Jon Spence's fascinating biography of Jane Austen paints an intimate portrait of the much-loved novelist. Spence's meticulous research has, perhaps most notably, uncovered evidence that Austen and the charming young Irishman Tom Lefroy fell in love at the age of twenty and that the relationship inspired Pride and Prejudice, one of the most celebrated works of fiction ever written. Becoming Jane Austen gives the fullest account we have of the romance, which was more serious and more enduring than previously believed. Seeing this love story in the context of Jane Austen's whole life enables us to appreciate the profound effect the relationship had on her art and on subsequent choices that she made in her life. Full of insight and with an attentive eye for detail, Spence explores Jane Austen's emotional attachments and the personal influences that shaped her as a novelist. His elegant narrative provides a point of entry into Jane Austen's world as she herself perceived and experienced it. It is a world familiar to us from her novels, but in Becoming Jane Austen, Austen herself is the heroine.

At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, "Persuasion" is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all, it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.

Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marriage for herself, while attempting to push her daughter into a dismal match. A magnificently crafted novel of Regency manners and mores that will delight Austen enthusiasts with its wit and elegant expression.

Begun in 1811 at the height of Jane Austen's writing powers and published in 1814, "Mansfield Park" marks a conscious break from the tone of her first three novels, "Northanger Abbey", "Sense and Sensibility", and "Pride and Prejudice", the last of which Austen came to see as 'rather too light.' Fanny Price is unlike any of Austen's previous heroines, a girl from a poor family brought up in a splendid country house and possessed of a vast reserve of moral fortitude and imperturbability. She is very different from Elizabeth Bennet, but is the product of the same inspired imagination.

《彭伯里庄园》是埃玛・坦南特为英国著名女作家简・奥斯汀（1775――1817）的代表作《傲慢与偏见）所作的续集，在英国近几年来的名著续集出版热中，属佼佼者，仅在英国国内发行量已超过5万册。 本续集从人物性格、语言到情节发展等各方面都忠实于原作，连主题也是紧紧围绕着“傲慢与偏见”展开，但故事叙述完整精巧，可独立成书。因此，喜欢原作的读者读来会亲切如晤老友，而不熟悉原作者亦不会有突兀感，甚至还可藉此领略到原著的一些神韵。 伊丽莎白和达西结婚一年来，幸福和美，唯一的遗憾是伊丽莎白一直没有怀孕。照彭伯里的老规矩，如果达西无子嗣，庄园就得传给远亲罗珀少爷。 圣诞将临，伊丽莎白请寡居的母亲、两个待嫁的妹妹和姐姐简一家来彭伯里过节。达西则请来冷傲的姨母和曾与之订婚的表妹，姨母还带着喜欢卖弄学问、动辄以主人自居的罗珀少爷。达西的妹妹乔治娅娜未经庄园女主人允许，向曾追求过达西、对伊丽莎白满怀醋意的宾格利小姐发出了邀请。另外，达西为讨妻子欢心，主动派车将住在附近的伊丽莎白的舅父舅母和她妹妹莉迪娅一家五口接来游园，而不计妻妹夫威克姆曾诱拐自己亲妹妹，后又几乎骗得伊丽莎白的感情。更热闹的是，贝内特太太的追求者、冒充上校的基奇纳也瘸着腿前来造访。关系错综复杂的这一大帮人又因大雪封路全被窝在了彭伯里，一住就是好几天。几天里，矛盾丛生，波澜迭起。 这期间，伊丽莎白连听说带猜测，认定达西在村里有个孩子，是他和已死去的法国情人所生，心生怨怒。达西否认不成，反被妻子言语所伤，加上贝内特太太及其追求者等人言行粗鄙局鲁，达西傲然而去。伊丽莎白深思之后，决定远离庄园去做教师。 经过一番周折，达西夫妇消除了误解，和好如初，而且伊丽莎白也欣喜地发现自己已身怀有孕。彭伯里庄园重旧平静。