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Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon

Arnaldo Ageno — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:45:03 +0000

Northanger Abbey is about the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her imagination, as tyrannical fathers and diabolical villains work their evil on forlorn heroines in isolated settings. What could be more remote from the uneventful securities of life in the midland counties of England? Yet as Austen brilliantly contrasts fiction with reality, ordinary life takes a more sinister turn, and edginess and circumspection are reaffirmed alongside comedy and literary burlesque.

Also including Austen’s other short fictions, Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon, this valuable new edition examines the ambitious and innovative works with which she inaugurated as well as closed her career.

Pride and Prejudice Orgoglio e pregiudizio (testo inglese a fronte)

Arnaldo Ageno — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 08:45:55 +0000

Orgoglio e pregiudizio è uno dei primi romanzi di Jane Austen. La scrittrice lo iniziò a ventun anni; il libro, rifiutato da un editore londinese, rimase in un cassetto fino alla sua pubblicazione anonima nel 1813, e da allora è considerato tra i più importanti romanzi della letteratura inglese. È la storia delle cinque sorelle Bennet e dei loro corteggiatori, con al centro il romantico contrasto tra l’adorabile e capricciosa Elizabeth e l’altezzoso Darcy; lo spirito di osservazione implacabile e quasi cinico, lo studio arguto dei caratteri, la satira delle vanità e delle debolezze della vita domestica, fanno di questo romanzo una delle più efficaci e indimenticabili commedie di costume del periodo Regency inglese.

Pride and Prejudice

Arnaldo Ageno — Tue, 31 May 2022 05:56:02 +0000

‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.’ Austen’s best-loved tale of love, marriage and society in class-conscious Georgian England still delights modern readers today with its comedy and characters. It follows the feisty, quick-witted Elizabeth Bennet as her parents seek to ensure good marriages for her and her sisters in order to secure their future.

The protagonists Darcy and Elizabeth learn much about themselves and those around them and Austen’s expertly crafted comedy characters of Mrs Bennet and Mr Collins demonstrate her great artistry as a writer.

Pride and Prejudice

Arnaldo Ageno — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 05:26:17 +0000

“He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.” Pride and Prejudice , one of the most famous love stories of all time, has also proven itself as a treasured mainstay of the English literary canon. With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr. and Mrs.Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out and upside down. Pride encounters prejudice, upward-mobility confronts social disdain, and quick-wittedness challenges sagacity. Misconceptions and hasty judgements bring heartache and scandal, but eventually lead to true understanding, self-knowledge, and love.
It’s almost impossible to open Pride and Prejudice without feeling the pressure of so many readers having known and loved this novel already. Will you fail the test – or will you love it too? As a story that celebrates more unflinchingly than any of Austen’s other novels the happy meeting-of-true-minds, and one that has attracted the most fans over the centuries, Pride and Prejudice sets up an echo chamber of good feelings in which romantic love and the love of reading amplify eachother.

Sanditon

Arnaldo Ageno — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 09:26:40 +0000

This edition includes an introduction, and notes and bibliography.
An Introduction that emphasizes what is experimental and new in Austen’s last work in comparison to her previous novels.
The text has been newly transcribed from the manuscript and draws upon the Oxford Edition of Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts, 5 vols. (OUP, 2018), which in turn is based on the digital edition of 2010; both edited by Kathryn Sutherland.
The text draws on Austen’s sister Cassandra Austen’s transcription for specific editorial features in order to make the work accessible to the general reader and to highlight the novel’s early history in family performance.
The edition has full notes, identifying and explaining literary allusions, references to diseases and contemporary medical treatments, Regency fashions, quasi-specialist language, etc.