Jane Austen (223 kníh)
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Jane Austen Northanger Abbey EN
This title comes with an introduction by P.D. James. The Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers and Austen fans: Alexander McCall Smith, Lynne Truss, Amanda Vickery, Francesca Segal, P.D. James and Andrew Motion.
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Jane Austen Northanger Abbey EN
While staying in Bath, Catherine Morland meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor who invite her to their family estate. A fan of Gothic Romance novels, naive Catherine is soon letting her imagination run wild in the atmospheric abbey, fuelled by her friendship with the vivacious Isabella Thorpe. It is only when the realities of life set in that Catherine's fantastical world is shattered.
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Jane Austen Northanger Abbey EN
To coincide with the launch of The Austen Project this is a pocket-sized hardback collection of Jane Austen's timeless novels - perfect for Austen fans everywhere. 'Northanger Abbey! These were thrilling words, and wound up Catherine's feelings to the highest point of ecstasy.' Considered the most light-hearted and satirical of Austen's novels, Northanger Abbey tells the story of an unlikely young heroine Catherine…
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Jane Austen Northanger Abbey EN
Catherine Morland meets all the trappings of Gothic horror and imagines the worst. Disaster does eventually strike, as it does in the real world as distinct from the romantic one, but without spoiling the wonderful atmosphere of this story.
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Jane Austen Northanger Abbey EN
During an eventful season at Bath, young, naïve Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who shares Catherine's love of Gothic romance and horror, and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father's mysterious house, Northanger Abbey. There, her imagination influenced by novels of…
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Jane Austen Northanger Abbey EN
Catherine Morland is a young girl with a very active imagination. Her naivety and love of sensational novels lead her to approach the fashionable social scene in Bath and her stay at nearby Northanger Abbey with preconceptions that have embarrassing and entertaining consequences. Catnerine's invitation to Northanger Abbey, in her eyes a haven of coffins, skeletons and other Gothic devices, does lead to an adventure…
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Jane Austen Northanger Abbey
Catherine Morland is a young girl with a very active imagination. Her naivety and love of sensational novels lead her to approach the fashionable social scene in Bath and her stay at nearby Northanger ...
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Jane Austen Northanger Abbey
Visiting the fashionable city of Bath, 17-year-old Catherine Morland looks for the excitement she finds in romantic fiction. She makes friends and falls in love. But when she is invited to Northanger Abbey, she experiences desperate unhappiness...
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Jane Austen Northanger Abbey
Visiting the fashionable city of Bath, 17-year-old Catherine Morland looks for the excitement she finds in romantic fiction. She makes friends and falls in love. But when she is invited to Northanger Abbey, she experiences desperate unhappiness...
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Jane Austen Northanger Abbey
While enjoying a six weeks' stay in fashionable Bath, the young and callow Catherine Morland is introduced to the delights of high society. Thanks to a new literary diet of the sensational and the macabre...
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Jane Austen Opatství Northanger CZ
Módní lázeňské město Bath před dvěma staletími: sem jezdili angličtí otcové léčit v horkých pramenech klouby trápené dnou a spolu s manželkami uvádět dcery do společnosti s cílem upoutat zájem žádoucích ženichů. Hrdinky příběhu, upřímná, bezelstná mladinká Catherine a její mazaná přítelkyně Isabella si toto své poslání zpestřují četbou tehdy velmi oblíbených hororových gotických románů a jejich rekvizity vidí na…
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Jane Austen Opatství Northanger CZ
Módní lázeňské město Bath před dvěma staletími: sem jezdili angličtí otcové léčit v horkých pramenech klouby trápené dnou a spolu s manželkami uvádět dcery do společnosti s cílem upoutat zájem žádoucích ženichů. Hrdinky příběhu, upřímná, bezelstná mladinká Catherine a její mazaná přítelkyně Isabella si toto své poslání zpestřují četbou tehdy velmi oblíbených hororových gotických románů a jejich rekvizity vidí na…
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Jane Austen Opatství Northanger CZ
Slavná anglická spisovatelka Jane Austenová napsala řadu románů. Jedním z nich je román Opatství Northanger. Sedmnáctiletou Catherine Morlandovou uvedou příbuzní v lázeňském městečku Bath poprvé do společnosti. Na jednom z plesů se seznámí s mladým panem Tineym, který jí padne do oka. Po tancovačkách, procházkách na kolonádě a výletech do okolí si Catherine vždy najde čas na čtení hororoných gotických románů.…
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Jane Austen Opatství Northanger CZ
V mondénních anglických lázních Bath bývaly v době Jane Austenové mladé slečny uváděny do společnosti, aby se obrousily a pod dohledem matinek získaly žádoucí partii. Hrdinkou příběhu je Catherine, dcera venkovského faráře, upřímné, bezelstné, radostné stvoření, které se v nezvyklém prostředí vedle vítaných radovánek setká i s nejednou nástrahou. Ačkoliv má hlavu popletenou hrůzostrašnými gotickými romány, tehdejší…
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Jane Austen Opátstvo Northanger
Dostupné aj v kolekcii za skvelú cenu. Módne kúpeľné mestečko Bath pred dvesto rokmi: sem si chodili anglickí otcovia liečiť v horúcich prameňoch kĺby trápené dnou a spolu s manželkami uvádzať dcéry do spoločnosti s cieľom upútať záujem vyhliadnutých ženíchov. Hrdinky príbehu, úprimná, naivná mladučká Catherine a jej prefíkaná priateľka Isabella, si toto svoje poslanie spestrujú čítaním v tých časoch veľmi…
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Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë Penguin Popular Classics (Kolekcia) EN
Kolekcia titulov: Pride and Prejudice a Jane Eyre.Pride and Prejudice: Many consider this rich social commentary to be Jane Austen's finest novel. It is certainly among her more famous ones. Austen sets her entertaining study of manners and misconceptions against the backdrop of a class-conscious society in 18th-century England.Jane Eyre: Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt and later…
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Jane Austen Persuasion EN
Eight years ago, Anne rejected the man she loved because her friends and family persuaded her that he wasn´t rich or important enough...
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Jane Austen Persuasion EN
This title comes with an introduction by Lynne Truss. The Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers and Austen fans: Alexander McCall Smith, Lynne Truss, Amanda Vickery, Francesca Segal, P.D. James and Andrew Motion. Eight years ago Anne Elliot bowed to pressure from her family and made the decision not to marry…
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Jane Austen Persuasion EN
When they were very young, Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth were in love. They did not marry, but Anne never forgot her love for him. Now, many years later, they meet again. Does Wentworth feel anything for Anne, or is he only interested in her pretty young friends? Classic / British English
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Jane Austen Persuasion EN
Eight years ago Anne Elliot bowed to pressure from her family and made the decision not to marry the man she loved, Captain Wentworth. Now, circumstances have conspired to bring him back into her social circle and Anne finds her old feelings for him reignited. However, when they meet again Wentworth behaves as if they are strangers and seems more interested in her friend Louisa. In this, her final novel, Jane Austen…
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Jane Austen Persuasion EN
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning. Anne Elliot is persuaded by her friends and family to reject a marriage proposal from Captain wentworth because he lacks in fortune and rank. More than seven years later, when he returns home from the Navy, Anne realises she still has strong feelings for him, but wentworth only…
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