El Sr. Parker, el hombre más reconocido de un pequeño pueblo costero llamado Sanditon, sufre un accidente lejos de su casa y la familia Heywood le acoge a él y a su esposa. Después de trazar una fuerte y hermosa amistad, la familia Parker se llevan con ellos a Sanditon a la hija mayor de la familia Heywood, Charlotte...
Secuela de Orgullo y prejuicio. Una versión sobre cómo continúa la vida de los pintorescos personajes creados por Jane Austen una vez que Jane y Elizabeth se casan. El centro de esta novela es el amor, ambientada en 1900 junto a los avances científicos de la época, el cambio del rol de la mujer en la sociedad y...
William Darcy, un reconocido arquitecto inglés, viaja a Londres por negocios. Bastante confuso despierta una calurosa mañana de julio de 2017 en su departamento de Oxford Street. Sentía ruidos atípicos, todo parecía andar muy rápido, tenía la sensación de estar en otra época y se resistía a despertar. Fina...
«Con la llegada del rico y apuesto Mr. Darcy a su región, las vidas de los Bennet y sus cinco hijas se vuelven del revés. El orgullo y la distancia social, la astucia y la hipocresía, los malentendidos y los juicios apresurados abocan a sus personajes al escándalo y al dolor, pero también a la comprensión, el conocimi...
Sentido y sensibilidad es una obra de origen británico, publicada en 1811 y escrita por Jane Austen. Es la obra prima de la escritora, publicada con el seudónimo de A Lady. Su éxito logró que fuera llevada al cine. El tema central parte del seno de la familia Dashwood, donde al morir el padre las dos hermanas Daswood...
Fanny Price is a young girl from a large and relatively poor family, who is taken from them at age 10 to be raised by her rich uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas, a baronet, and Lady Bertram, of Mansfield Park. She had previously lived with her own parents, Lieut. Price and his wife, Frances (Fanny), Lady Bertram's sister. Sh...
The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertf...
Emma Woodhouse, aged 20 at the start of the novel, is a young, beautiful, witty, and privileged woman in Regency England. She lives on the fictional estate of Hartfield in Surrey in the village of Highbury with her elderly widowed father, a hypochondriac who is excessively concerned for the health and safety of his lo...
Northanger Abbey follows seventeen-year-old Gothic novel aficionado Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath. It is Catherine's first visit there. She meets new friends, such as Isabella Thorpe, and goes to balls. Catherine finds herself pursued by Isabella's brother, the rough-manner...
Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England between 1792 and 1797, and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a meagre cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak.
Lady Susan Vernon, a beautiful and charming recent widow, visits her brother- and sister-in-law, Charles and Catherine Vernon, with little advance notice at Churchill, their country residence. Catherine is far from pleased, as Lady Susan had tried to prevent her marriage to Charles and her unwanted guest has been desc...
More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. He was clever, confident, and ambitious, but poor and with no particular family connections to recommend him. Sir Wa...
