Un volume qui reunit deux chefs-d’?uvre de Jane Austen, par ordre chronologique de publication : Raison et Sentiments, Orgueil et Prejuges dans une magnifique edition illustree Deux chefs-d’?uvre de Jane Austen en un volume Raison et Sentiments : L’education sentimentale des s?urs Dashwood promet d’etre rude dans le petit monde etrique de la bourgeoisie du Devonshire. Publie en 1811, le premier grand roman anglais du XIXe siecle. Orgueil et Prejuges : Mr et Mrs Bennett ont cinq filles a marier. Quand un riche voisin arrive, ils esperent que l’une d’entre elles le seduira… Le chef-d’?uvre de Jane Austen n’a jamais cesse d’etre lu depuis 1813.

Elisabeth Bennet a quatre soeurs et une mere qui ne songe qu’a les marier. Quand parvient la nouvelle de l’installation a Netherfield, le domaine voisin, de Mr Bingley, celibataire et beau parti, toutes les dames des alentours sont en emoi, d’autant plus qu’il est accompagne de son ami Mr Darcy, un jeune et riche aristocrate. Les preparatifs du prochain bal occupent tous les esprits… Jane Austen peint avec ce qu’il faut d’ironie les turbulences du coeur des jeunes filles et, aujourd’hui comme hier, on s’indigne avec l’orgueilleuse Elisabeth, puis on ouvre les yeux sur les voies detournees qu’emprunte l’amour… Collection Classiques dirigee par Michel Zink et Michel Jarrety. Traduction, introduction, notes et dossier de Sophie Chiari.

« C’est une verite universellement reconnue qu’un celibataire pourvu d’une belle fortune doit etre en quete d’une epouse. » Elisabeth Bennet a quatre s?urs et une mere qui ne songe qu’a les marier. Quand parvient la nouvelle de l’installation a Netherfield, le domaine voisin, de Mr Bingley, celibataire et beau parti, toutes les dames des alentours sont en emoi, d’autant plus qu’il est accompagne de son ami Mr Darcy, un jeune et riche aristocrate. Les preparatifs du prochain bal occupent tous les esprits... Jane Austen peint avec ce qu’il faut d’ironie les turbulences du c?ur des jeunes filles et, aujourd’hui comme hier, on s’indigne avec l’orgueilleuse Elisabeth, puis on ouvre les yeux sur les voies detournees qu’emprunte l’amour.

De Jane Austen on sait peu de choses, les sources de renseignements etant rares. Les lettres qu’elle ecrivit a ses trois nieces preferees dressent un portrait emouvant de l'auteur d'Orgueil et prejuges et temoignent de son caractere vif et genereux. Restee celibataire et sans enfants, c’est avec l’affection d’une grande s?ur attentionnee qu’elle guide et conseille ses jeunes nieces. Elle leur parle d'ecriture, de strategie amoureuse, de sa vie a la campagne, avec l'humour et l'elegance qui font le sel de ses romans. Ces echanges revelent une touchante intimite, et l’on acquiert bien vite la conviction que Jane Austen n'avait rien a envier a ses attachantes heroines. Austen se montre tendre et enjouee. Ses lettres poursuivent l’exploration de la tension inepuisable entre « raison » et « sentiment », passion et conventions sociales. Un prolongement attachant de son univers romanesque. Emily Barnett, Les Inrockuptibles.

A la mort d’Henry Dashwood, sa femme et ses trois filles, injustement privees de leur heritage, sont contraintes de quitter leur Sussex natal pour s’installer dans le Devon, a Barton Cottage. Dans la petite societe locale, les demoiselles Dashwood ont tot fait de s’integrer. Elinor, l’ainee, cache derriere une reserve et une temperance a toute epreuve un amour profond et sincere pour Edward Ferrars, le frere de sa belle-s?ur. Marianne, nature passionnee et romanesque, tombe eperdument amoureuse du beau et impetueux John Willoughby, rencontre sous une pluie battante. Et quand des epreuves viendront chambouler leurs existences, les deux s?urs, aussi differentes qu’inseparables, decouvriront qu’elles ont chacune beaucoup a apprendre de l’autre… Dans ce grand classique de la litterature anglaise, c’est tout le talent de conteuse de Jane Austen qui se deploie, dans une langue tour a tour drole et incisive. Edition et traduction de Sophie Chiari.

This gorgeous collection of six hardback clothbound books features Jane Austen's most famous and beloved titles: Emma Persuasion Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility Northanger Abbey Mansfield Park Witty, vivid and eloquent, Jane Austen s delightful romance novels will paint a colourful portrait of the last chapter of the eighteenth century inside the reader s mind. With feisty, inspiring heroines and charming male characters, these love stories are far from being merely about love: they are ironic, often frustrating studies of the society the author was part of; they are lessons on women s rights and the importance of friendship and a loving marriage. Most of all, these love stories address issues of gender politics and class ranking that were rarely expressed in Jane Austen s time and were the beginning of a mindset revolution in her day. Each of these novels will dazzle readers in a different way and will prove how no one can write about love or relationships as Jane Austen did. It is a brilliant gift for Austen fans and lovers of classic English literature.

