Jane Austen
83) Darcy's story
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
When Elizabeth Bennet first met Mr. Darcy, she found him proud, distant, and rude, despite the other ladies' admiration of his estate in Derbyshire and ten thousand pounds a year. But what was Mr. Darcy thinking? The story of Elizabeth Bennet's blossoming romance with "haughty, reserved, and fastidious" Fitzwilliam Darcy has enchanted readers for nearly two centuries. Yet, Mr. Darcy has always remained an intriguing enigma, his thoughts, feelings,...
84) Lola at last
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2023
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Move over, Elizabeth Bennet. The most infamous Bennet sister is here to tell her story. Join Lola Barnes, a.k.a. a modern Lydia Bennet, at the beginning of a summer gone truly wrong: where a boat party-turned-fiery-fiasco ends with the ship, Lola's summer plans, and her reputation truly sunk. (The boat was barely on fire, for the record--and all the partygoers were just fine.) Luckily, this disaster of a summer has another thing in store for her:...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Charlotte Collins, née Lucas, is the respectable wife of Hunsford's vicar, and sees to her duties by rote: keeping house, caring for their adorable daughter, visiting parishioners, and patiently tolerating the lectures of her awkward husband and his condescending patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Intelligent, pragmatic, and anxious to escape the shame of spinsterhood, Charlotte chose this life, an inevitable one so socially acceptable that its...
Author
Publisher
Sweet Cherry Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
An illustrated adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel - at an easy-to-read level for readers of all ages! Elinor and Marianne Dashwood have very different ideas about love. Marianne wants to be swept off her feet. Her sensible sister Elinor's feet are always firmly on the ground. But when their father dies and they are forced to move to a new home, will there even be room for love at all?
Author
Publisher
Third State Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Lissie is the middle of three sisters, orphaned and taken in by their aunt and uncle. Both she and her older sister, Jenny, work in the family restaurant while pursuing their education and career dreams. When Lissie accidentally serves a dish containing shellfish paste to an allergic customer, she runs afoul of the wealthy Lin family. Their golden boy, Preston, star swimmer and Stanford Ph.D. student, is as handsome as he is self-righteous. Lissie...
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 9
Publisher
A Feiwel and Friends Book, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Oliver Bennet, trapped by societal expectations to live as female, discovers the possibility of love and freedom when he forms a connection with Darcy, but is faced with the choice of living a secure but inauthentic life or risking everything for true self-expression and love.
Author
Publisher
RB Large Print
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This takes readers back into the imagined family of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Their musical daughter Alethea makes a disastrous marriage to a man whose charming manners conceal an unpleasant nature. Flinging caution to the winds, she flees her marital home, masquerading as a gentleman, and accompanied only by her redoubtable maid, Figgins, she sets off for Venice to take refuge with her sister Camilla. But events--always dramatic and sometimes...
Author
Publisher
Wander, an imprint of Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After moving to Northfield with her family in 1984, Elyse Nebbit faces the challenge of finding her place in a new school, one dominated by social status and Friday night football. When Elyse's effortlessly beautiful older sister Jayne starts dating Charlie Bingley, the captain of the school football team, Elyse finds herself curious about Charlie's popular and brooding best friend, Billy Fitz. Elyse's body insecurities eventually complicate her relationship...
95) Emma
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her matchmaking creates problems for herself and others.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In this unique take on Jane Austen's Persuasion, Amanda Grange looks at love and loss through the eyes of Captain Wentworth. Joining the Navy during the Napoleonic Wars is a chance for Frederick Wentworth to find glory and make his fortune. Never does he think that during his shore leave in Somerset he will fall in love. But while attending a private ball, he meets the graceful and intelligent Miss Anne Elliot -- and his heart is lost.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000, 1995.
Language
English
Description
Anne Elliot will do anything to get Captain Wentworth now that he is interested in Louisa Musgrove.
Anne Elliott has spent over seven years regretting being persuaded to reject the young Captain Wentworth's proposal. Now she learns he has returned from many years at sea, a handsome and eligible catch. Despite misunderstandings, a series of mismatches and the stifling etiquette of social arrangements, can they convince each other that their love still...
100) Pride & prejudice
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of the original by Jane Austen that tells of Lizzy Bennet and her loveable, eccentric family as they navigate through tricky British social circles.