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Author
Series
Jane Austen mystery volume 8th
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
292 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In July 1809, Jane Austen finds solace in her grief over her lost love, Lord Harold Trowbridge, in a new cottage in Chawton, Hampshire, but her peace of mind is fleeting when the corpse of a murder victim is found in the cellar.
Author
Series
Jane Austen mystery volume 5th
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
viii, 277 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The horrifying mutilation murder of a young servant girl from a nearby estate draws author-turned-sleuth Jane Austen into a mystery that could lead her into a perilous search for a madman.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of 18th-century drawing-room intrigues.
Author
Publisher
Miramax Books/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 192 p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of the classic author's most famous quotes features selections that have remained relevant since the late 1700s, in a volume that is organized under such headings as family, love, and marriage.
9) Amanda
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
457 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Amanda: A Contemporary Retelling of Emma. A bit of a busybody, Amanda always has her friends' best interests at heart. She prides herself on her matchmaking skills . . . but when nothing seems to be going according to plan on the beautiful island of Tasmania, can she learn to listen to her own heart?
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"May 1816: Jane Austen is feeling unwell, with an uneasy stomach, constant fatigue, rashes, fevers and aches. She attributes her poor condition to the stress of family burdens, which even the drafting of her latest manuscript-about a baronet's daughter nursing a broken heart for a daring naval captain-cannot alleviate. Her apothecary recommends a trial of the curative waters at Cheltenham Spa, in Gloucestershire. Jane decides to use some of the profits...
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan Company
Pub. Date
1906
Physical Desc
ix, 364 p. : front. (port.) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Published in 1870, this was the first full-length biography of Jane Austen. Written by her nephew, it is filled with loving family remembrances as well as details of social and domestic life in rural England. Austen-Leigh's biography is the most influential source on Austen scholarship outside of Austen's own writings.
Author
Publisher
Morgan Reynolds
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
144 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of Jane Austen whose novels of social interaction and relationships are as relevant today as when she wrote them at the dawn of the nineteenth century.
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
288p. 23cm.
Language
English
Description
A sublime comedy of contemporary manners, this is the novel Jane Austen might well have written had she lived in twenty-first- century California.
Nothing ever moves in a straight line in Karen Joy Fowler's fiction, and in her latest, the complex dance of modern love has never been so devious or so much fun. Six Californians join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements...
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Born in the late 1700s, Jane Austen was a smart, creative girl in a house full of boys, all of whom could aspire to accomplish many things as adults while girls were raised primarily to become good wives. Jane didn t have much opportunity to go to school but she read everything she could, including all the books in her father s study.
Author
Language
English
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...
20) Mary B: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
436 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The overlooked middle sister in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice casts off her prim exterior and takes center stage in this fresh retelling of the classic novel. I will tell you the story of how I knew myself to be plain and therefore devoid of the one virtue which it behooves every woman to have. What is to be done with Mary Bennet? She possesses neither the beauty of her eldest sister, Jane, nor the high-spirited charm of second-born Lizzy. Even...