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Austen explores love and marriage in her novels, but what about her in life? Her letters are now the only direct way we have access to her. Listen to her talk about the gossips, playful jokes, and delicate little thoughts between parents. In an era when communications were underdeveloped, writing letters was a convenient and mysterious way of communication, just like how we use phone calls, text messages, and WeChat today. Austen's letters are sometimes not written on the same day. They write a little today, a little tomorrow, and then send them out together, a bit like a diary. Although the letter is not as orderly as the novel, it allows us to see a more realistic Austen.

Two sisters, Eleanor and Marianne, were born into an English squire family. After their father's death, the inheritance went to John, his son from his first marriage. They and their mother became financially strapped and, seeking to escape a life of dependency, set up home in a country house in Devon. As a result, Eleanor broke up with the young man Edward (brother of John's wife Fanny) whom she fell in love with, and Willoughby, whom Marianne met and fell in love with in the country, suddenly went to London for business. Both sisters were separated from their loved ones. Elinor often uses reason to control her emotions, but Marianne's emotions are passionate and exposed. In the face of love, the two reacted differently. The famous British literary writer and critic Keble commented that "Jane Austen is a comic artist" and believed that she was "second only to Shakespeare in terms of pure comic art." Thomas Macrolay, a famous British historian, poet and political commentator in the 19th century, called her "the Shakespeare of prose". As for the awakening of female consciousness reflected in Jane Austen's works, even today, more than two hundred years later, people's expectations for marriage still do not exceed its delineated scope-marriage is not a necessity in life. Marriage based on love is certainly beautiful, but if marriage is not for love, it is better to live alone.

Although "Sense and Sensibility" is Jane Austen's first novel, her writing skills are already quite proficient. The novel takes the tortuous and complicated marriage turmoil of the two heroines as the main line, and raises issues of moral and behavioral norms through the humorous comparison of "reason and emotion". Every plot in the story has been ingeniously conceived by the author. The superficial causal relationship and the underlying reasons hidden behind the scenes are all natural and reasonable. This book has been adapted into movies many times.

The protagonist Emma is a beautiful, intelligent and wealthy girl, and she is also an out-and-out dreamer. She enthusiastically pays attention to the romantic stories around her, but stubbornly believes that she will never fall into them. She took it upon herself to direct love affairs again and again for the orphan Harriet. When Harriet mistakenly thought she was in love with the magistrate Mr. Knightley, Emma was shocked to realize that she was also in love with Mr. Knightley.

"Pride and Prejudice" is a novel written by the British writer Jane Austen. It was originally written in 1796 under the name "First Impression". It was revised and published in 1813 under its current name. The novel is set against the background of middle-class life in rural England from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. It presents the social picture through various stories about the five daughters of the Bennet family and their mother's search for an ideal marriage partner. The work focuses on the emotional entanglement between the second daughter Elizabeth and Darcy: the two had misunderstandings due to pride and prejudice, and gradually eliminated their misunderstandings after experiencing family scandals, property disputes and other incidents, and finally achieved an ideal marriage. Through the profit-based marriage of Charlotte and Collins and the vanity-based union of Lydia and Wickham, the novel clearly opposes the concept of marrying for property, money and status, emphasizing that the sincere feelings between men and women are the cornerstone of marriage. Austen uses irony and delicate dialogue to depict characters. His language style is both humorous and critical, showing the world and human feelings under a conservative social atmosphere. The work has been adapted into movies and TV series many times since its publication.

Jane Austen's masterpiece. The love story of Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a squire, is one of the world's greatest romance novels and has been adapted into films and TV series many times.

Mrs. Bennet's lifelong ambition is to marry her five daughters decently, so she always regards the wealthy bachelors nearby as a piece of property that one of her daughters deserves. So there were several ups and downs of the separation and reunification of young men and women: the slander and misunderstanding between the wealthy son Darcy and the clever and astute second daughter Elizabeth, the lingering relationship between the wealthy son Bingley and the virtuous and kind-hearted eldest daughter Jane, the scandalous elopement of the prodigal Wickham and the frivolous and unreasonable daughter Lydia... In the end, the hero and heroine put aside their own pride and prejudice and made choices that conformed to their own morals. The work fully expresses the author's own views on marriage, emphasizing the impact of economic interests and family status on love and marriage.

