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ماما دومًا بجانبي - Board Book Arabic by عبير بلان - 2009 ماما دومًا بجانبي - Board Book Arabic by عبير بلان - 2009
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SpecificationsAuthor 1 عبير بلانBook Description ماما دومًا بجانب الطفل طالما هو بحاجة إليها. هذا كتاب بسيط وممتع يقوّي ثقة الطفل بنفسه، كما يقوّي تعلّقه الصحّي والإيجابي بأمّه.Format Board BookCountry of Origin United Arab Emirates UAEISBN-13 9789948037477Language ArabicNumber of Pages 24Publication Date 2009View Full Specifications SpecificationsAuthor 1 عبير بلانBook Description ماما دومًا بجانب الطفل طالما هو بحاجة إليها. هذا كتاب بسيط وممتع يقوّي ثقة الطفل بنفسه، كما يقوّي تعلّقه الصحّي والإيجابي بأمّه.Format Board BookCountry of Origin United Arab Emirates UAEISBN-13 9789948037477Language ArabicNumber of Pages 24Publication Date 2009View Full Specifications
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Revelations: Assassins Creed Book 4 - Paperback English by Oliver Bowden - 40871 Revelations: Assassins Creed Book 4 - Paperback English by Oliver Bowden - 40871
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SpecificationsAbout the Author Oliver Bowden is the pen-name of an acclaimed novelist. He has written all the Assassins Creed titles.Author 1 Oliver BowdenFormat PaperbackEdition Number 1ISBN-13 9780241951736Language EnglishNumber of Pages 513Publication Date 40871View Full Specifications SpecificationsAbout the Author Oliver Bowden is the pen-name of an acclaimed novelist. He has written all the Assassins Creed titles.Author 1 Oliver BowdenFormat PaperbackEdition Number 1ISBN-13 9780241951736Language EnglishNumber of Pages 513Publication Date 40871View Full Specifications
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The Snail And The Whale - Paperback English by Julia Donaldson - 21/04/2016 The Snail And The Whale - Paperback English by Julia Donaldson - 21/04/2016
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SpecificationsAbout the Author Julia Donaldson is the outrageously talented prize-winning author of the worlds best-loved picture books and was the 2011-2013 UK Childrens Laureate. Her books include Room on the Broom What the Ladybird Heard and the modern classic The Gruffalo which has sold over 13.5 million copies worldwide and has been translated into over sixty languages. Julia also writes fiction as well as poems plays and songs and her brilliant live childrens shows are always in demand. Julia and her husband Malcolm divide their time between Sussex and Edinburgh.Author 1 Julia DonaldsonFormat PaperbackEdition Number Main Market Ed. EditionEditorial Review "Along with providing a resonant environmental message the story lightly demonstrates that friendships come in all shapes and sizes. Publishers Weekly starred review"ISBN-10 1509812520ISBN-13 9781509812523Language EnglishView Full Specifications SpecificationsAbout the Author Julia Donaldson is the outrageously talented prize-winning author of the worlds best-loved picture books and was the 2011-2013 UK Childrens Laureate. Her books include Room on the Broom What the Ladybird Heard and the modern classic The Gruffalo which has sold over 13.5 million copies worldwide and has been translated into over sixty languages. Julia also writes fiction as well as poems plays and songs and her brilliant live childrens shows are always in demand. Julia and her husband Malcolm divide their time between Sussex and Edinburgh.Author 1 Julia DonaldsonFormat PaperbackEdition Number Main Market Ed. EditionEditorial Review "Along with providing a resonant environmental message the story lightly demonstrates that friendships come in all shapes and sizes. Publishers Weekly starred review"ISBN-10 1509812520ISBN-13 9781509812523Language EnglishView Full Specifications
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The Hunger Games Trilogy : 3 Book Set Paperback English by Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games Trilogy : 3 Book Set Paperback English by Suzanne Collins
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SpecificationsAuthor 1 Suzanne CollinsBook Description Set in a dark vision of the near future a terrifying reality TVGrade NewISBN-13 9781407191287Language English SpecificationsAuthor 1 Suzanne CollinsBook Description Set in a dark vision of the near future a terrifying reality TVGrade NewISBN-13 9781407191287Language English
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Body In The Library - Paperback Body In The Library - Paperback
