Summary: Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne was persuaded to break off her engagement. Eight years later, Anne has lived to regret her decision. She never stopped loving Wentworth, and when he returns from sea with rank and fortune, she can only watch as every eligible...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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Summary: Miss Fanny Price, the poor relation of a wealthy family, possesses only natural goodness to aid her against a witty and lovely rival as they compete for the man they both love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1995
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Summary: Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2008
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Summary: Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne was persuaded to break off her engagement. Eight years later, Anne has lived to regret her decision. She never stopped loving Wentworth, and when he returns from sea with rank and fortune, she can only watch as every eligible...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2004
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Summary: Human foibles and early nineteenth-century manners are satirized in this romantic tale of English country family life as Elizabeth Bennet and her four sisters are encouraged to marry well in order to keep the Bennet estate in their family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2009
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Summary: The classic story of class-conscious eighteenth-century England and the romance between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. The clash between opinionated Elizabeth and proud Mr. Darcy is set against a backdrop of wonderful minor characters and the social system in which they all live.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2008
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Summary: In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chatham River Press 1983
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Summary: As a young, beautiful, and wealthy woman, Emma decides to introduce Harriet Smith to society to find a husband. Emma entangles herself in a web in which everythings ends up precisely as it began.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos AudioBooks 2006
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Summary: Persuasion: "Anne Elliot is a young woman of perfect breeding and unwavering integrity. Austen wrote of her, 'She is almost too good for me.' Persuasion is the story of Anne and Captain Wentworth and their long awaited union. The world of country gentry in Regency England serves as a setting while portraying the many aspects of proper society - its failings and humor"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1996
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Summary: "Have your book and eat it, too, with this clever edition of a classic novel, featuring delicious recipes from celebrity chefs. In this edition of Jane Austen's regency classic Pride and Prejudice, plan a fancy tea party or book club gathering with recipes for sweet confections and pastries. From maple glazed scones and delicate sugar and spice cake, to berry tartlets and French macaroons....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2018
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Summary: Persuasion is an umbrella term of influence. Persuasion can attempt to influence a person's beliefs, attitudes, intentions, motivations, or behaviors. In business, persuasion is a process aimed at changing a person's (or a group's) attitude or behavior toward some event, idea, object, or other person(s), by using written or spoken words to convey information, feelings, or reasoning, or a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Human foibles and early nineteenth-century manners are satirized in this romantic tale of English country family life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover 1995
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Summary: Much has been said of the light and sparkling side of Pride and Prejudice -- the delicious social comedy, the unerring dialogue, the satisfying love stories and its enchanting and spirited heroine. None the less, the novel is also about deeper issues in which Jane Austen demonstrates her belief that the truly civilized being maintains a proper balance between reason and energy. As Tony Tanner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Classics 2008
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Summary: Elizabeth Bennett's early determination to dislike Mr. Darcy is a prejudice only matched by his arrogant pride.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble Classics 2003
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Summary: Genteel dinner parties at a stately manor and romantic walks through luxuriant Devonshire draw two attractive sisters into the manipulations of landed gentry determined to marry well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2006
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Summary: The story centres on the personalities of the two sisters, whose contrasting temperaments are examined as they undergo comparable experiences in the loss of the men they love, it rejoices also in a wealth of minor characters such as the comic Mrs Jennings and Sir John and Lady Middleton, drawn with consummate satiric skill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2003
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Summary: Austen was only twelve or thirteen when she wrote The Beautifull Cassandra, an irreverent and humorous little masterpiece. Weighing in at 465 occasionally misspelled words, it is a complete and perfect novel-in-miniature, made up of a dedication to her older sister Cassandra and twelve chapters, each consisting of a sentence or two. Narrating the slightly criminal adventures of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: Content with her life and not interested in marriage, Emma Woodhouse, a rich and beautiful heiress, causes complications with her matchmaking schemes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2009
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Summary: Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Splinter 2012
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Summary: In 19th century Bath, a girl bursting with freshness and a passion for macabre Gothic novels experiences intrigue, adventure, and romance, espeically when the romantic Henry Tilney invites her to his ancestral home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1982
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Summary: Persuasion is the story of the love between upper-class Anne Elliott and Captain Wentworth, who must earn his fortune. Set against the rarefied sensibilities of upper class England of Austen's day, the love story is both a satire upon class values and differences, and an engaging novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2001
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Summary: Social and romantic misunderstandings combine against the Bennet sisters in their pursuit of suitable romantic attachments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NAXOS AudioBooks 1996