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Simon & Schuster, May 2005
Enriched Classic Mass Market Paperback, 544 pages
ISBN-10: 1416500286
ISBN-13: 9781416500285
Description
ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED
BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP
A high-spirited young woman meddles in other peoples' love lives in this classic comedy of errors set in nineteenth-century England.
EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:
• A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
• A chronology of the author's life and work
• A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context
• An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations
• Detailed explanatory notes
• Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work
• Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction
• A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience
Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential.
SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON
Associated Content, October 13, 2011
..._ The name Jane Austen is now famous around the world. Millions of copies of her books have been sold, and successful movies have been produced from them. Unfortunately, Jane did not reach such ...
Abu Dhabi National, October 7, 2011
...It is a truth universally acknowledged that, despite their advancing years, Jane Austen's novels continue to dominate our literary consciousness. Sense and Sensibility may be celebrating its bicentennial this year, with Pride and Prejudice, ...
Chicago Daily Herald, October 3, 2011
...her most popular novel, Pride and Prejudice? You can do just that as part of A Year With Jane Austen, a series of Regency Teas kicking off Friday at the in Algonquin. Austen was born Dec. 16, 1775, and published all her books in the Regency ...
Guardian.co.uk, October 1, 2011
...not be sorry that caddish Mr Wickham has met a violent end, but now read on... Once again, Jane Austen's work is revealed as the national gift that goes on giving. The afterlife of Auden's "English spinster of the middle class" is perhaps ...
Devon 24, October 1, 2011
...though. The end comes out of the characters.” Rachel describes writing her book Perfect Happiness, a sequel to Jane Austen’s Emma, as a “joyous experience. “I think Jane Austen, who might have disapproved, was somewhere about saying ...
This is Local London, October 1, 2011
...GOVERNESSES have been exchanged for PAs and kept women given jobs as a romantic novelist brings Jane Austen into the 21st Century re-telling her classic love stories for modern readers. Her affixation with Austen has led Juliet Archer to ...
The Press NZ, September 24, 2011
...available? The simplest answer is that movies are remade all the time and the great 19th-century novelists - Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters especially - have proved to be an inexhaustible and almost foolproof resource. "What makes a ...
New York Observer, September 15, 2011
...asking them to reimagine the books in a contemporary setting.” We will withhold judgement (*sob*). Clueless (which put Emma in a contemporary setting without explicitly saying so) was a good movie, after all, although a movie adaptation ...
Telegraph, September 14, 2011
...For an author regularly described as the modern Jane Austen, it could not be more fitting. Joanna Trollope is to write a new version of Sense and Sensibility, bringing the classic novel into the 21st century. The best-selling author ...
Guardian.co.uk, September 13, 2011
...The Rector's Wife plans modern-day 'conversation' with Sense and Sensibility From Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy to Emma Woodhouse and Mr Knightley, Jane Austen created some of the most enduring romances in literary history. Now, publisher ...
Bath Chronicle, September 9, 2011
...Jane Austen is considered by many as a jewel in the canon of English literature. Her works have been, and continue to be, adored, taught and scrutinised around the world. The ...
Guardian.co.uk, January 1, 2010
...in black, black-gloved, and buttoned to the chin". Mr Shepherd Sir Walter Elliot's "civil, cautious lawyer" in Jane Austen's Persuasion lives off the takings from his employer. Expert at saying whatever will flatter the spendthrift baronet ...
Concord Monitor, December 28, 2009
...Life and Legacy held at the Morgan Library in New York City through March 10. I lived with Jane Austen for nearly 40 years without ever reading her books. Every time PBS or Hollywood resurrected the Bennet sisters or Emma Woodhouse or ...
Concord Monitor, December 28, 2009
...Letter to editor I lived with Jane Austen for nearly 40 years without ever reading her books. Every time PBS or Hollywood resurrected the Bennet sisters or Emma Woodhouse or Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, my wife had ...
Telegraph, December 1, 2009
...Jane Austen probably died of tuberculosis after drinking unpasteurised milk rather than falling victim to a rare hormonal disorder as is generally assumed, research shows. The Pride and Prejudice novelist's ...
Guardian.co.uk, November 30, 2009
...TB caught from cows • Author's demise at 41 has fascinated experts In her beguiling comic plots, Jane Austen often ridicules characters who fuss excessively about the state of their health. The 19th-century novelist would therefore be ...
Suite101.com, November 25, 2009
...Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, etc. © M.L. Costa Six novels with six different stories and several heroines, but do you remember who's who and what's what? Famed among female authors ...
Ormskirk and Skelmersdale Advertiser, November 12, 2009
...with imaginative events and workshops for reading and writing fans of all ages. Theatre Tours International will bring Jane Austen’s work to life at Crosby Civic Hall on Friday, November 13. A selection of most rewarding and exciting ...
Seattle Times, October 28, 2009
...Theater review: Book-It's production of "Emma" is well-cast, and its story well-condensed, writes Misha Berson. Seattle Times theater critic PREV of NEXT ADAM SMITH Sylvie Davidson plays the title character in Book-It Repertory Theatre's ...
Broadway World, October 13, 2009
...Whether you are landed gentry, a common farmer, or a young lady with no parents or prospects, Miss Emma Woodhouse of Highbury will be sure to put you in your place-matrimonially or otherwise. Jane Austen's Emma plays on Book-It Repertory ...