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SpecificationsAuthor 1 Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackISBN-13 6281072055721Language ArabicPublisher Jarir Book Shop Saudi SpecificationsAuthor 1 Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackISBN-13 6281072055721Language ArabicPublisher Jarir Book Shop Saudi
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SpecificationsAbout the Author Stephen King has been described by the Guardian as one of the greatest storytellers of our time by the Mirror as a genius and by The Sunday Times as one of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel. In 2003 he was given the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives with his wife the novelist Tabitha King for most of the year in Maine USA.Author 1 Stephen King Format PaperbackEditorial Review Obviously a masterpiece probably the best supernatural novel in a hundred years Peter Straub As a storyteller he is up there in the Dickens class The TimesISBN-10 1444720724ISBN-13 9781444720723Language EnglishNumber of Pages 512View Full Specifications SpecificationsAbout the Author Stephen King has been described by the Guardian as one of the greatest storytellers of our time by the Mirror as a genius and by The Sunday Times as one of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel. In 2003 he was given the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives with his wife the novelist Tabitha King for most of the year in Maine USA.Author 1 Stephen King Format PaperbackEditorial Review Obviously a masterpiece probably the best supernatural novel in a hundred years Peter Straub As a storyteller he is up there in the Dickens class The TimesISBN-10 1444720724ISBN-13 9781444720723Language EnglishNumber of Pages 512View Full Specifications
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Naruto Volume 62 - Paperback English by Kishimoto Masashi - 8/6/2013 Naruto Volume 62 - Paperback English by Kishimoto Masashi - 8/6/2013
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SpecificationsAuthor 1 Kishimoto MasashiFormat PaperbackISBN-13 9781421556192Language EnglishParental Rating 12+Publication Date 8/6/2013Publisher Ingram International SpecificationsAuthor 1 Kishimoto MasashiFormat PaperbackISBN-13 9781421556192Language EnglishParental Rating 12+Publication Date 8/6/2013Publisher Ingram International
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The Stand - Paperback English by Stephen King - 12/05/2011 The Stand - Paperback English by Stephen King - 12/05/2011
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SpecificationsAbout the Author Stephen King has written some forty books and novellas including CARRIE THE STAND and RITA HAYWORTH AND SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION `from the collection DIFFERENT SEASONS` BAG OF BONES ON WRITING and most recently CELL LISEY`S STORY and DUMA KEY. He wrote several novels under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman including BLAZE `June 2007`. He won America`s prestigious National Book Award and was voted Grand Master in the 2007 Edgar Allen Poe awards. He lives with his wife novelist Tabitha King in Maine USA.Author 1 Stephen KingFormat PaperbackEditorial Review A writer of excellence.King is one of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel Sunday Times King is the greatest popular novelist of our day comparable to Dickens. Toby Litt GuardianISBN-10 1444720732ISBN-13 9781444720730Language EnglishNumber of Pages 1344View Full Specifications SpecificationsAbout the Author Stephen King has written some forty books and novellas including CARRIE THE STAND and RITA HAYWORTH AND SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION `from the collection DIFFERENT SEASONS` BAG OF BONES ON WRITING and most recently CELL LISEY`S STORY and DUMA KEY. He wrote several novels under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman including BLAZE `June 2007`. He won America`s prestigious National Book Award and was voted Grand Master in the 2007 Edgar Allen Poe awards. He lives with his wife novelist Tabitha King in Maine USA.Author 1 Stephen KingFormat PaperbackEditorial Review A writer of excellence.King is one of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel Sunday Times King is the greatest popular novelist of our day comparable to Dickens. Toby Litt GuardianISBN-10 1444720732ISBN-13 9781444720730Language EnglishNumber of Pages 1344View Full Specifications
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40 Arbaoon Paperback 40 Arbaoon Paperback
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SpecificationsAuthor 1 Ahmed ShaqireeISBN-13 9786140126510Language ArabicNumber of Pages 291Publisher Arab Scientific publishers inc SpecificationsAuthor 1 Ahmed ShaqireeISBN-13 9786140126510Language ArabicNumber of Pages 291Publisher Arab Scientific publishers inc
