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Pub Date:6/9/2015 often profound on a deeper... $24.99 CAD $15.99 CAD 160 pages • Hardcover 272 pages • Paperback How to Read Poetry Like a Professor Complete JaneAusten Thomas C.Foster Anna Milbourne, Simona Bursi No literary form is as admired and feared as poetry. This beautifully illustrated book contains all seven of Jane Admired for its lengthy pedigree—a line of poets Austen’s novels, beautifully retold as stories for children. extending back to a time before recorded history—and a The retellings are true to Austen’s elegant phrasing and ubiquitous presence in virtually all cultures, poetry is also language, while reducing and simplifying the stories for a revered for its great beauty and the powerful emotions it young modern reader, and include quotations from the evokes. But the form has also instilled trepidation in its original text throughout. 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Pub Date: 11/12/2018 $19.99 CAD $31.95 CAD 224 pages • Paperback Hardcover Collins Classics – Emma Collins Classics – Persuasion Jane Austen Jane Austen HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of essential classics. best-loved, essentialclassics. ‘The real evils, indeed, of Emma’s situation were the ‘She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she power of having rather too much her own way, and a learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of disposition to think a little too well of herself…’ anunnatural beginning.’ 9780008182243 Beautiful, rich, self-assured and witty, Emma Woodhouse 9780008296476 Written at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Persuasion is a Pub Date: 5/24/2016 delights in matchmaking those around her, with no Pub Date: 7/31/2018 tale of love, heartache and the determination of one $9.99 CAD apparent care for her own romantic life. Taking young $9.99 CAD woman as she strives to reignite a lost love. 496 pages • B-format Harrie... 272 pages • B-format Anne Elliot is persu... Paperback Paperback Collins Classics – Sense and Sensibility Collins Classics – Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Jane Austen HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. essential classics. ‘I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy; ‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man but like every body else it must be in my own way.’ in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.’ When the Dashwood family are forced into more modest Elizabeth Bennet, full of vivacity and wit, lives a quiet 9780008195502 circumstances, sisters Marianne and Elinor also find 9780008195496 country existence with her four sisters. To the delight of Pub Date: 7/25/2017 themselves suddenly entangled in matters of the heart. PubDate: 7/4/2017 their mother, determined to find her daughters suitable $9.99 CAD Passionate and spirited, young Marianne falls for th... $9.99 CAD matches, the eligible Mr Darcy ... 368 pages • B-format 384 pages • B-format Paperback Paperback Northanger Abbey Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Jane Austen To coincide with the launch of The Austen Project this is a In Jane Austen’s acclaimed novel, heroine Elizabeth pocket-sized hardback collection of Jane Austen's timeless Bennett is the second of five unmarried daughters living novels - perfect for Austen fans everywhere. near London in the early 19th Century. When two eligible 'Northanger Abbey! These were thrilling words, and men—the fabulously wealthy Mr. Bingley and his all too wound up Catherine's feelings to the highest point of status-conscious friend Mr. Darcy—move into town, ecstasy.' Elizabeth immediately finds herself clashing with Darcy on 9780007517954 9780062870605 matters of manners, pedigree, morals, education, and Considered the most light-hearted and satirical of Austen's PubDate: 4/14/2014 Pub Date:9/4/2018 marriage. $14.99 CAD novels, Northanger Abbey tells the story of an unlikely $12.50 CAD 464 pages • Hardcover young... 416 pages • Paperback One of t... Sense & Sensibility Collins Classics – Sanditon Jane Austen Jane Austen Jane Austen's timeless novel with a new Introduction by Charlotte Heywood is smart, beautiful—and in search of a Joanna Trollope and featuring the opening chapters from husband. As ever, the road to matrimony is fraught with Joanna Trollope's own contemporary new novel Sense & trouble. Sensibility.Perfect for Jane Austen fans everywhere. This is Jane Austen’s final, unfinished novel. 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We shall be at Newcastle all the winter, and I dare say there will be some balls, and I will take care to get good This is Jane Austen’s final, unfinished novel. partners for them all." - Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 9780008325404 9780785230779 When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Pub Date: 11/19/2019 Pub Date: 10/29/2019 Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited. $9.99 CAD $36.99 CAD Darcy finds himself indifferent to Elizabeth Bennet's good 272 pages • B-format 464 pages • Hardcover ... Paperback Pride and Prejudice The Real Jane Austen Jane Austen, Lucy Toop Paula Byrne ‘She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me; This new biography explores the forces that shaped the and I am in no humour at present to give consequence to interior life of one of the most beloved novelists in the young ladies who are slighted by other men.’ Such is the English language: her father’s religious faith; her mother’s unpromising start to one of the most well-known aristocratic pedigree; her eldest brother’s adoption; her relationships in English literature. Can vivacious, intelligent, other brothers’ naval and military experiences; her but fortuneless Elizabeth Bennet and the wealthy, relatives in the East and West Indies; her cousin who lived 9780008325947 reserved and seemingly haughty Mr Darcy see past their 9780061999109 through the trauma of the French Revolution; the family’... Pub Date: 8/20/2019 first impress... Pub Date:1/7/2014 $5.99 CAD $21.00 CAD 464 pages • Trade 400 pages • Paperback Paperback The Real Jane Austen The Genius of Jane Austen Paula Byrne Paula Byrne Originally published by Bloomsbury The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things offers a Academic in 2003 as startlingly original look at the revered writer through a Jane Austen and the Theatre, Paula Byrne’s first book was variety of key moments, scenes, and objects in her life never made widely available in the U.S. and is out of print and work. Going beyond previous traditional biographies today. An exploration of Austen’s passion for the which have traced Austen’s daily life from Steventon to stage—she acted in amateur productions, frequently Bath to Chawton to Winchester, Byrne’s portrait attended the theatre, and even scripted several early 9780061999093 —organized thematically and drawn from the most 9780062674494 works in play form—it took a nuanced look at how PubDate: 1/29/2013 up-to-date scholarshipan... PubDate: 6/27/2017 powerfully her stories ... $36.99 CAD $21.00 CAD 400 pages • Hardcover 352 pages • Paperback Not Just Jane Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen Shelley DeWees Deborah Hopkinson, Qin Leng You’ve likely read at least one Jane Austen novel (or at It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is least seen a film one). Chances are you’ve also read Jane one of our greatest writers. Eyre; if you were an exceptionally moody teenager, you But before that, she was just an ordinary girl. might have even read Wuthering Heights. English majors might add George Eliot or Virginia Woolf to this list…but In fact, young Jane was a bit quiet and shy; if you had then the trail ends. Were there truly so few women writing met her back then, you might not have noticed her at all. 9780062394620 anything of note during late 18th and 19th century 9780062373304 But she would have noticed you. Jane watched and Pub Date: 10/25/2016 Britain... Pub Date: 1/23/2018 listened to all the things people around her did and said $19.99 CAD $21.99 CAD and locked those observations away for safeke..