This is the Penguin English Library Edition" of " Pride & Prejudice" by Jane Austen. ' No sooner had he made it clear to himself & his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes...' When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy she thinks him arrogant & conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks & lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley & her beloved sister Jane she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions & superbly evokes the friendships gossip & snobberies of provincial middle-class life. " The Penguin English Library"
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Probably the popular favourite among Jane Austen's novels Pride & Prejudice was the first to be written (1796-7) when the author was just twenty-one. Revised for publication thirteen years later it combines the freshness of youth with the skill of maturity not least in the brilliance of the characterization & the attractiveness of the heroine Elizabeth Bennet. ...

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Pride & Prescience" (or A Truth Universally Acknowledged) a Mr. & Mrs. Darcy Mystery embroils the joyous newlyweds Elizabeth & Fitzwilliam Darcy in a mystery involving one of their wedding guests. The lovely Caroline Bingley is engaged to marry a rich & charismatic American. Unfortunately this windswept courtship is marred by many strange events
- nocturnal wanderings spooked horses carriage accidents & even an apparent suicide attempt. Soon the whole Bingley family seems the target of a sinister plot with only the Darcys recognizing the danger. Sinister forces are afoot & the Darcys must get to the bottom of this mystery before the blushing bride descends into madness
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In 2002 an amateur Jane Austen scholar while staying at a Hertfordshire estate stumbled upon a hidden cache of manuscript pages & made an extraordinary literary discovery
- lost scenes from Jane Austen's novels that reveal an altogether different dimension to her oeuvre. Pride & Prejudice's Bingley sisters appear as Sapphic seductresses; Mansfield Park's incest subtext becomes manifest; & Darcy gets more than his shirt wet. This incisive parody of academic study is sure to astonish & delight mischievous Austenites.
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When Auraya was chosen to become a priestess she could never have believed that a mere ten years later she would be one of the White the gods most powerful servants. Sadly Auraya has little time to adapt to the exceptional powers gifted her by the gods. Mysterious black-clad sorcerers from the south plague the land & rumours reach the White of an army being raised. Auraya & her new colleagues work tirelessly to seal alliances & unite the northern continent under their banner but time is running out. War comes to the lands of the White & unless Auraya can master her new abilities even the favour of the gods may not be enough to save them... Trudi Canavan author of the bestselling Black Magician Trilogy embarks upon a wonderful new fantasy series set in a classical world of magic heroes gods & forbidden love. ...

When Auraya was chosen to become a priestess she could never have believed that a mere ten years later she would be one of the White the gods most powerful servants. Sadly Auraya has little time to adapt to the exceptional powers gifted her by the gods. Mysterious black-clad sorcerers from the south plague the land & rumours reach the White of an army being raised. Auraya & her new colleagues work tirelessly to seal alliances & unite the northern continent under their banner but time is running out. War is coming to the lands of the White & unless Auraya can master her new abilities even the favour of the gods may not be enough to save them.. . ...

Legend tells of a foolhardy expedition led by the radical Magos Telok which ventured out into the unknown space beyond the Halo Worlds in search of the Breath of the Gods
- an arcane device with the power to unmake & reshape the very stars themselves. Thousands of years later the ambitious Lexell Kotov musters his Adeptus Mechanicus Explorator fleet & sets out to follow in mad old Teloks footsteps. With the might of the Imperial Guard & the Space Marines to augment his own forces he searches for the hidden clues which will lead him to greatest power that the galaxy has ever known. But who knows what ancient perils may yet lie outside the Imperium & the dominion of mankind?
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This important & original book affirms the significance of drawing as visual thinking in western art from the fifteenth century to the present through an examination of its practice: how & why it is made how it relates to other forms of visual production & theories of art & what artists themselves have written about it. The author herself is a practicing artist & through scrutinizing a wide range of drawings in various media she confirms a long historical commitment to the primal importance of sketching in generating ideas & problem solving examines the production of autonomous drawings as gifts or for pleasure & traces the importance of the life-class & theories of drawing in the training of artists until well into the twentieth century. In the final chapters she address the changing role of drawing in relation to contemporary practice & its importance for conceptual artists working in a non-hierarchical manner with a multiplicity of practices techniques & technologies."ing the writings of artists from Vasari to Reynolds Delacroix to Ruskin Klee & Kandinsky to Beuys Petherbridge proposes that drawing constitutes a discrete if engaged discourse within visual practice with its own internal economy its own typologies codes systems materials & strategies of making; its own markets & collectors its own power relations & self-representations. As well as analyzing specific works by great draughtsmen such as Leonardo Michelangelo Rembrandt Goya & Picasso close attention is paid to those artists traditionally regarded as minor because of their graphic elaboration or involvement with caricature & play as well as to the important contribution of women artists in the twentieth & twenty-first centuries. The book is a response to the vibrant rediscovery of drawing as significant practice in studios exhibitions & art schools & proposes an ambitious & novel agenda for the study & enjoyment of drawing. ...