Catherine Morland, the novel's protagonist, is invited to spend a few days at the former Northanger Abbey, the home of the family of the young Anglican pastor to whom she is engaged and who believes her to be a wealthy heiress. Impressed by the place and even more so by intense readings of horror novels then in vogue, the young woman lives by altering mundane everyday events in the light of imagined atmospheres of terror. A series of misunderstandings, the result of her overexcited imagination, endangers her newly formed romantic relationship, which is also undermined by the discovery of her real economic condition. A celebration of the social initiation rituals of the provincial English bourgeoisie at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this work by Austen does not end with the story of a thwarted passion, but represents a subtle parody of the sentimental novel, and especially of the Gothic novel, which remains highly relevant even today.

Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen is one of the few truly great writers who have managed to break into the hearts and minds of all readers, without exception. Among her many masterpieces, “Pride and Prejudice” is surely the most popular and beloved: the five daughters of the unforgettable Mrs. Bennet, all in search of suitable marital arrangements, provide an opportunity to draw a sparkling and profound picture of life in the English countryside of the late 18th century. The fates of Elizabeth, Jane, Mr. Bingley and the shadowy Mr. Darcy weave an irresistible ballet, a psychological dance that sheds light on the multifaceted impregnability of the human soul, especially when grappling with love or something that resembles love.

Pride and Prejudice

The setting is the lush English countryside. We are at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Three sisters lose their father, coming into financial straits because of their sister-in-law's greed. The chain reactions generated by the sudden poverty will profoundly affect their lives, even in the most private sentimental aspects. Jane Austen builds a powerful emotional current around two of the sisters, using the first, Elinor, as the embodiment of “reason” and the other, Marianne, of “feeling.” The tension between these two equally powerful forces allows Jane Austen to weave an unforgettable story that has been beloved by readers since it was first published two centuries ago in 1811.

Sense and sensibility

Lady Susan Vernon, a beautiful and charming recent widow, visits her brother and sister-in-law, Charles and Catherine, with little advance notice at Churchill, their country residence. Catherine is far from pleased, as Lady Susan had tried to prevent her marriage to Charles and her unwanted guest has been described to her as "the most accomplished coquette in England". Among Lady Susan's conquests in London is the married Mr. Manwaring. Catherine's brother Reginald arrives a week later, and despite Catherine's strong warnings about Lady Susan's character, soon falls under her spell. The provincial town, the measured chatter of drawing rooms, the iron rules and conventions of the petit-bourgeois universe: in Lady Susan the ingredients for entering Austen's extraordinary world are all there.

Lady Susan

Sir Thomas Bertram is the owner of the luxurious Mansfield Park estate, where he lives with his wife Maria and four children. Lady Bertram's sister Frances, on the other hand, is in more dire straits, so much so that she is forced to ask for help from the Bertrams themselves, who agree to take Fanny, their second child, with them. Fanny is nine years old when she arrives in Mansfield Park, and she has a hard time getting used to the difference in customs from her family of origin, although over time her relationships with her “new” family members tend to improve. Affectionate bonds are born with cousins, particularly Edmund. Until Henry Crawford appears. Very easy-going person, especially towards the ladies, and especially in the absence of the landlord. Given the antecedents, the situation can only precipitate.... What about Fanny? Fanny misses no opportunity to feel guilty: if she had accepted Henry's marriage proposal, everything would have had a more orderly and “normal” outcome.

Mansfield Park

Lock Up Your Daughters... Darcy's in Town! Mrs Bennett is on a mission to marry off her five daughters to rich men. Enter, Mr Charles Bingley and his rather fit friend, Darcy. Love, loathing and bittersweet romance follow…

Jane Austen tells the story of Emma Woodhouse, a beautiful, wealthy and intelligent woman who is vain and self-centered; she is not interested in romantic love and therefore believes that she should not marry, although the customs of the society of the time see marriage as a woman's only reason for living. Nevertheless, Emma takes great pleasure in trying to arrange marriages between friends and acquaintances, until a series of misunderstandings, caused by the protagonist's blindness to her own feelings and those of others, leads her to a series of misunderstandings. Jane Austen, writing the novel, said, “I am working on a heroine that no one will like but me,” since Emma, so unbalanced, snobbish and spoiled, is completely different from the other female characters in her works. Still, the character will be able to generate empathy in the reader, and in the end, Emma will be forced to come to grips with reality, in what is an amusing and merciless satire not only of the mores of 19th-century society, but also of human vanity and selfishness.