This is the masterpiece of the famous British female writer Jane Austen. It is a novel describing love and marriage. This novel uses the love entanglement between the hero and heroine Darcy and Elizabeth due to pride and prejudice as a clue, and writes a total of four marriages. The plot of the novel is tortuous, dramatic, the language is fresh and fluent, and full of wit. It is one of Austen's most popular novels.

Although "Sense and Sensibility" is Jane Austen's first novel, her writing skills are already quite proficient. Every plot in the story has been ingeniously conceived by the author. The superficial causal relationship and the underlying reasons hidden behind the scenes are all natural and reasonable. The heroine makes reasonable speculations and judgments based on superficial phenomena. Although careful readers may have various doubts from time to time, their thoughts will naturally develop with good observations. When the final result appears, it will be completely different from the superficial phenomena, resulting in an unexpected comedy effect. If you read it over again, you will find that the factors that lead to the inevitable result have already been seen between the lines. The plot of the novel revolves around the mate selection activities of the two heroines, focusing on revealing the bad habit of using marriage as a way for women to seek economic security and improve their economic status in the British social trends at that time, and the ugly fashion of focusing on family status and ignoring women's feelings and human rights. The heroines in the novel all pursue equal communication and exchange of thoughts and feelings with men, demand equal rights in social status, and insist on independent observation, analysis, and freedom to choose men. In Britain at the time, this was almost a cry of defiance.

"Emma" is one of the most influential classic novels in the 19th century. The protagonist Emma is a beautiful, intelligent and wealthy girl, and she is also an out-and-out dreamer. She enthusiastically pays attention to the romantic stories around her, but stubbornly believes that she will never fall into them. She took it upon herself to direct love affairs again and again for the orphan Harriet. When Harriet mistakenly thought she was in love with the magistrate Mr. Knightley, Emma was shocked to realize that she was also in love with Mr. Knightley. Although this was contrary to the vow she had announced from the beginning that she would never marry, she had to give up her innocent vow when she fell in love. The work has been adapted to the screen many times.

Emma has outstanding appearance, a wealthy family, and is smart and generous. It seems that even God has favored her. However, she is not so perfect. She always likes to make random mistakes based on whims or impulses. The novel uses Emma's subjective imagination to be frustrated again and again in reality, and interprets the story of Emma's growth from childishness to maturity, and finally wins "perfect happiness".

"Pride and Prejudice" describes the emotional entanglements between the arrogant single young man Darcy and the prejudiced second lady Elizabeth, the wealthy single aristocrat Bingley and the virtuous eldest lady Jane. It fully expresses the author's own views on marriage and emphasizes the impact of economic interests on love and marriage. The plot of the novel is full of comedy and the language is witty and humorous. It is the most popular of Austen's novels and has been adapted into movies and TV series many times.

"Pride and Prejudice" describes the love and marriage of middle-class men and women. The novel uses comedy techniques to express serious criticism of life and explores the heroine's psychological process of self-discovery from love to marriage. The marriage between the heroine and Darcy is a happy marriage that the author praises as "setting an example for all lovers in the world".

This book is one of the author's major works. The kind-hearted and sensible Fanny was fostered in the home of her wealthy aunt since she was a child because her family was poor. Although her aunt's two cousins ​​were smart and beautiful, they were both arrogant and willful. Thanks to the kind care of her cousin Edmund, she found comfort and happiness in the life of being dependent on others. As an adult, Fanny often attended social gatherings with her cousins. They met the charming young man Crawford and his sister Mary at the pastor's house. Edmund falls in love with the beautiful and witty Mary at first sight, while Fanny's two cousins ​​desperately pursue Crawford. Unexpectedly, Crawford discovers that he really likes Fanny after a casual encounter, while Fanny's deep love is always the gentle and sincere Edmund... The final ending of these young men and women trapped in emotional entanglements is unexpected, but also reasonable.

Recommended edition personally written by the President of the Jane Austen Society! Original color illustrations, original picture and text interpretation! If you don't cater to or accommodate yourself, you will definitely meet the right person! "It is a universally recognized truth that a single man with a rich family must marry a wife." Successfully marrying off her five daughters was a major event in Mrs. Bennet's life! Suddenly one day, a single man with a wealthy family moved into the Netherfield Manor next door, and the story of Miss Bennet's search for love began. On this road to marriage, how should they with different personalities meet the "right person" of their own?

