If you have been waiting or procrastinating – NOW (this summer) is the time for the inimitable JANE – two of AUSTEN’s most readable, endearing, and beloved books in handsome, durable, and friendly editions are available for years of reading pleasure.Go HERE to Publisher’s Website for direct purchasing links to AMAZON.com - fast and convenient!
JANE AUSTEN – often likened to the perdurable William Shakespeare in her Wit and Wisdom – progenitor of the modern novel of Character (building from foundations laid by the comedies of Fielding and the tragedies of Richardson) – anticipating the Caricatures of the great Charl
es Dickens – admired by the genius of George Eliot and the depth of Henry James – foreshadowing the Free Indirect Discourse of moderns such as James Joyce and William Faulkner.
After a long year of detailed work, we are pleased to present SENSE AND SENSIBILITY and PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen, important editions fully-loaded with:
· a readable scholarly INTRODUCTION that establishes Jane Austen as both a real person and a time-honored author, reviewing the reception and criticism of this remarkable author from Sir Walter Scott to contemporary scholarship;
· the Introduction also lays out some main ideas and themes in AUSTEN’s work – (to name but a few) from the relationship between a Man and a Woman, to the conflict between an Individual and her Family, to the movements from established Tradition to social Change;
· a handy TIMELINE, RESOURCES page (in fact there are three separate bibliographies in these editions), and overview of FILM and contemporary SEQUELS (including some pertinent WEBSITES);
· a carefully-edited text (where each line has been painstakingly examined in consultation with other academic editions);
· an explanative Note on the Text which highlights some of the editor’s concerns;
· and a range of STUDY MATERIALS (the likes of which have never before been seen in such editions) that take the reader from a brief history of the English language;
· to a GLOSSARY of words and phrases frequent in Austen;
· literary TERMINOLOGY and techniques;
· THEORETIC readings;
· ways of RESPONDING to a text;
· subjects and THEMES for analysis;
· and a variety of QUESTIONS readers will ask generally, about novel reading, and specifically, about each of these novels.
· And not least of all, we have included a sampling of representative LETTERS by the author herself, to demonstrate her humor, charm, warmth, intelligence, and humanity.
· a handy TIMELINE, RESOURCES page (in fact there are three separate bibliographies in these editions), and overview of FILM and contemporary SEQUELS (including some pertinent WEBSITES);
· a carefully-edited text (where each line has been painstakingly examined in consultation with other academic editions);
· an explanative Note on the Text which highlights some of the editor’s concerns;
· and a range of STUDY MATERIALS (the likes of which have never before been seen in such editions) that take the reader from a brief history of the English language;
· to a GLOSSARY of words and phrases frequent in Austen;
· literary TERMINOLOGY and techniques;
· THEORETIC readings;
· ways of RESPONDING to a text;
· subjects and THEMES for analysis;
· and a variety of QUESTIONS readers will ask generally, about novel reading, and specifically, about each of these novels.
· And not least of all, we have included a sampling of representative LETTERS by the author herself, to demonstrate her humor, charm, warmth, intelligence, and humanity.
These editions, therefore, are perfect not only for the individual reader but for reading groups and classroom instruction.