Emma

Anne Elliot, the novel's protagonist, made a mistake: as a very young girl, barely nineteen, she allowed herself to be persuaded by the opposition of her father, Sir Walter, and the “persuasion” of Lady Russell to break off her engagement to the very young but poor naval officer Frederick Wentworth. Now, at the age of twenty-seven, Anne is alone; what is more, her family's financial fortunes have reversed and her father has been forced to rent out his estate to admiral Croft. But one day the admiral receives a visit from his own brother-in-law, an accomplished and wealthy sea captain: he is Frederick, and this time, eight years later, Anne has her second chance. Austen's last and most mature novel, Persuasion contains an unparalleled portrait of early 19th-century English provincial life and, through the protagonist's thwarted affair, an intense anti-aristocratic polemic.

Persuasion

L'Abbaye de Northanger, l'ancienne demeure médiévale du futur beau-père, enflamme l'imagination de la protagoniste, Catherine Morland, une jeune femme naïvement romantique, nourrie par la lecture de romans gothiques, qui fantasme sur des mystères et des crimes inexistants. Dans ce cadre noir, se déroule une histoire d'amour qui finit bien, où la lumière du bon sens et la banalité de la réalité interviennent pour dissoudre les fantômes et redéfinir les rêves. Écrit en 1797-98, mais publié à titre posthume, ce roman de jeunesse d'Austen contient déjà tous les éléments de sa production de maturité : ce monde aimé et familier de gens attentifs au quotidien et inattentifs à l'histoire, aux prises avec les dots, les mariages, les rentes et les bénéfices, fondé sur la solidité économique, l'affection domestique et la responsabilité des individus, un microcosme que l'auteur sait rendre avec une touche exquise et une ironie mordante.

L'Abbaye de Northanger

Jane Austen est l'un des rares grands écrivains à avoir réussi à pénétrer le cœur et l'esprit de tous les lecteurs, sans exception. Parmi ses nombreux chefs-d'œuvre, « Orgueil et préjugés » est certainement le plus populaire et le plus aimé : les cinq filles de l'inoubliable Mrs Bennet, toutes à la recherche d'un mariage convenable, sont l'occasion de dresser un tableau étincelant et profond de la vie dans la campagne anglaise à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Les destins d'Elizabeth, de Jane, de Mr Bingley et de l'ombrageux Mr Darcy tissent un irrésistible ballet, une danse psychologique qui met en lumière l'imprégnabilité multiforme de l'âme humaine, surtout lorsqu'elle est aux prises avec l'amour ou ce qui y ressemble.

Orgueil et préjugés

Emma, une femme belle, riche et intelligente, vaniteuse et égocentrique, n'est pas intéressée par l'amour romantique et pense donc qu'elle ne doit pas se marier, même si les coutumes de la société de l'époque considèrent le mariage comme la seule raison de vivre d'une femme. Cependant, elle prend beaucoup de plaisir à essayer d'arranger des mariages entre amis et connaissances, jusqu'à ce qu'une série de malentendus, causés par l'aveuglement de la protagoniste à l'égard de ses propres sentiments et de ceux des autres, conduise l'histoire à prendre une tournure proche de la « comédie des malentendus ». Jane Austen, auteur du roman, a déclaré : « Je travaille sur une héroïne que personne n'aimera à part moi », car Emma, si déséquilibrée, snob et gâtée, est complètement différente des autres personnages féminins de ses œuvres. Le personnage sera néanmoins capable de susciter l'empathie du lecteur et, à la fin, Emma sera obligée de se confronter à la réalité, dans ce qui est une satire amusante et impitoyable non seulement des mœurs de la société du XIXe siècle, mais aussi de la vanité et de l'égoïsme de l'homme.

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