This book is Jane Austen's masterpiece. The author uses humorous writing to tell readers several dramatic love stories around the marriages of several daughters of the Bennet family. The most exciting one is the emotional entanglement between the arrogant young man Darcy and the prejudiced second daughter Elizabeth of the Bennet family. The plot of the book is tortuous and fascinating, the language is vivid and interesting, and the writing style is brisk, giving readers a wonderful artistic enjoyment. In this book, Jane Austen celebrates the beauty of love and also shows the importance of abandoning misunderstandings and stereotypes in the pursuit of true love. This book not only presents a wonderful love story, but also vividly depicts the rural life and social conditions in Britain at that time, which has high reading value.

Austen's popular classic; the translator Wu Lao wrote the "Translation Preface", which provides a comprehensive analysis of the classic. This book is Austen's first published work, and it can be called a companion volume to Pride and Prejudice. Two sisters, Eleanor and Marianne, were born into a decent British squire family. The elder sister is good at controlling her emotions with reason, but the younger sister has no restraint in emotions. Therefore, when they encounter setbacks in love, the two have different reactions: the older sister endures humiliation and is always kind to others; the younger sister is arrogant and almost collapses... And the fate of the protagonist The love-related idle squire's wife, the snobbish and ruthless brother-in-law's family, the hypocritical distant sisters of the philistine, and the lovers who are either morally corrupt or upright and weak in the hearts of girls all appear in this storm, creating a classic story that is famous for its delicate writing and vivid dialogue, and tells the story of the marriage and love of girls without a wealthy dowry.

"Pride and Prejudice" is a universal masterpiece and a classic art treasure in the world's literary treasure house. This book mainly tells the love stories between the protagonists Elizabeth and Darcy, Bingley and Jane. The author fully demonstrates his views on relationships and marriage between the lines, hinting at the impact of economic interests on love and marriage. The plot of the novel is extremely comedic and the language is witty and humorous. It is one of Austen's most popular novels and has been adapted into film and television dramas many times.

This book describes the story of Carrie, a rural girl who came to the big city of Chicago to find happiness. In order to get rid of poverty, she chose to sell herself in desperation. The writer, represented by Carrie, profoundly exposed the cruelty of the American capitalist system's oppression of poor people and the corrosiveness of the bourgeois lifestyle on petty bourgeois elements.

Two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, were born into a decent British squire family. The elder sister is good at controlling her emotions with reason, but the younger sister is often emotionally unrestrained. Therefore, when they encounter setbacks in love, they have different reactions: the elder sister endures humiliation and is always kind to others; the younger sister is arrogant and almost collapses... The relationship between the fate and love of the protagonist is related to the fate of the protagonist. The idle squire wife, the snobbish and ruthless brother-in-law family, the hypocritical distant sisters of the philistine, and the three lovers in the girl's heart who are either morally corrupt or upright and weak all appear. The book starts with a comedy, develops into a tragedy, and ends in a comedy. It is a classic story about the marriage and love of a girl without a wealthy dowry, which is known for its delicate writing and vivid dialogue.

The wise and clever Elizabeth said, "Even if I can't find a man in my life, I would never want me to marry you." But the handsome and indifferent Mr. Darcy said, "I found out that I fell in love with you only when I couldn't help myself." One of them is prejudiced, the other is arrogant, and they stay away from each other in every contact, which makes the little spark of love flicker. In the end, the misunderstanding was solved, Darcy married Elizabeth as he wished, and Elizabeth broke away from prejudice and became Mrs. Darcy, which confirmed the saying "You can't get married without love." The story style of the novel is relaxed and humorous, and the scene descriptions are beautiful and charming. It explains four different views on marriage and love through the marriage experiences of four pairs of men and women. It is a love and marriage novel that is still very attractive and realistic even after two hundred years.

"Sense and Sensibility" is Jane Austen's humorous debut novel. Two sisters, Enoli and Mariana, were born into an English squire family. The elder sister is good at controlling her emotions with reason, but the younger sister's emotions are unrestrained. Therefore, when faced with love, they have different reactions... The novel takes the twists and turns of the complicated marriage of the two heroines as the main line, and raises the normative issues of morality and behavior through the humorous comparison of "reason and emotion". This book and the author's "Pride and Prejudice" can be called companion works. They also use delicate writing and vivid dialogue to tell the story of a girl without a wealthy dowry falling in love and getting married.

"Mansfield Park", like the author's other novels, takes the love and marriage of young men and women as its theme. However, comparatively speaking, the plot of this book is more complex, the unexpected events are more concentrated, and the social satire is more intense. The novel ends with a happy marriage between Fanny and Edmund, but as the story develops, the author's satirical style is mainly directed at the British upper class represented by wealthy families, revealing their artificiality and absurdity.

