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Friends can be teachers, too. Readers discover this by following along as a relatable narrator learns important things from friends, including how to share and how to play a new game. The age-appropriate text makes it possible for early learners to read this delightful story on t...

"Everyone knows the story of Elizabeth and Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. At the conclusion of Jane Austen's classic novel, sister Mary, bookish and awkward, is sentenced to a provincial existence. Twenty years after Austen's novel closes, Mary is released from the stultif...

"When Mr. Collins dies after just four years of marriage, Charlotte is lost. While not exactly heartbroken, she will soon have to quit the parsonage that has become her home. In desperate need of support, she writes to her best friend, Lizzie. Unable to leave Pemberley, Lizzie se...

"A lively Southern retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion, featuring Lucy Crawford, who is thrown back into the path of her first love while on a quest to save her beloved family home"-- Provided by publisher.

The story of the five Bennett sisters living in early 19th century England. Their mother is scheming to make prestigious marriages for them. Focuses on Elizabeth Bennett, who mistakenly finds the rich Mr. Darcy an oaf, even as he sets all the other fair maidens' hearts aflutter.

At the age of ten, shy, vulnerable Fanny Price leaves behind her impoverished family in Portsmouth to go and live with her rich relatives at Mansfield Park. Growing up with her cousins Tom, Edmund, Maria and Julia, she is aware that she is different from them and that her place ...

Four bestselling authors channel the wit and wisdom of Jane Austen - had she believed in reincarnation and vampires ... Mary Balogh's Almost Persuaded reunites former lovers from beyond the veil. In Northanger Castle by Colleen Gleason, an obsession with Gothic novels prepares a ...

"From the bestselling author of Pride, Prejudice, and Cheese Grits comes a new and comical contemporary take on the perennial Jane Austen classic, Emma. Caroline Ashley is a journalist on the rise at The Washington Post until the sudden death of her father brings her back to Thor...

"This hilarious Southern retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice tells the story of two hard-headed Civil war historians who find that first impressions can be deceiving. Shelby Roswell, a Civil War historian and professor, is on the fast track to tenure--that is, until he...

"A lively Southern retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion, featuring Lucy Crawford, who is thrown back into the path of her first love while on a quest to save her beloved family home. Lucy Crawford is part of a wealthy, well-respected Southern family with a long local history. B...

"What if Mary Bennet's life took a different path from that laid out for her in Pride and Prejudice? What if the frustrated intellectual of the Bennet family, the marginalized middle daughter, the plain girl who takes refuge in her books, eventually found the fulfillment enjoyed ...

Four bestselling authors channel the wit and wisdom of Jane Austen-- had she believed in reincarnation and vampires. Mary Balogh's Almost Persuaded reunites former lovers from beyond the veil. In Northanger Castle by Colleen Gleason, an obsession with Gothic novels prepares a you...

"From teenage girls waiting to dance their very first ball, to mothers hunting for rich husbands for their daughters, Jane Austen's love stories are famous throughout the world. This collection of adaptations of all six novels -- and one shorter tale -- with beautiful illustratio...

This collection of classic garden writing presents the garden as place of solace in our busy world, a retreat for lovers, and even an earthly paradise. Bringing together a wide range of voices from across the centuries and around the globe - from Pliny in first-century Italy to R...

1820. Mary Dorothea Knatchbull is living under the sole charge of her widowed father, Sir Edward - a man of strict principles and high Christian values. But when her father marries Miss Fanny Knight of Godmersham Park, Mary's life is suddenly changed. Her new stepmother comes fro...

A gorgeous new pocket-sized special edition bound in real cloth with sprayed edges and a ribbon marker to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth in 2025. The designs are inspired by Jane Austen's life and work. With psychological insight and sparkling wit, Jane Au...

"The overlooked middle sister in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice casts off her prim exterior and takes center stage in this fresh retelling of the classic novel. I will tell you the story of how I knew myself to be plain and therefore devoid of the one virtue which it behooves ...

"This hilarious Southern retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice tells the story of two hard-headed Civil War historians who find that their first impressions can be deceiving"-- Provided by publisher.

In British Women Poets of the Romantic Era Paula R. Feldman introduces modern readers to the range and diversity of women's poetic expression, making available more texts by more women poets of the Romantic era than have ever been collected in a single book in the twentieth centu...

Presents biographical profiles of twenty-eight anthropologists and archaeologists, including Jane Goodall, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Leakey.