissection of people, place and social setting. Like the earlier works Persuasion is a tale of love and marriage, told with the irony, insight and just evaluation of human conduct which sets her novels apart. But the heroine - like the author - is more mature; the tone of the writing more sombre. Anne Elliot and Captain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1984
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Summary: The romance between Captain Wentworth and Anne, the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, is doomed because of the young man's family connections and lack of wealth, until he makes his fortune at sea and returns to claim her as his wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2011
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Summary: Alternately enchanted and affronted by the haughty, opinionated Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth Bennet suspends her usual, more rational judgment concerning him, putting her chance for romance in jeopardy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2000
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Summary: Set in England in the early 19th century, Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet's five unmarried daughters after the rich and eligible Mr. Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr. Darcy, have moved into their neighborhood. When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr. Darcy she is repelled by his overbearing pride, and prejudice towards her family. But the Bennet girls are in need of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beauty Panic Press 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble Books 1993
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Summary: Miss Fanny Price, the poor relation of a wealthy family, possesses only natural goodness to aid her against a witty and lovely rival as they compete for the man they both love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1995
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Summary: Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2008
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Summary: Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne was persuaded to break off her engagement. Eight years later, Anne has lived to regret her decision. She never stopped loving Wentworth, and when he returns from sea with rank and fortune, she can only watch as every eligible...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2004