The Classic Jane Austen Collection 6 Books Box Set - Fiction - Paperback

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Although kind relatives provide a roof over their heads, one way out of this misfortune is for both girls to marry well. However, impetuous Marianne and cautious Elinor find themselves having to choose between passionate romance and observing the rules of polite society Through risky liaisons, misunderstandings and illness, two very different individuals discover. in their own ways, that a mixture of sense and sensibility is the solution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEmma\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich... had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis comedy of manners, published in 1816, features Emma as an avowed spinster and matchmaker, who is convinced that she knows best who should marry whom. And despite Austen's own doubts, the charming and infuriating heroine is a favourite of many readers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaving almost ruined the prospects of Harriet Smith, her protégée, and been reprimanded by her good friend, George Knightley, Emma finally learns a little humility. She also comes to some surprising conclusions about love and marriage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePersuasion\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eI am half agony, half hope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnne Elliot lost the love of her life eight years earlier and the sorrow lingers on. Yet the dashing Captain Wentworth did not desert her; it was Anne who rejected him because she was persuaded that she could make a better match.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe never did.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuddenly, life deals them a second chance. Anne and Wentworth meet again on the social circuit. 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Catherine Morland is taken to Bath where, among a crowd of new acquaintances, she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to stay at their family home, Northanger Abbey. Catherine, a devotee of horrid Gothic novels, fervently hopes that the Abbey will match the haunted ruins conjured up in her imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile poking fun at popular fiction, Catherine's story also exposes the difference between illusion and reality, and shows how her artless approach to people attracts true friendship and love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2024-10-25T11:09:53+01:00","created_at":"2024-10-25T11:03:27+01:00","vendor":"Arcturus Publishing Ltd","type":"Fiction","tags":["Boxing Day","Summer reads"],"price":1299,"price_min":1299,"price_max":1299,"available":false,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":3999,"compare_at_price_min":3999,"compare_at_price_max":3999,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":44181089878195,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"B2D6945","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":false,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"The Classic Jane Austen Collection 6 Books Box Set - Fiction - Paperback","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1299,"weight":2000,"compare_at_price":3999,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781398809697","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/www.books2door.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/Thumbnail_f45bff92-c763-4404-bc1e-6c6c989f7868.jpg?v=1732629373","\/\/www.books2door.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/front_4ebce042-ce70-4791-b952-2ec256d5e4e3.jpg?v=1732629310","\/\/www.books2door.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/inside_dd48ffc6-d26d-46c6-81f2-e07029876eed.jpg?v=1732629429","\/\/www.books2door.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/back_d6aa12d3-c68f-4142-8772-381b148f1f9e.jpg?v=1732629466"],"featured_image":"\/\/www.books2door.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/Thumbnail_f45bff92-c763-4404-bc1e-6c6c989f7868.jpg?v=1732629373","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"The Classic Jane Austen Collection 6 Books Box Set - Fiction - Paperback Fiction Arcturus Publishing Ltd","id":63502383022467,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":3000,"width":3000,"src":"\/\/www.books2door.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/Thumbnail_f45bff92-c763-4404-bc1e-6c6c989f7868.jpg?v=1732629373"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":3000,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/www.books2door.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/Thumbnail_f45bff92-c763-4404-bc1e-6c6c989f7868.jpg?v=1732629373","width":3000},{"alt":"The Classic Jane Austen Collection 6 Books Box Set - Fiction - Paperback Fiction Arcturus Publishing Ltd","id":63502382956931,"position":2,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":3000,"width":3000,"src":"\/\/www.books2door.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/front_4ebce042-ce70-4791-b952-2ec256d5e4e3.jpg?v=1732629310"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":3000,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/www.books2door.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/front_4ebce042-ce70-4791-b952-2ec256d5e4e3.jpg?v=1732629310","width":3000},{"alt":"The Classic Jane Austen Collection 6 Books Box Set - Fiction - Paperback Fiction Arcturus Publishing Ltd","id":63502382989699,"position":3,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":3000,"width":3000,"src":"\/\/www.books2door.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/inside_dd48ffc6-d26d-46c6-81f2-e07029876eed.jpg?v=1732629429"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":3000,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/www.books2door.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/inside_dd48ffc6-d26d-46c6-81f2-e07029876eed.jpg?v=1732629429","width":3000},{"alt":"The Classic Jane Austen Collection 6 Books Box Set - Fiction - Paperback Fiction Arcturus Publishing Ltd","id":63502382924163,"position":4,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":3000,"width":3000,"src":"\/\/www.books2door.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/back_d6aa12d3-c68f-4142-8772-381b148f1f9e.jpg?v=1732629466"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":3000,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/www.books2door.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/back_d6aa12d3-c68f-4142-8772-381b148f1f9e.jpg?v=1732629466","width":3000}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitles in this set:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. 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Although kind relatives provide a roof over their heads, one way out of this misfortune is for both girls to marry well. However, impetuous Marianne and cautious Elinor find themselves having to choose between passionate romance and observing the rules of polite society Through risky liaisons, misunderstandings and illness, two very different individuals discover. in their own ways, that a mixture of sense and sensibility is the solution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEmma\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich... had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis comedy of manners, published in 1816, features Emma as an avowed spinster and matchmaker, who is convinced that she knows best who should marry whom. And despite Austen's own doubts, the charming and infuriating heroine is a favourite of many readers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaving almost ruined the prospects of Harriet Smith, her protégée, and been reprimanded by her good friend, George Knightley, Emma finally learns a little humility. She also comes to some surprising conclusions about love and marriage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePersuasion\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eI am half agony, half hope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnne Elliot lost the love of her life eight years earlier and the sorrow lingers on. Yet the dashing Captain Wentworth did not desert her; it was Anne who rejected him because she was persuaded that she could make a better match.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe never did.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuddenly, life deals them a second chance. Anne and Wentworth meet again on the social circuit. He acts coolly and even openly courts a younger woman, yet Anne remains painfully alert for the slightest hint that their love might be rekindled.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePersuasion was Austen's last novel, published posthumously in 1818.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMansfield Park\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryone looks upon shy, self-effacing Fanny Price as the poor relation among her four spoiled cousins at Mansfield Park.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdopted at a tender age by an uncle and aunt who have grown rich from a sugar plantation in distant Antigua, she finds herself morally at odds with them and their offspring Her chief consolation is the kindness of the younger son, Edmund Bertram, whom she secretly loves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe arrival in the village of city sophisticates Henry and Mary Crawford sparks a series of romantic entanglements which lead the Bertrams to the brink of social disaster and Fanny to the indisputable conclusion that propriety and pretty manners are not substitutes for integrity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNorthanger Abbey\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNorthanger Abbey is the light-hearted account of a young girls first excursion into fashionable society. Catherine Morland is taken to Bath where, among a crowd of new acquaintances, she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to stay at their family home, Northanger Abbey. Catherine, a devotee of horrid Gothic novels, fervently hopes that the Abbey will match the haunted ruins conjured up in her imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile poking fun at popular fiction, Catherine's story also exposes the difference between illusion and reality, and shows how her artless approach to people attracts true friendship and love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}