Forfatter fødeår: 1775-1817
´It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.` So opens Jane Austen´s second novel Pride and Prejudice, which... Læs mere
Tucked away in a museum, lies the original notebooks of a teenage Jane Austen. Within the pages can be found the early writings of a girl who would go on to... Læs mere
Jane Austens roman handler om Fanny Price der kommer til verden i et fattigt hjem med for mange børn. Da hendes mor er af adelig afstamning, bliver hun sendt til sine rige slægtninge på... Læs mere
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (på dansk: Stolthed og fordom) er vel nok en af de mest læste romaner i verden - her er den i den originale engelske udgave.
Jane Austens EMMA er også værd at stifte bekendtskab med - her er den i original engelsk udgave med illustrationer af Hugh Thomson.
NORTHANGER ABBEY er en satirisk skildring af en ung pige og hendes fascination af den såkaldte gotiske litteratur. Catherine Morland er en almindelig ung pige med hang til drømme om... Læs mere
Lille brevroman i den kendte Austen-stil.
Sense and Sensibility (1811) was Jane Austen´s first published novel. When their father dies the Dashwood sisters and their mother find themselves destitute and soon, under the... Læs mere
"All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone." Twenty-seven-year-old Anne... Læs mere
Filled with macabre mansions, things that go bump in the night and a healthy dose of farce, ‘Northanger Abbey’ is Jane Austen’s first novel and a satirical parody of the Gothic... Læs mere
Jane Austen famously wrote: "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like."Emma Woodhouse is perhaps Jane Austen’s most seductive and complicated character, filled with... Læs mere
Mr Darcy and Miss Bennet may be one of the most cherished love stories in English literature, but did you know, Fanny Price was Austen’s favourite? She’s also one of literature’s biggest... Læs mere