The Complete Novels of Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility / Pride and Prejudice / Mansfield Park / Emma / Northanger Abbey / Persuasion

By Jane Austen

Book Overview

Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published.Whether it is her sharp, ironic gaze at the Gothic genre invoked by the adventures of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey; the diffident and much put-upon Fanny Price struggling to cope with her emotions in Mansfield Park; her delightfully paced comedy of manners and the machinations of the sisters Elinor and Marianne in Sense and Sensibility; the quiet strength of Anne Elliot in Persuasion succeeding in a world designed to subjugate her very existence; and Emma - 'a heroine whom no one but myself will like' teased Austen - yet another irresistible character on fire with imagination and foresight. Indeed not unlike her renowned creator.Jane Austen is as sure-footed in her steps through society's whirlpools of convention and prosaic mores as she is in her sometimes restrained but ever precise and enduring prose.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394604369
• ISBN13: 9780394604367
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Modern Library
• Length: 1364 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 2.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

5 Stars...

...based simply on the friggin beauty of this book. I have never read any of Jane Austin's books, but have seen all the movies made based on them. Time to grow up and read her words instead of being entertained by someone else's interpretation of them. Looking forward to diving in.

A beautiful book!

This is a collection of jane Austen books hat is both beautiful and well read! i must have read and reread my two all=time favorites ( P&P and Persuasion ) at least 20 times each! I hope you enjoy reading this collection as much as I have! !

This book weighs 5 pounds.

I love Jane Austen’s writing and I lift weights. Now I can do both. The picture of this book suggests that it is a collection of 5 novels, but it is in fact one massive tome🤨