Jane Austen

Item #: UD9282
Price: $9.99
Presumably, one could replace "twenty-nine" in the quotation above with "thirty-nine" or, ahem, substantially higher numbers, right? We think so. And we love the Jane Austen Birthday Bookfor keeping track of loved ones' birthdays the old-fashioned way. Elegant illustrations, witty quotes from Austen's letters and novels, and info about each month's birthstone, birth flower, and astrological signs round out this lovely and literary little birthday book.

Item #: UE6872
Price: $13.95
These amusing and engaging books of quotations feature pearls of pithy wisdom from luminaries known for their profound wit and biting humor. Collected from published works as well as personal correspondence, these quips from Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, and Winston Churchill are just as insightful and amusing today as they were when they were first written or uttered. Choose your favorite author (or diplomat), or, better yet, collect all four: These endlessly browsable references are organized by subject, so you'll always have the perfect profound witticism or pointed rejoinder at your fingertips.

Item #: UE9202
Price: $24.95
Clear a special spot on a prominent bookshelf! These sumptuously handsome leather-bound volumes feature striking artwork embossed on their covers, specially designed endpapers, gilded-edged pages, a sewn-in ribbon bookmark, and a scholarly and illuminating introduction to the works. We're offering a variety of classics: Edgar Allan Poe (selected stories and poems), Brothers Grimm (Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales), Homer (Iliad and Odyssey), Mark Twain (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson), Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island, Prince Otto, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped, The Black Arrow, The Master of Ballantrae, and David Balfour), and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and other stories), Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace), Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Northanger Abbey), Charles Dickens(The Adventures of Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations), and The Arabian Nights (translated by Sir Richard Burton). We encourage you to get several of your favorites--they look so nice displayed together!

Item #: UE6322
Price: $79.95
The BBC presents four of Jane Austen's beloved classics as radio recordings in this beautifully winsome boxed set of fourteen CDs. Emma and Mansfield Park are dramatically performed by a full cast; Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility are each read by a single actress (the latter title has been abridged). Prepare to be blissfully enveloped in Regency England, enjoying Austen's shrewd and humorous perspective on society and romance. The CDs together run fourteen and a half hours.

Item #: UE4572
Price: $25.95
From here on out, whenever I meet a man who scoffs at Jane Austen, I will refer him to this delightful memoir. As a doctoral candidate at Columbia University, William Deresiewicz was a devotee of modernist literature who abhorred the romantic sentiment of nineteenth-century British novels. But when his professor assigned Austen's Emma, Deresiewicz's true education began. From the value of the ordinary and the importance of humility to the dangers of perpetual amusement and the power of friendship, the young man discovered astute object lessons woven into Austen's half-dozen novels of love, family, and social convention. As time passed and he applied her keen insight to his own life, he found himself finally evolving into the man he had always hoped to be. What a heartening tale, especially for the Austen detractor in your life!