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Eleanor & Park Paperback English by Rainbow Rowell - 2013 Eleanor & Park Paperback English by Rainbow Rowell - 2013
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SpecificationsAbout the Author Rainbow Rowell writes books about people who talk a lot. And people who feel like theyre screwing up. And people who fall in love. When shes not writing Rainbow is reading comic books planning Disney World trips and arguing about things that dont really matter in the big scheme of things. She lives in Nebraska with her husband and two sons.Author 1 Rainbow RowellBook Description Eleanor and ParkFormat PaperbackEdition Number 0Editorial Review Reminded me not just what its like to be young and in love but what its like to be young and in love with a book -- John Green author of THE FAULT IN OUR STARS The pure fear-laced yet steadily maturing relationship Eleanor and Park develop is urgent and breathtaking and of course heartbreaking too BOOKLIST starred review I dont believe I have conveyed even a fraction of how utterly fantastic it was and all I can do is prompt you to grab a copy and brace yourself GUARDIAN ONLINE My only problem with this book was that I finished it. And I knew I wanted to keep it in my life always Jenny Bird for Forever Young Adult This sexy smart tender romance thrums with punk rock and true love Gayle Forman bestselling author of If I Stay Rowell keeps things surprising and the solution - imperfect but believable maintains the novels delicate balance of light and dark Publishers Weekly starred reviewISBN-10 1409120546ISBN-13 9781409120544View Full Specifications SpecificationsAbout the Author Rainbow Rowell writes books about people who talk a lot. And people who feel like theyre screwing up. And people who fall in love. When shes not writing Rainbow is reading comic books planning Disney World trips and arguing about things that dont really matter in the big scheme of things. She lives in Nebraska with her husband and two sons.Author 1 Rainbow RowellBook Description Eleanor and ParkFormat PaperbackEdition Number 0Editorial Review Reminded me not just what its like to be young and in love but what its like to be young and in love with a book -- John Green author of THE FAULT IN OUR STARS The pure fear-laced yet steadily maturing relationship Eleanor and Park develop is urgent and breathtaking and of course heartbreaking too BOOKLIST starred review I dont believe I have conveyed even a fraction of how utterly fantastic it was and all I can do is prompt you to grab a copy and brace yourself GUARDIAN ONLINE My only problem with this book was that I finished it. And I knew I wanted to keep it in my life always Jenny Bird for Forever Young Adult This sexy smart tender romance thrums with punk rock and true love Gayle Forman bestselling author of If I Stay Rowell keeps things surprising and the solution - imperfect but believable maintains the novels delicate balance of light and dark Publishers Weekly starred reviewISBN-10 1409120546ISBN-13 9781409120544View Full Specifications
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House of Leaves - Paperback English by Mark Z. Danielewski - 07/03/2000 House of Leaves - Paperback English by Mark Z. Danielewski - 07/03/2000
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SpecificationsAbout the Author Mark Z. Danielewski was born in New York City and lives in Los Angeles. He is the author of the award-winning and bestselling novel House of Leaves National Book Award finalist Only Revolutions and the novella The Fifty Year Sword which was performed on Halloween three years in a row at REDCAT. His books have been translated into multiple languages. In May 2015 Pantheon released The Familiar Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May the first installment of his 27-volume novel about a young girl who finds a kitten. In their review of TFv1 the New York Times declared Danielewski "Americas foremost literary Magus . . . He transmutes the pages of base books into rare new forms and formats."Author 1 Mark Z. DanielewskiFormat PaperbackEdition Number 2Editorial Review "A great novel. A phenomenal debut. Thrillingly alive sublimely creepy distresingly scary breathtakingly intelligent - it renders most other fiction meaningless. One can imagine Pynchon and Ballard and Stephen King and David Foster Wallace bowing at Marks feet choking with astonishment surprise laughter and awe. I feel privileged to be among its first readers. Will I ever recover?" -- Bret Easton Ellis "Genre-defying ... a novel in which something is always lurking just out of sight ... at once a genuinely scary chiller a satire on the business of criticism and a meditation on the way we read." Observer "This demonically brilliant book is impossible to ignore put down or persuasively conclude reading. In fact when you purchase your copy you may reach a certain page and find me there reduced in size like Vincent Price in The Fly still trapped in the web of its malicious beautiful pages." Jonathan Lethem "Superbly inventive ... a rare debut: genuinely exciting." Guardian "There is a core of dark power in House of Leaves and a sense of return to the great dark matter of American literature: the haunted houses of Hawthorne Poe and Lovecraft ... one of the few fictions genuinely to approach the nightmarish." Independent --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.ISBN-10 0375703764ISBN-13 9780375703768Language EnglishView Full Specifications SpecificationsAbout the Author Mark Z. Danielewski was born in New York City and lives in Los Angeles. He is the author of the award-winning and bestselling novel House of Leaves National Book Award finalist Only Revolutions and the novella The Fifty Year Sword which was performed on Halloween three years in a row at REDCAT. His books have been translated into multiple languages. In May 2015 Pantheon released The Familiar Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May the first installment of his 27-volume novel about a young girl who finds a kitten. In their review of TFv1 the New York Times declared Danielewski "Americas foremost literary Magus . . . He transmutes the pages of base books into rare new forms and formats."Author 1 Mark Z. DanielewskiFormat PaperbackEdition Number 2Editorial Review "A great novel. A phenomenal debut. Thrillingly alive sublimely creepy distresingly scary breathtakingly intelligent - it renders most other fiction meaningless. One can imagine Pynchon and Ballard and Stephen King and David Foster Wallace bowing at Marks feet choking with astonishment surprise laughter and awe. I feel privileged to be among its first readers. Will I ever recover?" -- Bret Easton Ellis "Genre-defying ... a novel in which something is always lurking just out of sight ... at once a genuinely scary chiller a satire on the business of criticism and a meditation on the way we read." Observer "This demonically brilliant book is impossible to ignore put down or persuasively conclude reading. In fact when you purchase your copy you may reach a certain page and find me there reduced in size like Vincent Price in The Fly still trapped in the web of its malicious beautiful pages." Jonathan Lethem "Superbly inventive ... a rare debut: genuinely exciting." Guardian "There is a core of dark power in House of Leaves and a sense of return to the great dark matter of American literature: the haunted houses of Hawthorne Poe and Lovecraft ... one of the few fictions genuinely to approach the nightmarish." Independent --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.ISBN-10 0375703764ISBN-13 9780375703768Language EnglishView Full Specifications
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Blind Mans Garden - Paperback English by Nadeem Aslam Blind Mans Garden - Paperback English by Nadeem Aslam
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Paris for One and Other Stories - Hardcover English by Jojo Moyes - 18/10/2016 Paris for One and Other Stories - Hardcover English by Jojo Moyes - 18/10/2016
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SpecificationsAbout the Author Jojo Moyes is a British novelist. Moyes studied at Royal Holloway University of London. She won a bursary financed by The Independent newspaper to study journalism at City University and subsequently worked for The Independent for 10 years. In 2001 she became a full time novelist. Moyes novel Foreign Fruit won the Romantic Novelists Association RNA Romantic Novel of the Year in 2004.Author 1 Jojo MoyesFormat HardcoverEdition Number 1Editorial Review Moyes is in fine cheeky form in this collection of short fiction deploying the wit and charm that animates Me Before You and her other popular novels. The title novella offers a vicarious jolt of Parisian romance while shorter stories deliver pithy insights into the joys and woes of marriage ending with delightful twists.” --People “An old-fashioned feel-good love story. . . ["Paris for One" is] as light as a French pastry. It will make you smile and even maybe sigh. It’s as if Moyes has booked a vacation and is taking us along. To Paris. Amour! . . . Think of these short fictions as palate cleansers after the sweet tasty