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Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
William Deresiewicz reveals the life lessons he learned through readings of Jane Austen's novels, discussing the impact of "Emma" on his world view as a graduate student, and describing how "Pride and Prejudice," "Mansfield Park," "Persuasion," and "Sense and Sensibility," changed his friendships, views on love, and priorities.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Three books in one volume by the author beloved for her smart, witty novels of Regency England. This collection of Jane Austen's novels includes three timeless classics. Sense and Sensibility : Torn between reason and passion, obligation and impulse, two sisters search for love in eighteenth-century England. Mansfield Park : A shy young woman of modest means is sent to live with her wealthy relatives-and discovers her true power-in this poignant...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the prize-winning author of Mr. Timothy and The Pale Blue Eye comes Courting Mr. Lincoln, the page-turning and surprising story of a young Abraham Lincoln and the two people who loved him best: a young, marriageable Mary Todd and Lincoln's best friend, Joshua Speed. When sparky and independent Mary Todd arrives in Springfield, Illinois, in the 1840s to live with her sister, who is determined to find Mary a husband, she is astonished to find herself...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Three classics about love, class, and social expectations by one of the greatest English authors of the nineteenth century.
This collection of Jane Austen's novels includes three timeless classics.
Persuasion: A woman is pressured by her family to end her engagement to a man of modest means-then meets him again years later, when both of their circumstances have changed.
Northanger Abbey: A young woman besotted by gothic novels sees danger lurking...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"The Emmy Award-winning producer of PBS's Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! reveals the secrets to Downton Abbey, Sherlock, and its other hit programs. For more than twenty-five years and counting, Rebecca Eaton has presided over PBS's Masterpiece Theatre, the longest running weekly prime time drama series in American history. From the runaway hits Upstairs, Downstairs and The Buccaneers, to the hugely popular Inspector Morse, Prime Suspect, and Poirot,...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A deft analysis of sex, power, and the media in the Regency era describes how the scandalous private lives of the Georgian aristocracy were used to undermine hereditary powerThe potent allure of sex, money, and power has always created a public appetite for juicy tales of scandal in the hidden private lives of the English aristocracy. Millions of viewers are captivated by the television series Downton Abbey and screen versions of Jane Austen novels,...
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