Marriage: Vintage Minis

Author: Jane Austen

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  • : 9.99 NZD
  • : 9781784874056
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
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  • : February 2018
  • : 178mm X 110mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 9.99
  • : April 2018
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  • : Jane Austen
  • : Vintage Minis Ser.
  • : Paperback
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  • : English
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Description

Why do we set so much store by marriage? These excerpts from her novels show that Jane Austen was fascinated by this question, subjecting it to her forensic eye and wonderfully ironic wit again and again.

Author description

Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16 December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath, then to Southampton and finally to Chawton in Hampshire. She began writing Pride and Prejudice when she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called First Impressions and was initially rejected by the publishers and only published in 1813 after much revision. She published four of her novels in her lifetime, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Jane Austen died on 18th July 1817. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were both published posthumously in 1818.