Parisian treat Moyes so deliciously serves up.” –USA Today “Paris for One and Other Stories. . . [is] dreamy escapism a book you can curl up with and easily finish over a weekend with or without a glass of wine.” –Miami HeraldISBN-10 735221073ISBN-13 9780735221079Language EnglishView Full Specifications SpecificationsAbout the Author Jojo Moyes is a British novelist. Moyes studied at Royal Holloway University of London. She won a bursary financed by The Independent newspaper to study journalism at City University and subsequently worked for The Independent for 10 years. In 2001 she became a full time novelist. Moyes novel Foreign Fruit won the Romantic Novelists Association RNA Romantic Novel of the Year in 2004.Author 1 Jojo MoyesFormat HardcoverEdition Number 1Editorial Review Moyes is in fine cheeky form in this collection of short fiction deploying the wit and charm that animates Me Before You and her other popular novels. The title novella offers a vicarious jolt of Parisian romance while shorter stories deliver pithy insights into the joys and woes of marriage ending with delightful twists.” --People “An old-fashioned feel-good love story. . . ["Paris for One" is] as light as a French pastry. It will make you smile and even maybe sigh. It’s as if Moyes has booked a vacation and is taking us along. To Paris. Amour! . . . Think of these short fictions as palate cleansers after the sweet tasty Parisian treat Moyes so deliciously serves up.” –USA Today “Paris for One and Other Stories. . . [is] dreamy escapism a book you can curl up with and easily finish over a weekend with or without a glass of wine.” –Miami HeraldISBN-10 735221073ISBN-13 9780735221079Language EnglishView Full Specifications
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SpecificationsAuthor 1 Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackISBN-13 6281072079338Language ArabicPublisher The University Book Shop - Abu Dhabi SpecificationsAuthor 1 Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackISBN-13 6281072079338Language ArabicPublisher The University Book Shop - Abu Dhabi
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Dork Diaries Paperback English by Rachel Renee Russell - 01 December 2013 Dork Diaries Paperback English by Rachel Renee Russell - 01 December 2013
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SpecificationsAuthor 1 Rachel Renee RussellISBN-10 085707475XISBN-13 9780857074751Language EnglishNumber of Pages 282Publication Date 01 December 2013Publisher Simon And Schuster SpecificationsAuthor 1 Rachel Renee RussellISBN-10 085707475XISBN-13 9780857074751Language EnglishNumber of Pages 282Publication Date 01 December 2013Publisher Simon And Schuster
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SpecificationsAbout the Author Though the domain of Jane Austen’s novels was as circumscribed as her life her caustic wit and keen observation made her the equal of the greatest novelists in any language. Born the seventh child of the rector of Steventon Hampshire on December 16 1775 she was educated mainly at home. At an early age she began writing sketches and satires of popular novels for her family’s entertainment. As a clergyman’s daughter from a well-connected family she had an ample opportunity to study the habits of the middle class the gentry and the aristocracy. At twenty-one she began a novel called “The First Impressions” an early version of Pride and Prejudice. In 1801 on her father’s retirement the family moved to the fashionable resort of Bath. Two years later she sold the first version of Northanger Abby to a London publisher but the first of her novels to appear was Sense and Sensibility published at her own expense in 1811. It was followed by Pride and Prejudice 1813 Mansfield Park 1814 and Emma 1815. After her father died in 1805 the family first moved to Southampton then to Chawton Cottage in Hampshire. Despite this relative retirement Jane Austen was still in touch with a wider world mainly through her brothers; one had become a very rich country gentleman another a London banker and two were naval officers. Though her many novels were published anonymously she had many early and devoted readers among them the Prince Regent and Sir Walter Scott. In 1816 in declining health Austen wrote Persuasion and revised Northanger Abby Her last work Sandition was left unfinished at her death on July 18 1817. She was buried in Winchester Cathedral. Austen’s identity as an author was announced to the world posthumously by her brother Henry who supervised the publication of Northanger Abby and Persuasion in 1818.Author 1 Jane AustenFormat PaperbackEdition Number Revised EditionEditorial