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Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
255 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Austen scholar Deresiewicz turns to the author's novels to reveal the remarkable life lessons hidden within. With humor and candor, Deresiewicz employs his own experiences to demonstrate the enduring power of Austen's teachings.
Author
Series
Ladies of History volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
367 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
""Fans of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society will adore The Jane Austen Society... A charming and memorable debut, which reminds us of the universal language of literature and the power of books to unite and heal." -Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris Just after the Second World War, in the small English village of Chawton, an unusual but like-minded group of people...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fleeing from a broken engagement, Jane Austen has scarcely arrived in Scargrave when the local earl is felled by a mysterious ailment that is far too agonizing and fatal to be credited to his fondness for claret and pudding. The earl's widow asks Jane to investigate.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Vintage Books Edition.
Physical Desc
318 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this fascinating revelatory work, Helena Kelly looks past the grand houses, drawing-room dramas, and witty dialogue that have long been seen as hallmarks of Jane Austen's work to bring to light the serious, ambitious, subversive concerns of this beloved writer. Kelly illuminates the radical views--on such subjects as slavery, poverty, feminism, marriage, and the church-that Austen deftly and carefully explored in her six novels, at a time when...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four girls, and their mothers, continue their mother-daughter book club via videoconference between Massachusetts and England, reading Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," and try to put friendship before romance.
Author
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
268 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"As she approached the age of seventy, Ruth Wilson began to have recurring dreams about losing her voice. And as she grappled with feelings of unfathomable sadness, she made the radical decision to retreat from her conventional life with her husband to a small sunshine-yellow cottage in New South Wales, Australia where she lived alone for the following ten years. Ruth had fostered a lifelong love of reading, and from the moment she first encountered...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
""Jane Austen at Home offers a fascinating look at Jane Austen's world through the lens of the homes in which she lived and worked throughout her life. The result is a refreshingly unique perspective on Austen and her work and a beautifully nuanced exploration of gender, creativity, and domesticity." - Amanda Foreman, bestselling author of Georgianna, Duchess of Devonshire. On the eve of the two hundredth anniversary of Jane Austen's death, take a...
Author
Series
Jane Austen mystery volume 4
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney mysteries volume 1
A Mr. Darcy and Miss Tilney mystery volume 1
Mr. Darcy and Miss Tilney mysteries volume 1
A Mr. Darcy and Miss Tilney mystery volume 1
Mr. Darcy and Miss Tilney mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After many years of happy marriage, Emma Knightley and her husband are throwing a house party, bringing together distant relatives and new acquaintances-not all of whom are well known to the Knightleys but are certainly beloved by every Jane Austen fan: Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy, Marianne and Colonel Brandon, Anne and Captain Wentworth, and Fanny and Edmund Bertram. Very much not invited is Mr. Wickham, whose latest financial scheme has netted...
12) Debating Darcy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"A life-long speech competitor, Leela loves nothing more than crushing the competition, all while wearing a smile. But when she meets the incorrigible Firoze Darcy, a debater from an elitist private school, Leela can't stand him. Unfortunately, he'll be competing in the state league, so their paths are set to collide. But why attempt to tolerate Firoze when Leela can one-up him? The situation is more complicated than Leela anticipated, though, and...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The beautiful widow Susan Vernon has come to the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors about her dalliances circulating through polite society. Whilst there, she decides to secure a husband for herself and her rather reluctant débutante daughter, Frederica.
14) Persuasion
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On the verge of spinsterhood, twenty-seven-year-old Anne Elliot hopes for reconciliation when she encounters long-lost love Captain Frederick Wentworth, whom she rejected due to her family's objections.
15) Emma
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse loves playing matchmaker. When pretty and socially inferior Harriet arrives, Emma decides to indulge her passion. Against the advice of family friend and surrogate older brother Mr. Knightly, Emma persuades Harriet to reject a marriage proposal from a local farmer in order to hold out for an offer from the dashing Mr. Elton. But Emma soon discovers Mr. Elton's true motives and her advice to Harriet goes terribly...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"November, 1815. The Battle of Waterloo has come and gone, leaving the British economy in shreds; Henry Austen, high-flying banker extraordinaire, is about to declare bankruptcy dragging several of his brothers down with him. The crisis destroys Henry's health, and Jane flies to his London bedside, believing him to be dying. While she's there, the Reverend James Stanier Clarke, chaplain to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, invites Jane to tour...
Author
Publisher
Thunder Bay Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"This beautiful collection of more than 50 recipes inspired by the novels of Jane Austen brings readers a sumptuous array of dishes that capture all the spirit and verve of Austen's world and the Regency era, adapted and reimagined for the modern day"--
18) Austenland
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 97 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jane Hayes's adoration of all things Jane Austen is complicating her love life. Determined to be the heroine of her own story, Jane spends her life savings on a trip to Austenland, an eccentric Austen-inspired resort, where she meets two very different gentlemen, but has a difficult time determining where fantasy ends and real life, and maybe even love, begins.
Author
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
©2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"New York actress C.J. Welles, a die-hard Jane Austen fan, is on the verge of landing her dream role: portraying her idol in a Broadway play. But during her final audition, she is mysteriously transported to Bath, England, in the year 1801. And Georgian England, with its rigid and unforgiving social structure and limited hygienic facilities, is not quite the picturesque costume drama C.J. had always imagined."--Back cover.
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