Catherine Morland, aged seventeen, is addicted to reading Gothic novels. She joins her wealthier neighbours on a trip to Bath to partake in the winter season of balls, and finds...

Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than...

From the age of eleven until she was eighteen, Jane Austen wrote her tales in three notebooks. The notebooks still exist – one in the Bodleian Library; the other two in the...

Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen...

Pride and prejudice, one of the most famous novels by Jane Austen, follows uneasy relationship between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, a landowning aristocrat who is too proud to...

Sense and Sensibility was the author’s first novel to be published, although not her first to be written and completed.The plot centres on the Dashwood sisters and their...

Veuf et père de trois filles, le baronnet Walter Elliot est ruiné. Il doit laisser sa propriété en location pour se retirer à Bath. Sa fille...

In questo romanzo, Jane Austen tratteggia per la prima volta una protagonista che viene descritta come bella, ricca e indipendente. Non ha problemi economici, è immune...

Una lettura nella lettura: è quella compiuta dalla protagonista di questo romanzo, il primo scritto da Jane Austen, che si intrufola di nascosto nell'antica dimora...

Il romanzo Orgoglio e pregiudizio scritto da Jane Austen nel 1813, ha come temi principali l'orgoglio di classe del signor Darcy e il pregiudizio di Elizabeth Bennet nei...