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Informationen zum Autor Jane Austen was born on December 16! 1775 at Steventon near Basingstoke! the seventh child of the rector of the parish. She lived with her family at Steventon until they moved to Bath when her father retired in 1801. After his death in 1805! she moved around with her mother; in 1809! they settled in Chawton! near Alton! Hampshire. Here she remained! except for a few visits to London! until in May 1817 she moved to Winchester to be near her doctor. There she died on July 18! 1817. As a girl Jane Austen wrote stories! including burlesques of popular romances. Her works were only published after much revision! four novels being published in her lifetime. These are Sense and Sensibility (1811)! Pride and Prejudice (1813)! Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Two other novels! Northanger Abbey and Persuasion! were published posthumously in 1818 with a biographical notice by her brother! Henry Austen! the first formal announcement of her authorship. Persuasion was written in a race against failing health in 1815-16. She also left two earlier compositions! a short epistolary novel! Lady Susan! and an unfinished novel! The Watsons. At the time of her death! she was working on a new novel! Sanditon! a fragmentary draft of which survives. Klappentext Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading. Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all featuring carefully graded language to make them accessible to learners of all abilities. Through the imagination of some of the world's greatest authors, the English language comes to life in pages of our Readers. Students have the pleasure and satisfaction of reading these stories in English, and at the same time develop a broader vocabulary, greater comprehension and reading fluency, improved grammar, and greater confidence and ability to express themselves. Find out more at english.com/readers Zusammenfassung Visiting the fashionable city of Bath, 17-year-old Catherine Morland looks for the excitement she finds in romantic fiction. She makes friends and falls in love. But when she is invited to Northanger Abbey, she experiences desperate unhappiness. What is real, and what is the product of her wild imagination?...
