Austen

Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life and a reckless taste for flirtation. Mansfield Park is considered Jane Austen's first mature work and, with its quiet heroine and subtle examination of social position and moral integrity, one of her most profound.

Roman sanatının eşsiz ustası Jane Austen, gençlik yıllarında bir dizi öykü kaleme almıştı... Aşk ve Gurur, Mansfield Parkı gibi ölümsüz romanlara hazırlık niteliğindeki bu öyküler büyük oranda gölgede kalmıştır. Austen, kahramanlarının iç dünyalarını çalışırken bu öykülerde denediği ve keşfettiği iç konuşmaları, mektup biçimini adeta bir kuyumcu titizliği ile parlatmış ve bunun yanına ulaşılmaz yazarlık zekâsını da eklemiştir. Aşk ve Arkadaşlık, İngiliz aristokrasisine mensup genç kızların duygu dünyalarını, kıskançlıklarını, gençlik hatalarıyla dolu gündelik yaşamlarını yalın bir dille anlatıyor. Austenın politik ironisine, sözünü sakınmayan zarafetine bayılacaksınız. (Tanıtım Bülteninden)

"She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me." So begins the timeless romance of Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen's classic novel is beloved by millions, but little is revealed in the book about the mysterious and handsome hero, Mr. Darcy. And so the question has long remained: Who is Fitzwilliam Darcy? In An Assembly Such as This, Pamela Aidan finally answers that long-standing question. In this first book of her Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman trilogy, she reintroduces us to Darcy during his visit to Hertfordshire with his friend Charles Bingley and reveals Darcy's hidden perspective on the events of Pride and Prejudice. As Darcy spends more time at Netherfield supervising Bingley and fending off Miss Bingley's persistent advances, his unwilling attraction to Elizabeth grows—as does his concern about her relationship with his nemesis, George Wickham. Setting the story vividly against the colorful historical and political background of the Regency, Aidan writes in a style comfortably at home with Austen but with a wit and humor very much her own. Aidan adds her own cast of fascinating characters to those in Austen's original, weaving a rich tapestry from Darcy's past and present. Austen fans and newcomers alike will love this new chapter of the most famous romance of all time.