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The Easton Press Jane Austen'sPride and Prejudice Delivered to you, Factory Sealed and Shrink Wrapped ~ Never opened, Never read ~ All Easton Press Books feature: Fine, genuine premium leather , specially tanned and hand selected for color, grain and luster. 22kt gold accents deeply impressed on every spine provide a rich, lustrous effect. Spine hubs , the traditional "raised rings," exemplify the look of classic works. Deluxe binder boards , used in premium-quality books, add strength and stability. Intricate original designs , on both covers, are tooled with one-of-a-kind brass dies and golden foil. Original illustrations showcase the works of renowned artists, from William Blake to Rockwell Kent. Moire endleaves add stability to the binding, and crisp, shimmering elegance. Satin-ribbon pagemarkers hold your place with style. Finishing cap cords strengthen outer spines and two-tone headbands handsomely conceal the inner spines from view. Specially milled, acid-neutral paper gives permanence and durability. Meticulous type design makes each page attractive and easy to read. Gilded page edges add beauty and protect your books, sealing out dust and humidity. Sewn pages and concealed muslin joints provide strength and allow pages to lie flat. Rest assured, your investment will be protected in bubble wrap and carefully shipped in a sturdy box. Please check out my other Easton Press listings! ____________________________________________________________________ Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose realism , biting social commentary and masterful use of free indirect speech , burlesque , and irony have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature .Austen lived her entire life as part of a small and close-knit family located on the lower fringes of English gentry . She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. The steadfast support of her family was critical to Austen's development as a professional writer. Austen's artistic apprenticeship lasted from her teenage years until she was about thirty-five years old. During this period, she experimented with various literary forms, including the epistolary novel which she tried and then abandoned, and wrote and extensively revised three major novels and began a fourth. From 1811 until 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), she achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion , both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon , but died before completing it.Austen's works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the eighteenth century and are part of the transition to nineteenth-century realism. Austen's plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security. Like those of Samuel Johnson , one of the strongest influences on her writing, her works are concerned with moral issues.During Austen's lifetime, because she chose to publish anonymously, her works brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews. Through the mid-nineteenth century, her novels were admired only by members of the literary elite. However, the publication of her nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1869 introduced her to a wider public as an appealing personality and kindled popular interest in her works. By the 1940s, Austen was widely accepted in academia as a "great English writer". The second half of the twentieth century saw a proliferation of Austen scholarship, which explored many aspects of her novels: artistic, ideological, and historical. In popular culture, a Janeite fan culture has developed, centred on Austen's life, her works, and t... 
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