Philly.com, October 8, 2009
...Jane Austen, as was once said of John Wayne, reverses the laws of optics. The further away she gets, the larger she becomes. In the two centuries since her death, the ...
KM Extra, September 30, 2009
...Familiar backdrop to new Jane Austen adaptation Viewers of the BBC's new adaptaion of Emma on Sunday might spot a few familiar landmarks as they watch. It only took programme makers one visit to ...
Telegraph, September 22, 2009
...disappointed about what gets left out. Sir Michael is to appear in a new four-part BBC version of Jane Austen's novel Emma, and said the author's work had also passed him by. "I didn't know Jane Austen nor had I read the books," he said ...
Times Online, September 2, 2009
...$25.95). 978 0 670 91565 1 Bharat Tandon teaches at St Anne?s College, Oxford. His book Jane Austen and the Morality of Conversation was published in 2003. He is completing a new edition of Emma and has written the chapter on Henry Green for ...
TheCelebrityCafe.com, August 20, 2009
...Home: Book Reviews : Classic Fiction : Emma Emma?s penchant for matchmaking keeps her and her friends in perpetual trouble. Jane Austen?s ?Emma? is a wonderful blend of humorous blunders, quirky characters and her trademark romance ...
Christian Science Monitor, July 18, 2009
...I climbed out of the car. I had come to England on a mission, to learn more about Jane Austen?s life and books by visiting the places where she lived and wrote. This tiny village in Hampshire marked the beginning of my quest, for it was here ...
The Australian, June 19, 2009
...WHEN Jane Austen died in 1817 at 41, her brothers were the only mourners at her funeral. About this time, British publisher John Murray managed to sell only 30 first edition copies ...
Dayton Daily News, June 17, 2009
...about her visit to the Dayton area: ?Juliet Archer, an English author who is bringing all six of Jane Austen?s completed novels into the 21st century, will be signing copies of her debut novel at Borders, Dayton Mall, on Saturday, 20th June, ...
Wales Online, May 16, 2009
...toured the UK. TAG, his first novel, was completed as part of an online MA Creative Writing programme. JANE AUSTEN said of Emma that she feared she had created a character that no-one would like. I felt a bit the same with my narrator ...
Chicago Tribune, April 18, 2009
...lying on a scratchy blanket, naked, and probably resembling a small harpoonable whale. With winks and nods to 'Emma,' 'Madame Bovary,' 'Brideshead Revisited,' to name just a few, Hamilton celebrates the romantic novel while gleefully ...
The Appalachian Online, April 8, 2009
...of this overestimation of merit is the new book ?Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,? by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen. As somebody who has a profound respect for both the zombie community and Ms. Austen?s style, I thought the combination ...
St. Petersburg Times, April 4, 2009
...In literary circles, one of the most lamented losses is Jane Austen's correspondence. After her death in 1817, Austen's relatives burned many of her letters, apparently to protect her reputation from what they would have called vulgar ...
SermonAudio.com via, April 3, 2009
...creativity and evolution, on to 'The Colbert Report.' Dutton was explaining why our love of string quartets and Jane Austen began hundreds of thousands of years ago in the Pleistocene epoch when Colbert cut in: 'How many cavemen were reading ...
NPR, March 30, 2009
...in want of a publhing contract well adved to rip off excuse me expand upon anything written by Jane Austen. The latest book to join the ranks of the Austen embellhers, publhed April 1, titled by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith, and it's ...
Irish Independent, March 29, 2009
...easy -- she tells the story from the perspective of a heroine who is initially utterly self-deluded (like Jane Austen's Emma) while managing to keep the reader informed of reality. More importantly, the reader never loses sympathy with the ...
Telegraph, March 27, 2009
...Frances Wilson lauds Jane's Fame by Claire Harman, a witty account of the afterlife of Jane Austen's six great novels 'I write only for fame, joked Jane Austen in 1796, before any of her six novels had been published. Dr Johnson, for whom no ...
Blogcritics.org, March 22, 2009
...back cover - not to mention the title - that this wasn't going to be your typical Jane Austen book. Having read most of the follow-ups, retellings and modern day setting Austen novels, I was excited to find a book that went at Austen from a ...
Welwyn and Hatfield Times, March 12, 2009
...chatting to BBC Three Counties presenter Lorna Milton at 4pm about her debut novel, The Importance of Being Emma. A modern retelling of Jane Austen's Emma, it is published by Choc Lit and is the first book in Juliet's series Jane Austen in ...
The Scotsman, February 27, 2009
...Emma HEARTBREAK Productions bring a brand new adaptation (complete with live music, dance and audience interaction) of Jane Austen's Regency classic Musselburgh's Brunton Theatre on Wednesday. The familiar story ...
Globe and Mail, January 24, 2009
...Jane Austen fans, it's time to widen your horizons. Austen's novels and her life story have inspired almost 30 movies and miniseries in the past two decades, and many ...
Library Journal, January 16, 2009
...Mary Shelley, and more, but few have been spun off as relentlessly as the Queen of Regency romance, Jane Austen. The first Austen sequel, Sybil Brintons Old Friends and New Fancies, appeared in 1913. Since then, the spin-offs have come in a ...
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Mansfield ParkIn Mansfield Park, the Bertram family’s social and private worlds are revealed through the eyes of Fanny Price, a poor relation residing with...Read More
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PersuasionCentering on Anne Elliot, Austen's Persuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, and a story of missed opportunities and second chances.Read More -
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