Exploring Jane Austen

Jane Austen

Jane Austen's Novels

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Emma by Jane Austen

Emma tries to impose her match making ideas on everyone and finds that sometimes she should desist.

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Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Sensible, wise, but impoverished Fanny Price goes to live with her wealthy cousins, and throughout many trials of their upper-middle-class life, she remains true to her beliefs.

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Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

As Catherine Moreland begins to mature, many of her illusions collapse under the reality of middle-class life.

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Persuasion by Jane Austen

The story of Anne Elliot and the love she once had for a naval officer. She had been persuaded by her family that he was not suitable, and regretfully, she lets him slip away. Years later, they meet again.

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Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen

Wealthy Mr. Darcy and spirited Elizabeth Bennett dislike each other at first sight, and each must contend with their pride and prejudices while Elizabeth's mother plots economically advantageous marriages for all her daughters.

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Sense and sensibility by Jane Austen

Two sisters, one practical and conventional and the other emotional and sentimental, find that only through compromise of their mutual differences can they get along.

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