Jane Austen is one of the most enduring and skilled English novelists. Early Works remained unpublished during her lifetime even though the last one was completed before she was 17. With her wit, social perception and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, Jane Austen mesmerizes her readers as much today as she did when her famous novels were first published.

Jane Austen is one of the most enduring and skilled English novelists. Early Works remained unpublished during her lifetime even though the last one was completed before she was 17. With her wit, social perception and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, Jane Austen mesmerizes her readers as much today as she did when her famous novels were first published.

Jane Austen is one of the most enduring and skilled English novelists. Early Works remained unpublished during her lifetime even though the last one was completed before she was 17. With her wit, social perception and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, Jane Austen mesmerizes her readers as much today as she did when her famous novels were first published.

Jane Austen is one of the most enduring and skilled English novelists. Early Works remained unpublished during her lifetime even though the last one was completed before she was 17. With her wit, social perception and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, Jane Austen mesmerizes her readers as much today as she did when her famous novels were first published.

Orpheline de mere, seule avec un pere age en mauvaise sante, Emma Woodhouse, vingt et un ans, ressent une certaine solitude lorsque son ancienne gouvernante et amie quitte le domaine de Hartfield. Pour se distraire, la jeune femme s’improvise alors entremetteuse et decide de marier Harriet Smith, sa protegee, qu’elle destine au vicaire de Highbury. Mais son inexperience des c?urs et des etres, ainsi que celle de ses propres emotions amoureuses – qu'elle sait a peine comprendre ou interpreter – la meneront de surprises en desillusions. Ses strategies et ses manigances n’apportant pas, de toute evidence, les resultats escomptes, Emma apprendra a ses depens que l’amour et les sentiments ne se commandent pas… Publie anonymement en 1816, Emma, roman brillant devenu un classique de la litterature anglaise, depeint avec humour et une grande finesse psychologique le petit monde provincial dans lequel Jane Austen elle a elle-meme passe toute sa vie.

Jane is a young New York woman who can never seem to find the right man-perhaps because of her secret obsession with Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. When a wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-obsessed women, however, Jane's fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly become more real than she ever could have imagined. Is this total immersion in a fake Austenland enough to make Jane kick the Austen obsession for good, or could all her dreams actually culminate in a Mr. Darcy of her own? In this addictive, charming and compassionate story, Shannon Hale brings out the Jane Austen obsessive in all of us.

Jane Austen takes a satirical swipe at the gothic novel in this classic book bursting with sly subversive wit. 'Jane Austen is a genius, and Northanger Abbey is hugely underrated' Martin Amis 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 stay at nearby Northanger Abbey with preconceptions that have embarrassing and entertaining consequences.

Throughout her lifetime, Jane Austen wrote countless letters to her sister. But why did Cassandra burn them all? 1840: twenty three years after the death of her famous sister Jane, Cassandra Austen returns to the village of Kintbury, and the home of her family's friends, the Fowles. She knows that, in some dusty corner of the sprawling vicarage, there is a cache of family letters which hold secrets she can never allow to be revealed. As Cassandra recalls her youth and her relationship with her brilliant yet complex sister, she pieces together buried truths about Jane's history, and her own. And she faces a stark choice: should she act to protect Jane's reputation, or leave the contents of the letters to go unguarded into posterity? Based on a literary mystery that has long puzzled biographers and academics, Miss Austen is a wonderfully original and emotionally complex novel about the loves and lives of Cassandra and Jane Austen.

Throughout her lifetime, Jane Austen wrote countless letters to her sister. But why did Cassandra burn them all? 1840: twenty three years after the death of her famous sister Jane, Cassandra Austen returns to the village of Kintbury, and the home of her family's friends, the Fowles. She knows that, in some dusty corner of the sprawling vicarage, there is a cache of family letters which hold secrets she can never allow to be revealed. As Cassandra recalls her youth and her relationship with her brilliant yet complex sister, she pieces together buried truths about Jane's history, and her own. And she faces a stark choice: should she act to protect Jane's reputation, or leave the contents of the letters to go unguarded into posterity? Based on a literary mystery that has long puzzled biographers and academics, Miss Austen is a wonderfully original and emotionally complex novel about the loves and lives of Cassandra and Jane Austen.

Throughout her lifetime, Jane Austen wrote countless letters to her sister. But why did Cassandra burn them all? 1840: twenty three years after the death of her famous sister Jane, Cassandra Austen returns to the village of Kintbury, and the home of her family's friends, the Fowles. She knows that, in some dusty corner of the sprawling vicarage, there is a cache of family letters which hold secrets she can never allow to be revealed. As Cassandra recalls her youth and her relationship with her brilliant yet complex sister, she pieces together buried truths about Jane's history, and her own. And she faces a stark choice: should she act to protect Jane's reputation, or leave the contents of the letters to go unguarded into posterity? Based on a literary mystery that has long puzzled biographers and academics, Miss Austen is a wonderfully original and emotionally complex novel about the loves and lives of Cassandra and Jane Austen.