author - "Jane Austen"
Bennet," as she entered the room, "we have had a most delightful evening, a most excellent ball. I wish you had been there. Jane was so admired, nothing could be like it. Everybody said how well she looked; and Mr. Bingley thought her quite beautiful, and danced with her twice! Only think of that, my dear; he actually danced with her twice! and she was the only creature in the room that he asked a second time. First of all, he asked Miss Lucas. I was so vexed to see him stand up with
Description At the age of 10, Fanny Price, the daughter of a poor Portsmouth family, is sent to live with her wealthy uncle’s family, the Bertrams, at the country estate of Mansfield Park. The Bertrams treat her cruelly at first, and Fanny has trouble fitting in. Her female cousins, Maria and Julia, are fashionable and vapid, and her elder male cousin, Tom, is a drunk. The only family member she feels a connection to is the younger Edmund, who is preparing for life in the clergy. When her uncle
A poor child is raised by her rich cousins, but never quite treated equally by the family. Read more of the classic Jane Austen novel here.
Forced to reject her true love because he was not a good match for her, Anne Elliot encounters him years later still as a single woman. This is the last completed novel by Jane Austen, published in 1816, a year before she died.
This was Jane Austen's first novel and follows the lives of two sisters as they find love and happiness after a forced move.
Bennet," as she entered the room, "we have had a most delightful evening, a most excellent ball. I wish you had been there. Jane was so admired, nothing could be like it. Everybody said how well she looked; and Mr. Bingley thought her quite beautiful, and danced with her twice! Only think of that, my dear; he actually danced with her twice! and she was the only creature in the room that he asked a second time. First of all, he asked Miss Lucas. I was so vexed to see him stand up with
Description At the age of 10, Fanny Price, the daughter of a poor Portsmouth family, is sent to live with her wealthy uncle’s family, the Bertrams, at the country estate of Mansfield Park. The Bertrams treat her cruelly at first, and Fanny has trouble fitting in. Her female cousins, Maria and Julia, are fashionable and vapid, and her elder male cousin, Tom, is a drunk. The only family member she feels a connection to is the younger Edmund, who is preparing for life in the clergy. When her uncle
A poor child is raised by her rich cousins, but never quite treated equally by the family. Read more of the classic Jane Austen novel here.
Forced to reject her true love because he was not a good match for her, Anne Elliot encounters him years later still as a single woman. This is the last completed novel by Jane Austen, published in 1816, a year before she died.
This was Jane Austen's first novel and follows the lives of two sisters as they find love and happiness after a forced move.