Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing, but unsuitable, John Willougby, she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile, Elinor always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love - and its threatened loss - the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.

The author takes the reader on a journey back from the world of the Incas to the first dawn of Andean civilization.

27-year-old Anne Elliot is the second daughter of the widowed baronet Sir Walter Elliot, who unlike her vain father and sisters, is humble, sensible and modest. The Elliot family has to move house to lower their expenses and get out of debt. They rent their former home to an Admiral and his wife. The wife's brother, Navy Captain Frederick Wentworth, had been engaged to Anne in 1806, and now they meet again, both single and unattached, after no contact in more than seven years ...

Seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morland, is a tomboy with a wild imagination and a passion for Gothic novels. Family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen, invite Catherine to spend the season in Bath and she readily accepts. At her first ball, Catherine meets and dances with Henry Tilney. Henry's sister Eleanor invites Catherine to stay with her at the Tilney's home, Northanger Abbey. Catherine accepts the invitation with pleasure, although she imagines that the Abbey will be rather like one of the gloomy castles in her books. Catherine is at first welcomed by General Tilney (Henry's father), who believes that Catherine is an heiress. When he realizes that Catherine is not rich, however, he sends her packing. Back at home, Catherine is unhappy, missing Henry and disillusioned about her precious Gothic novels ...

'Try this tequila oil, Hugito. Just as the alcohol hits your stomach, the chilli will as well and blow it back into your brain. It will take your head off.' Explorer Hugh Thomson takes on Mexico. It's 1979, Hugh Thomson is eighteen, far from home, with time to kill - and on his way to Mexico. When a stranger tells him there's money to be made by driving a car over the US border to sell on the black market in Central America, Hugh decides to give it a go. Throwing himself on the mercy of Mexicans he meets or crashes into, Hugh and his Oldsmobile 98 journey through the region, meeting their fate in the slums of Belize City. Thirty years on, Hugh returns - older but not necessarily wiser - to complete his journey.

Jane Austen, the English novelist, and her best-known novel, Pride and Prejudice, need no introductions. First published in 1813, this novel's story follows the emotional development of Elizabeth Bennet, who learns the consequences of making hasty judgments and ends up appreciating the difference between the superficial and the essential.Pride and Prejudice has long fascinated readers and continues to appear near the top of lists of "most-loved books" by both critics and the general public. One of the most popular novels in English literature, the book has sold over 20 million copies and has been the inspiration for many film and TV adaptations, and sequels and reimaginations of a sort or another.As a book, the novel has been made available in numerous editions, many with abundant original illustration work. This edition contains the illustrations by Hugh Thomson as they appeared in the 1894 printing by George Allen, London, what has become known as the "Peacock Edition."

When Henry Dashwood dies, he leaves his entire fortune and his home, Norland Park, to his son John. John promises that he will provide for his stepmother, Mary Dashwood, and half-sisters Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret. However, John's wife, Fanny, convinces him to give the family a smaller inheritance than he had intended. Left with only this small income, Mrs. Dashwood and her daughters decide to leave Norland immediately ...