5 movies based on Jane Austen’s books you can’t miss

Jane Austen was a prominent British novelist who lived during the Regency period. The irony she used to provide comic to her novels makes Jane Austen is considered among the "classics" of the English novel, while her reception goes, even today, beyond the academic interest, being her works read for a wider audience.

Youngest women are the ones who get in touch with her novels especially with movies that are based on her book. Here you have a complete list where you can find those movies and fall in love with them.

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1. Sense and Sensibility  (Book -1811, Movie -1995)

The principal characters are Elinor (Emma Thompson), Marianne (Kate Winslet) and Margaret Dashwood sisters, who live with their mother, Mrs. Dashwood. After the death of his father the family estate passed to his half-brother, John Dashwood, only male descendant and son of a first marriage; the family left with almost nothing and move to a small house in the country that offers them a relative. The novel follows the Dashwood sisters to their new home, where they experience both romance and heartbreak. They meet three men: Edward Ferrars, Willoughby and Colonel Brandon.

Elinor and Marianne have opposite temperaments. Traditionally, it has been considered that Elinor, the eldest, aged 19, represents the "sense" (reason) the title and Marianne, who is 17, represents the "sensitibility" (emotion). However, this view is very limited. A detailed examination of the novel can see in each sister different aspects of each of these features.

The contrast between the characters of the sisters is finally resolved when each find love and lasting happiness. The two key love stories are between Emma Thompson and Hugh Grant’s Eleanor and Edward, and Kate Winslet and Alan Rickman Marianne and Brandon. Both couples have amazing chemistry.

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2. Pride and Prejudice (Book -1813, Movies – 1940, 2005)

It was first published on January 28, 1813 as an anonymous work, is the most famous novel of Jane Austen and one of the first romantic comedies in the history of the novel. Her first sentence is also one of the most famous in English literature: "It is a globally recognized truth that a single man in possession of a large fortune needs a wife."

It is a personal development novel, in which the two main figures, Elizabeth Bennet (Keira Knightley) and Fitzwilliam Darcy (Matthew Macfadyen) each in their own way and yet, in much the same, must mature to overcome some crisis, learn from their mistakes to face the future together, overcoming class pride Darcy and Elizabeth's prejudices toward him.

It is one of the best known works of English literature. The 2005 film portrays the Georgian era, with touches of diverse personalities in a time when social class was the most relevant factor to qualify a person, without the heart or principles had anything to do.

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3. Emma (Book -1815, Movies -1972, 1995, 1996, 2005, 2009, 2011)

Emma is a comic English novel first published in 1815 by John Murray editor, about the dangers of misinterpreting the romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described as "beautiful, clever and rich" but is also quite spoiled. Before beginning the novel, Austen wrote, "I'm going to take a heroine who, except me, not like a lot."

This novel has had many film versions but the most prominent are those of 1996 with Gwyneth Paltrow as Emma and the version of 2009 with Romola Garai as Emma and Jonny Lee Miller as Mr Knightley.

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4. Northanger Abbey (Book -1818, Movies -1986, 2007)

Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen novels which was prepared for publication, but had previously begun work on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. According to the memorandum of Cassandra Austen, Susan (as it was called in principle) it was written around the years 1798-1799.

It was written in 1798, revised for the press in 1803, and sold that same year by ten pounds (£ 10) to a bookseller of Bath, Crosbie & Co., who after leaving for several years in their shelves, it resold the brother of the novelist, Henry Austen, for the same amount he had paid at first, knowing that the writer was already the author of four popular novels. The novel was reviewed again before being published posthumously in late December 1817 (1818 is said on its home page) as the first two volumes of a set of four, followed Persuasion.

Northanger Abbey follows Catherine Morland (Felicity Jones) and his friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen during his visit to Bath, England. The seventeen-year-old Catherine spends time visiting new friends, as Isabella Thorpe, and going to dances. Catherine is intended by Isabella's brother, John Thorpe (college friend Catherine's brother, James) and by Henry Tilney (JJ Field). friend is also made with Eleanor Tilney, Henry's younger sister. Mr. Henry Tilney captivates with his view on novels and her knowledge of history and the world. The Tilney invites Catherine to visit the estate of his father, Northanger Abbey, that since she is reading gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe titled the mysteries of Udolfo, Catherine expects to be dark, ancient and full of mystery and fantasy.

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5. Persuasion (Book -1818, Movie –1995)

It’s the last novel written by Jane Austen. She began writing shortly after Emma finished, the finished writing in August 1816. Austen died at the age of 41 in 1817, however Persuasion was published posthumously in 1818 work.

Persuasion is connected with Northanger Abbey not only for being published with it in a single volume two years later, but also because both stories take place in Bath, spa to which Jane came at that time.

It presents Ana (Ana), daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, vain man and too worried about appearances to see what happens around them. Anne has two sisters, Elizabeth (Elizabeth), her senior but still beautiful and attractive character identical to his father, and Mary (Maria), child and already married to Charles (Carlos) Musgrove. In the midst of these people is Anne, whose "right" age for marriage has gone, lost beauty and fullness. Several years before Anne met a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, poor and with no prospect for a family like the Elliot would agree to a marriage with one of its members. Moved by the persuasion of Lady Russell, who raised Anne as a mother by the absence of true, Anne is forced to deny his love and face long years of solitude in which although is losing perhaps the beauty grows its spirit and intelligence, making it an attractive and kind woman.

However, the dark fate of Anne changes when, after all these years promoted to Captain Wentworth, enriched by war and highly attractive appears again in his social circle. Although initially resentment and pain of the previous rejection move soon man's character will captivate Anne again giving both a new opportunity in life.

In 1995 in the UK the movie "Persuasion" premieres, under the general direction of Roger Michell. It was filmed in Abbey Green, Bath, Somerset; it lasted 107 minutes. The main players selected for the film version were Amanda Root as Anne Elliot and Ciarán Hinds as Captain Frederick Wentworth.