Showing 1-2 of 2
By: Austen, Jane
Price: ¥500.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1998
Seller ID: RWARE0000003134
Of all Jane Austen's heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. Pride and Prejudice's Liz zie Bennet has more wit and sparkle; Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey more imagination; and Sense and Sensibility's Elinor Dashwood certainly mo re sense--but Emma is lovable precisely because she is so imperfect. Austen only completed six novels in her lifetime, of which five feature young wom en whose chances for m... View more info
By: Austen, Jane
Price: ¥350.00
Publisher: Digireads.com: 2005
Seller ID: RWARE0000021911
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: Anne Elliot, heroine of Austen's last novel, did something we can all relate to: Long ago, she let the love of her life get away. In this case, she had allowed herself to be persuaded by a trusted family friend that the young man she loved wasn't an adequate match, social stationwise, and that Anne could do better. The novel opens some seven years after Anne sent her beau packing, and she's still alone. But then the guy sh... View more info