Jane Austen
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"History of England..." is an (20 p.) historical satire produced by 16-year-old Jane Austen. It is a spoof on the history of the British monarchy from 1399 to 1649. What you find are brief, opinionated pieces, ranging from two sentences on Edward V who "lived so little a while that nobody had time to draw his picture" to 19 sentences on Elizabeth, of whom "It was the peculiar misfortune . . . to have had bad ministers --since wicked as she herself...
4) Longbourn
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A novel whose principal characters are the servants in Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice.
Sarah, the orphaned housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the laundry, polishing the floors, and emptying the chamber pots for the Bennet household. But there is just as much romance, heartbreak, and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is upstairs. When a mysterious new footman arrives, the orderly realm of the servants' hall threatens to be completely,...
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 9
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Oliver Bennet, trapped by societal expectations to live as female, discovers the possibility of love and freedom when he forms a connection with Darcy, but is faced with the choice of living a secure but inauthentic life or risking everything for true self-expression and love.
9) Persuasion
Series
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Anne Elliot is persuaded to break off an engagement to Capt. Wentworth, but tensions are resumed when they meet again eight years later.
10) Emma
Publisher
Distributed in the USA by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A young gentlewoman's matchmaking schemes for herself and others cause upheaval in her English village.
11) Persuasion
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
On the verge of spinsterhood, twenty-seven-year-old Anne Elliot hopes for reconciliation when she encounters long-lost love Captain Frederick Wentworth, whom she rejected due to her family's objections.
12) Mansfield Park
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Fanny Price goes to live with prosperous relatives at Mansfield Park and must navigate a labyrinth of intrigues and affairs among the occupants of the house.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The beautiful widow Susan Vernon has come to the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors about her dalliances circulating through polite society. Whilst there, she decides to secure a husband for herself and her rather reluctant debutante daughter, Frederica.
15) Sanditon
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A spirited young woman leaves behind her life at her rural home and moves to Sanditon, a fishing village looking to re-establish itself as a seaside resort town.
16) Emma
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c[1999]
Language
English
Description
Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new protegée, Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger. Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will find...