Review Stevenson has read all of Austens novels for audiobook in abridged or unabridged versions and her experience shows in this delightful production. Though dominated by the intelligent sweet voice of Anne Elliot—the least favored but most worthy of three daughters in a family with an old name but declining fortunes—Stevenson provides other characters with memorable voices as well. She reads Annes haughty fathers lines with a mixture of stuffiness and bluster and Annes sisters are portrayed with a hilariously flighty breathy register that makes Austens contempt for them palpable. Annes voice is mostly measured and reasonable—an expression of her strong mind and spirit—but Stevenson imbues her speech with wonderful shades of passion as Anne is reacquainted with Capt. Wentworth whom she has continued to love despite being forced years before to reject him over status issues. Listening to Stevenson as Anne describe a sudden encounter with Wentworth one hardly needs Austens description of how Anne grows faint—Stevensons perfectly judged and deeply felt reading has already shown that she must have. Even those who have read Austens novels will find themselves loving this book all over again with Stevensons evocative rendition ringing richly in their ears.ISBN-10 1853260568ISBN-13 9781853260568Language EnglishView Full Specifications SpecificationsAbout the Author Though the domain of Jane Austen’s novels was as circumscribed as her life her caustic wit and keen observation made her the equal of the greatest novelists in any language. Born the seventh child of the rector of Steventon Hampshire on December 16 1775 she was educated mainly at home. At an early age she began writing sketches and satires of popular novels for her family’s entertainment. As a clergyman’s daughter from a well-connected family she had an ample opportunity to study the habits of the middle class the gentry and the aristocracy. At twenty-one she began a novel called “The First Impressions” an early version of Pride and Prejudice. In 1801 on her father’s retirement the family moved to the fashionable resort of Bath. Two years later she sold the first version of Northanger Abby to a London publisher but the first of her novels to appear was Sense and Sensibility published at her own expense in 1811. It was followed by Pride and Prejudice 1813 Mansfield Park 1814 and Emma 1815. After her father died in 1805 the family first moved to Southampton then to Chawton Cottage in Hampshire. Despite this relative retirement Jane Austen was still in touch with a wider world mainly through her brothers; one had become a very rich country gentleman another a London banker and two were naval officers. Though her many novels were published anonymously she had many early and devoted readers among them the Prince Regent and Sir Walter Scott. In 1816 in declining health Austen wrote Persuasion and revised Northanger Abby Her last work Sandition was left unfinished at her death on July 18 1817. She was buried in Winchester Cathedral. Austen’s identity as an author was announced to the world posthumously by her brother Henry who supervised the publication of Northanger Abby and Persuasion in 1818.Author 1 Jane AustenFormat PaperbackEdition Number Revised EditionEditorial Review Stevenson has read all of Austens novels for audiobook in abridged or unabridged versions and her experience shows in this delightful production. Though dominated by the intelligent sweet voice of Anne Elliot—the least favored but most worthy of three daughters in a family with an old name but declining fortunes—Stevenson provides other characters with memorable voices as well. She reads Annes haughty fathers lines with a mixture of stuffiness and bluster and Annes sisters are portrayed with a hilariously flighty breathy register that makes Austens contempt for them palpable. Annes voice is mostly measured and reasonable—an expression of her strong mind and spirit—but Stevenson imbues her speech with wonderful shades of passion as Anne is reacquainted with Capt. Wentworth whom she has continued to love despite being forced years before to reject him over status issues. Listening to Stevenson as Anne describe a sudden encounter with Wentworth one hardly needs Austens description of how Anne grows faint—Stevensons perfectly judged and deeply felt reading has already shown that she must have. Even those who have read Austens novels will find themselves loving this book all over again with Stevensons evocative rendition ringing richly in their ears.ISBN-10 1853260568ISBN-13 9781853260568Language EnglishView Full Specifications
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