Jane Austen Books

This complete set of the novels of Jane Austen is now reissued as a shrink-wrapped set with handsome new jackets. Using the definitive text established by R.W. Chapman, with later revisions by distinguished scholars, the set presents the most authoritative and comprehensive edition available - invaluable for students and enthusiasts of Jane Austen's work. Each volume contains notes and appendices, and indexes of characters, and the set is illustrated with a charming selection of early nineteenth-century plates.

.0000000000This elegant boxed set of all of Jane Austen's complete novels sets a new standard. Beautifully designed, with real cloth padded tops and matt laminated printed sides over 3mm boards, they will be as much at home in the living room as on the bedside table or bureau. As well as a free box, the price represents a saving of nearly £9.00 on the purchase of individual volumes. All the books contain dozens of Hugh Thomson's evocative illustrations.

WITH DAZZLING WIT AND KEEN INSIGHT, Jane Austen chronicles the subtleties and nuances of—and the aspirations and machinations at work in—her own social milieu. Through the stories of her spirited heroines and their circles, their interac- tions and rituals, their movements from ballrooms to drawing rooms, from London and Bath to park- lands and gardens, she recreates the English gentry life that she observed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Each of her novels is a love story and a story about marriage—marriage for love, for financial security, for social status. But they are not romances; ironic, comic, wise, and penetrating, they are bril- liant portrayals of the society Jane Austen knew. Enhanced by a fond and lively introduction by bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler (The Jane Austen Book Club), this treasure trove of Seven novels is a must for every Austen fan.

Three of the author's most popular works - widely admired for their satiric wit, subtlety, and perfection of style - brilliantly re-create the provincial world of the early-19th-century English countryside, focusing, respectively, on husband-hunting mothers and daughters, the humbling of proud lovers, and the return of a once-rejected lover.

This beautifully illustrated collection contains all of Jane Austen's novels retold for young readers, including Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park, with notes on the characters and quotations from the original text. With links to websites to find out more about Jane Austen's life and times.

In the early nineteenth century, as Napoleon reshaped Europe, the daughter of a rural English clergyman was quietly revolutionizing literature. This volume gathers Jane Austen's three most significant works. "Sense and Sensibility," her first major novel, tells the story of two sisters with contrasting temperaments, exploring how their experiences with love are influenced by the distances and secrets that separate them. Elinor embodies sense with her practicality, while Marianne represents sensibility with her emotional nature. Their struggles lead to a deeper understanding of one another, culminating in a harmonious balance between sense and sensibility. "Pride and Prejudice" features the romantic tension between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, capturing the class consciousness of eighteenth-century English society. The sharp dialogue critiques contemporary mores while the characters resonate beyond their time. "Emma" showcases Austen's mature genius through the confident Emma Woodhouse, who seeks to orchestrate her life and the lives of others according to her romantic ideals. Austen herself described Emma as a heroine "no one but myself will much like," yet she has captivated generations of readers. Jane Austen, born on December 16, 1775, in Hampshire, England, published four novels during her lifetime, with two more released posthumously.

The complete novels of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Emma and Persuasion in one large, brand new and giftable hardcover with perfect dj.

Jane Austen revolutionized the literary romance, using it as a platform from which to address issues of gender politics and class consciousness among the British middle-class of the late eighteenth century. The novels included in the collection - Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Lady Susan - represent all of Austen's complete novels, and provide the reader with an entrance into the world she and her memorable characters inhabited. With witty, unflinching morality, Austen portrays English middle-class life as the eighteenth century came to a close and the nineteenth century began. Austen's heroines find happiness in many forms, each of the novels is a story of love and marriage -- marriage for love, financial security and for social status. In a publishing career that spanned less than ten years her work brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime. It wasn't until the 1940s that she became widely accepted in academia as a great English writer. The second half of the 20th century saw a proliferation of Austen scholarship and the emergence of a fan culture. Austen's works continue to influence the course of the novel even as they charm readers today.

Begun in 1811 at the height of Jane Austen's writing powers and published in 1814, Mansfield Park marks a conscious break from the tone of her first three novels, Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice, the last of which Austen came to see as "rather too light." Fanny Price is unlike any of Austen's previous heroines, a girl from a poor family brought up in a splendid country house and possessed of a vast reserve of moral fortitude and imperturbability. She is very different from Elizabeth Bennet, but is the product of the same inspired imagination.