Jane Austen
41) Sanditon
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
UK edition ; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 6 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tom Parker is obsessed with turning the sleepy seaside village of Sanditon into a fashionable health resort, enlisting the backing of local bigwig Lady Denham. Through a mishap, Tom makes the acquaintance of the Heywoods and invites their eldest daughter, Charlotte, for an extended stay at Sanditon. Meanwhile, Lady Denham, a widow, is playing matchmaker for her destitute nephew, Sir Edward, who is determined to seduce Lady Denham's ward, Clara.
Author
Pub. Date
1982
Physical Desc
767 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: A delightful novel about "how girls catch husbands. Listen in to find out: What will happen to sister Lydia? Will the arrogant Lady Catherine de Burgh's intrigues be foiled? Will sister Jane marry Mr. Bingley? And especially, will Elizabeth, cured of her prejudice, and Mr. Darcy, cured of his pride, fall into each other's arms? ---- NORTHANGER ABBEY is about a naïve young woman whose head is full of the Gothic novels she consumes,...
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 paperback (348 pages ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
Tells of the Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune.
44) Emma
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new protegée, Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behavior with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger. Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will find...
Author
Series
Novels volume 5
Pub. Date
1933
Edition
3rd ed.
Physical Desc
252, 310 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
46) Mansfield Park
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Fanny Price is sent away to live with her rich cousins, she's meant to learn the ways of proper society but manages to enlighten them as well.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
John Jasper, a choirmaster and opium addict, struggles with fits of paranoia and jealousy as he watches the women he loves fall in love with his nephew, Edwin Drood. Fanny Price, a young impoverished woman, arrives at her uncle's country estate, and is snubbed by everyone except her cousin Edmund, whom she soon grows to love. Mystery surrounds a pretty Victorian governess and her two young charges as the children become possessed by ghostly spells....
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The beautiful widow Susan Vernon has come to the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors about her dalliances circulating through polite society. Whilst there, she decides to secure a husband for herself and her rather reluctant debutante daughter, Frederica.
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
London, 1812. Oliver Bennet feels trapped. Not just by the endless corsets, petticoats and skirts he's forced to wear on a daily basis, but also by society's expectations. The world--and the vast majority of his family and friends--think Oliver is a girl named Elizabeth. He is therefore expected to mingle at balls wearing a pretty dress, entertain suitors regardless of his interest in them, and ultimately become someone's wife. But Oliver can't bear...
Author
Series
Amish classics volume 2
Publisher
Realms
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 285 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Emma Weaver is twenty-one years old and has found a passion for playing matchmaker with her friends. Her neighbor, Gideon King, warns her about interfering in people's lives, but she disregards his advice and plans to set up Paul, the son of the bishop, with her friend Hannah. But when Paul misinterprets Emma's attention, believing she has feelings for him, he begins asking her to ride in his buggy after Sunday singings and shows up at her house...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
465 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This sexy, epic, hilarious, poignant and romantic sequel to Pride and Prejudice goes far beyond being a Jane Austen sequel. Every woman wants to be Elizabeth Bennet Darcy-beautiful, gracious, universally admired, strong, daring and outspoken-a thoroughly modern woman in crinolines. And every woman will fall madly in love with Mr. Darcy-tall, dark and handsome, a nobleman and a heart-throb whose virility is matched only by his utter devotion to his...
Author
Series
Amish classics volume 1
Publisher
Realms
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 285 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With five daughters and no sons, Daed and Maem Blank are anxious to find their girls suitors who might eventually take over their family farm. When news arrives that Charles Beachey, the son of a prominent Amish farmer, will be returning from Ohio with his cousin Frederick, they are hopeful that the young men might be good matches for their daughters. The oldest daughter, Jane, starts courting Charles, a well-mannered and very respectful young man,...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Originally published in 1914, this charming and original sequel to the novels of Jane Austen intertwines the lives of the most beloved characters from all six Austen novels with new characters of the author's own devising. Inventive matchmaking leads numerous pairs of lovers through the inevitable (and entertaining) difficulties they must encounter before they are united in the end. The first Jane Austen sequel ever written!--From publisher description....
Author
Series
Jane Austen library volume 3
Pub. Date
1985
Physical Desc
39 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
442 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The text of Jane Austen's classic tale is accompanied by an introduction to the author's life and work and explanatory notes discussing the novel's historical context, language, characters, and themes.
Author
Series
Jane Austen library volume 4
Pub. Date
1985
Physical Desc
164 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xxxv, 742 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
This volume is an annotated edition of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility," complete with more than 2,000 annotations that include definitions and clarifications, multiple maps, historical context, and more.
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
532 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In her notes and introduction to this final volume in Harvard's annotated Austen series, Deidre Shauna Lynch outlines the critical disagreements Mansfield Park has sparked and suggests that Austen's design in writing the novel was to highlight, not downplay, the conflicted feelings its plot and heroine can inspire.--