Jane. Austen

Margaret Drabble

When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Arizona

'I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print,' Jane Austen declared of her heroine in Pride and Prejudice.Few readers have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet. Her early determination to dislike Mr Darcy-who is quite the most handsome and eligible bachelor in the whole of English literature-is a misjudgement only matched in folly by Darcy's arrogant pride. Their first impressions give way to truer feelings in a comedy profoundly concerned with happiness and how it might be achieved.Vivien Jones, in her new introduction to this Penguin Classics edition, shows how their romance is inseparable from the important social and political debates of Austen's time, and describes Pride and Prejudice as 'One of the most perfect, most pleasurable and most subtle-and therefore, perhaps, most dangerously persuasive-of romantic love stories.'

Pride and Prejudice

796172ca-99c4-42ca-a90d-284167200235-1

Diane Johnson

New. Never read. Smoke free/pet free home.

Minnesota

The romance between Captain Wentworth and Anne, the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, is doomed because of the young man's family connections and lack of wealth, until he makes his fortune at sea and returns to claim her as his wife. Reissue.

Persuasion

178b300d-6102-4086-a5c2-ea0e54ee51fe-1

Eloisa James

New York

Sabrina Jeffries

Texas

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!

A fascinating, humorous, and timeless coming-of-age tale featuring one of Jane Austen's most memorable characters.

"Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition...had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her."

The celebrated opening of Jane Austen's Emma introduces readers to a supremely self-assured and accomplished young woman who believes herself immune to romance. By turns brilliant and foolish, self-aware and self-deluding, Emma "leaps from error to error," writes Margaret Drabble in her incisive Introduction, wreaking comic havoc in the lives of those around her. The mature flowering of Austen's singular and prolific genius, Emma is the compelling story of a woman seeking her true nature and finding true love in the process.

With an Introduction by Margaret Drabble
and an Afterword by Sabrina Jeffries

Emma

e97aabe7-5ded-41c7-97a2-31a41fa9c58a-1

Stephanie Laurens

Ohio

Catherine Morland's sentimental illusions about life and love crumble as she enters into adulthood and encounters the politics, pitfalls, and machinations of Bath society. Reissue.

Northanger Abbey

8132888d-ab1c-4b58-a8c4-5632e7306a4b-1

Pennsylvania

Published in 1811, Sense and Sensibility has delighted generations of readers with its masterfully crafted portrait of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Forced to leave their home after their father's death, Elinor and Marianne must rely on making good marriages as their means of support. But unscrupulous cads, meddlesome matriarchs, and various guileless and artful women impinge on their chances for love and happiness. The novelist Elizabeth Bowen wrote, "The technique of ÝJane Austen's novels¨ is beyond praise....Her mastery of the art she chose, or that chose her, is complete." This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition contains a new Introduction by Pulitzer Prize finalist David Gates, in addition to new explanatory notes.

Sense and Sensibility

7e3b2786-f96f-45d5-a488-54cb88b6c036-1

I bought and read this book for school so it has annotations on the pages but they are neat. The covers are good but the spine is creased. Everyone has to read this book at least once. It is one of my favorites. 

d2512208-5a26-4c79-af9f-d440f1157d47-1

A timeless coming-of-age story follows the adventures of the self-assured and accomplished Emma, a twenty-one-year-old girl of privilege who believes she is immune to romance and has several chaotic and often humorous experiences. Reissue.

This book has minimal wear. It has been read once and shelf kept. The pages clean and unmarked. 

Michigan

Margaret Drabble's affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, about a casual love affair, an unplanned pregnancy, and one young woman's decision to become a mother.


The Millstone

0994e729-121d-4a60-a2cf-6219ee170973-1

Alabama

f6d8b6e0-1ba3-47d9-9839-cea5515fd414

Mary Balogh

Two sisters of opposing temperaments who share the pangs of tragic love provide the theme for Jane Austen's dramatically human narrative.

Elinor, practical and conventional, is the perfection of sense. Marianne, emotional and sentimental, is the embodiment of sensibility. To each comes the sorrow of unhappy love.
 
Their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between the two sisters--and true love finally triumphs when sense gives way to sensibility and sensibility gives way to sense. Jane Austen's authentic representation of early-nineteenth-century middle-class provincial life, written with forceful insight and gentle irony, makes her novels the enduring works on the mores and manners of her time.

