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Jane Austen’s Life, Society, Works [VHS] $1.98 It’s unlikely that there’s a more comprehensive collection on the life of novelist Jane Austen than this boxed set of three one-hour videos. The first video, Life, takes viewers to the locations where Austen lived her abbreviated life. The film looks at her birth, as one of seven children born to a country curate, how she lived and wrote, and her unfortunate early death. There’s also a look at h…

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Maurice: A Novel $7.99 “The work of an exceptional artist working close to the peak of his powers.” Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York TimesSet in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist introduces us to Maurice Hall when he is fourteen. We follow him through public school and Cambridge, and on into his father’s firm, Hill and Hall, Stock Brokers. In a highly str…

What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England $6.00 For every frustrated reader of the great nineteenth-century English novels of Austen, Trollope, Dickens, or the Brontës who has ever wondered whether a duke outranked an earl, when to yell “Tally Ho!” at a fox hunt, or how one landed in “debtor’s prison,” here is a “delightful reader’s companion that lights up the literary dark” (The New York Times). This fascinating, lively guide clarifies the …

Anne of Avonlea (The classic sequel to Anne of Green Gables!) $0.99 NOTE: This edition has a linked “Table of Contents” and has been beautifully formatted (searchable and interlinked) to work on your Amazon e-book reader or iPod e-book reader.Following Anne of Green Gables (1908), the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley. This book follows Anne from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that she teaches at Avonlea school.It includes many …

Wicked Wit of Jane Austen $6.99 An absorbing collection of Jane Austen’s sharpest, most profound and amusing observations, featuring wry insights on human nature, money, marriage, life and society, taken from her novels and from her highly entertaining letters.

The Wicked Wit of Jane Austen $6.99 An absorbing collection of Jane Austen’s sharpest, most profound, and most amusing observations   “A lady without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.”  — Persuasion   Featuring wry insights on human nature, money, marriage, life, and society, these inimitable quotes are taken directly from Jane Austen’s novels as well as her highly entertaining personal letters. They are accessible, thematically organized, and elegantly decorated, ensuring that this wonderful and witty volume will delight every Austen devotee.

Jane Austen and Leisure $150 Jane Austen's novels portray a leisured society of gentlemen and ladies who do not need to work. Even the minority of clergymen, soldiers and sailors – men with professions – are almost never seen working. Jane Austen herself, despite responsibility for some domestic tasks, wrote as a woman of leisure. Yet leisure, the distinguishing mark of a gentleman, was not meant to be an excuse for idleness. The proper use of leisure to fulfil duties, to read and to think, and above all to pursue social relations in a world where family and marriage for the propertied was of central importance, was a vital test of character.

Voices from the World of Jane Austen $12.99 A fascinating collection of first-hand accounts of life in the time of Jane Austen (1775-1817), showing how social standing and etiquette were prime considerations of the period, and revealing the stark contrast between upstairs’ and downstairs’ and the lives of men and women. With extracts from jane austen\’s novels, letters, biographies, memoirs and newspapers, including previously unpublished material held by The Jane Austen Society, British Library, Hampshire Record Office and Kent County Archives.

Jane Austen: Blood Persuasion $9.99 It is 1810, and the Damned are out of favor—banished from polite society. Jane Austen’s old undead friends have become new neighbors, raising hell in her tranquil village just in time to interrupt Jane’s work on what will be her masterpiece. Suddenly Jane’s niece is flirting dangerously with vampires, and a formerly respectable spinster friend has discovered the forbidden joys of intimate congress with the Damned (and is borrowing Jane’s precious silk stockings for her assignations). Writing is simply impossible now, with murderous creatures prowling the village’s once-peaceful lanes. And with the return of her vampire characteristics, a civil war looming between factions of the Damned, and a former lover who intends to spend eternity blaming her for his broken heart, Jane is facing a very busy year indeed.