Jane Austen. Book 2

Jane Austen. Book 2. 1. Emma; 2. Persuasion; 3. Juvenilia. Volume I-III.


1. Emma  1815    942 стр

Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in December 1815, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome, clever, and rich" but is also rather spoiled. Prior to starting the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like."


2. Persuasion  1818   485 стр

Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma and completed it in August 1816. She died, at age 41, in 1817; Persuasion was published in December of that year (but dated 1818).

Persuasion is linked to Northanger Abbey not only by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume and published together, but also because both stories are set partly in Bath, a fashionable city with which Austen was well acquainted, having lived there from 1801 to 1805.


3. Juvenilia – Volume I-III.   (1787–1793)   стр. 184

The Juvenilia is a collection of Jane Austen's early writing. She compiled the works in three bound notebooks entitled Volume the First, Volume the Second, and Volume the Third. Austen wrote the stories and plays in the collection between 1787 and 1793, when she was a teenager.