"Pride and Prejudice" is Jane Austen's masterpiece. Describing the emotional entanglements between the arrogant single young man Darcy and the prejudiced second lady Elizabeth, the wealthy single aristocrat Bentley and the virtuous eldest lady Jane, it fully expresses the author's own views on marriage and emphasizes the impact of economic interests on love and marriage. The plot of the novel is full of comedy and the language is witty and humorous. It is one of Austen's most popular novels and has been adapted into movies and TV series many times.

The heroine of the novel "Northanger Abbey" - Catherine Moran, the daughter of a well-off clergyman, comes to Bath, a spa resort, with Squire Allen and his wife. She meets and falls in love with the young clergyman Henry Tilney at a ball. At the same time, she also met another young man, John Thorpe. After some twists and turns, the two young lovers finally got married. "Persuasion" is the author Austen's last novel and her most mature one. It is considered to have more ideological and emotional depth than her previous works. The story tells that time is passing from Anne's body, and when she was in her prime, she finally parted ways with her lover, Colonel Wentworth, because she accepted the "persuasion" of others. The two met again eight years after they broke up. After experiencing a series of things, they found that being reunited was happier than falling in love for the first time. Therefore, after enduring the test, they no longer remained indifferent and began to reminisce and express their feelings to their heart's content.

When Jane Austen lived and wrote, British novels were experiencing a period of sluggishness. From the 1770s to the first decade of the 19th century, no important works were produced. It was not until 1811, when Jane Austen published her first novel, Sense and Sensibility, that she broke this suffocating dull situation. Then, she published five novels: "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield Park", "Emma", "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion". With their rational light, these works cleared the way for the climax of British realist novels in the 19th century. Jane Austen was also praised by critics as "the incomparable Jane Austen" because she created exquisite works comparable to those of Shakespeare and Dickens. Austen's six novels have been tested for more than 170 years and have been praised by generations of readers. All of them can be regarded as excellent works.

This book consists of two masterpieces by Jane Austen. "Pride and Prejudice" tells a love story between young men and women. The male protagonist Darcy behaves arrogantly, causing the heroine Elizabeth to always be prejudiced against him, which also makes their love journey full of hardships. The work truly reproduces the common views on love, marriage and values ​​of the middle class in British rural society at that time. "Sense and Sensibility" takes two sisters with very different personalities as the protagonists and tells the story of their love experiences. Using contrasting techniques, it shows the rationality and calmness of sister Eleanor and the passion and sensibility of sister Marianne. Thus it reflects the value orientation of secular human relationships and love and marriage in British rural society at that time.

"The Collected Works of Jane Austen" includes six representative works of the outstanding British female writer Jane Austen: "Pride and Prejudice", "Sense and Sensibility", "Mansfield Park", "Emma" and "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion" published after her death. With extraordinary insight and exquisite language, she truly shows the small world around her. These six masterpieces span half of his life from 1795 to 1816 and are the culmination of Austen's short and intense creative career. The emotional attitude displayed in her works remains an insight that transcends its time even today. This edition is carefully translated by the famous translator Mr. Sun Zhili based on the Oxford edition, which is accurate and vivid; it also includes dozens of classic illustrations by the famous illustrator Hugh Thomson of the Victorian era.

"Pride and Prejudice" tells the story of the love and mate selection of five sisters in an ordinary middle-class family in England in the early 19th century. In the book, Darcy, the hero of the rich family, is arrogant, which makes the heroine Elizabeth prejudice him, and almost misses the true love in his heart. Later, these misunderstandings are all resolved, and the lovers finally get married.

"Pride and Prejudice" mainly talks about Austen's satirical art, which is not only reflected in the comic characters of certain characters, nor in the comic treatment of many plots, but also integrated into the ironic conception of the entire story, allowing reality to ridicule people's subjective imagination. The male protagonist Darcy initially concluded that the Bennet family had so many disadvantages that it would be difficult for the daughters to find a man of status, but later it was he who married Elizabeth. As for Elizabeth, she had vowed never to marry Darcy, but in the end she became Mrs. Darcy. Let's look at the arrogant Lady Catherine de Boer. In order to prevent Elizabeth from marrying her nephew Darcy, she worked tirelessly and personally. First she came to intimidate Elizabeth, and then she ran to admonish Darcy. Little did she know that it was her trip that communicated messages between the two young people who fell in love silently, and promoted their happy union.