With an Introduction by Margaret Drabble
and an Afterword by Mary Balogh 

e1be4544-288f-4d6a-9769-efe87ed4457b-1

A Summer Bird-Cage

77be9432-0730-47e4-918c-a57a2d0a12a7-1

Brand new! Never read! Perfect Condition!

Florida

California

Hawaii

Maryland

Thomas Hardy

Oregon

Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardy’s passionate tale of the beautiful, headstrong farmer Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors, firmly established the thirty-four-year-old writer as a popular novelist. According to Virginia Woolf, “The subject was right; the method was right; the poet and the countryman, the sensual man, the sombre reflective man, the man of learning, all enlisted to produce a book which . . . must hold its place among the great English novels.” Introducing the fictional name of “Wessex” to describe Hardy’s legendary countryside, this early masterpiece draws a vivid picture of rural life in southwest England. This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the 1912 Wessex edition and features Hardy’s map of Wessex.

Far from the Madding Crowd

da7338a4-a743-48ae-a641-615c14d2f3b3-1

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Missouri

A Novel

One of the Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2017 and a New York Times Notable Book of 2017

From the great British novelist Dame Margaret Drabble comes a vital and audacious tale about the many ways in which we confront aging and living in a time of geopolitical rupture.

Francesca Stubbs has an extremely full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives "restlessly round England," which is "her last love . . . She wants to see it all before she dies." Amid the professional conferences that dominate her schedule, she fits in visits to old friends, brings home cooked dinners to her ailing ex-husband, texts her son, who is grieving over the shocking death of his girlfriend, and drops in on her daughter, a quirky young woman who lives in a flood plain in the West Country. Fran cannot help but think of her mortality, but she is "not ready to settle yet, with a cat upon her knee." She still prizes her "frisson of autonomy," her belief in herself as a dynamic individual doing meaningful work in the world.

The Dark Flood Rises moves between Fran's interconnected group of family and friends in England and a seemingly idyllic expat community in the Canary Islands. In both places, disaster looms. In Britain, the flood tides are rising, and in the Canaries, there is always the potential for a seismic event. As well, migrants are fleeing an increasingly war-torn Middle East.

Though The Dark Flood Rises delivers the pleasures of a traditional novel, it is clearly situated in the precarious present. Margaret Drabble's latest enthralls, entertains, and asks existential questions in equal measure. Alas, there is undeniable truth in Fran's insight: "Old age, it's a fucking disaster!"

The Dark Flood Rises

f988ec97-161e-4eff-b4ca-1811362d5764-1

But for all her exotic ancestry and glamour, has Faro really travelled any further than her Breaseborough kin?"--BOOK JACKET.

The Peppered Moth

e8722c74-1cda-4d9e-a0c7-ef45e36c1d29-1

Massachusetts

Inscription on the first page otherwise, no writing, rips or marks. Dust jacket is intact.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

English

5th Edition

Contains alphabetically arranged entries on authors, characters, and works which will prove useful to readers of English literature

Browse by categories

Save this search

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Jane. Austen; Margaret Drabble; Diane Johnson

Persuasion

Jane. Austen; Margaret Drabble; Eloisa James

Pride and Prejudice

Jane. Austen; Margaret Drabble; Sabrina Jeffries

Emma

Jane. Austen; Margaret Drabble; Stephanie Laurens

Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility

Jane. Austen; Margaret Drabble; Eloisa James

Pride and Prejudice

Jane. Austen; Margaret Drabble; Eloisa James

Pride and Prejudice

Jane. Austen; Margaret Drabble

Emma

Margaret Drabble

The Millstone

Jane. Austen; Margaret Drabble; Sabrina Jeffries

Emma

Jane. Austen; Margaret Drabble; Mary Balogh

Sense and Sensibility

Margaret Drabble

A Summer Bird-Cage

Jane. Austen; Margaret Drabble; Stephanie Laurens

Northanger Abbey

Jane. Austen; Margaret Drabble

Emma

Jane. Austen; Margaret Drabble; Eloisa James

Pride and Prejudice

Jane. Austen; Margaret Drabble; Eloisa James

Pride and Prejudice

Jane. Austen; Margaret Drabble; Eloisa James

Pride and Prejudice

Thomas Hardy; Margaret Drabble

Far from the Madding Crowd

Margaret Drabble

The Dark Flood Rises

Margaret Drabble

The Peppered Moth

Jane. Austen; Margaret Drabble

Emma

Jane. Austen; Margaret Drabble; Mary Balogh

Sense and Sensibility

Margaret Drabble

The Oxford Companion to English Literature