The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

By Jane Austen

Book Overview

The works in this collection from the luxurious Knickerbocker Classics series represent all of Jane Austen's complete novels, and provide an elegant entrance into the world that she and her memorable characters inhabited.

This display-worthy volume includes:

Sense and SensibilityPride and PrejudiceMansfield ParkEmmaNorthanger AbbeyPersuasionLady Susan
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.

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.

The Timeless Classics series from Rock Point brings together the works of classic authors from around the world. Complete and unabridged, these elegantly designed gift editions feature luxe, patterned endpapers, ribbon markers, and foil and deboss details on vibrantly colored cases. Celebrate these beloved works of literature as true standouts in your personal library collection.

Other titles in the series include: The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Complete Sherlock Holmes, The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Tales of H.P. Lovecraft, and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631066439
• ISBN13: 9781631066436
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Rock Point
• Length: 1232 Pages
• Weight: 3.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 6.8" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

All-In-One

While a boxset might be prettier, I enjoy the fact that I paid the price of one book and got multiple classics. I was on the lookout for Pride and Prejudice and found all her novels in one book instead. As a Jane Austen lover, I am thrilled with this. It may not be gorgeous on the outside, but the illustrations before each book (in my version at least) make up for it.

Disappointed

While I love the stories, I can’t read them because the text is too small. I wish it had arrived in a larger format

I am in love

Jane Austen is one of my favorite writers and this is such a great edition. I am simply in love with it.

A Must-Have Collection for Austen Fans!

I purchased this book to gain access to many of Austen’s novels that I had never read and did not own, and am beyond pleased with this edition! The stories are unabridged, and the edition itself is beautiful-a hard-bound gray that looks beautiful on my end table or bookshelf. Highly recommend for readers just diving into the world of Jane Austen-you will LOVE this collection!

Complete works of Jane Austen

I can now say that I have read all of Jane Austen's works. The print may be small and my eyes may be old, but I enjoyed every story in this collection. A must for the home library.

Great for a personal Library

If you love Jane Austen, this is an excellent book to have. It is nice to have all of her works in one location.

The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

This book has been great to have the completed works of Jane Austen. The price is good, and the ability to have all the works right at your finger tips in one volumn is wonderful to have. Makes school a lot easier for the kids.

8 Classics in one volume

Of course the reputation of these novels by Jane Austen is well-known. I enjoyed all these classic novels very much. This book is especially nice because it contains 8 novels in one book. It is lightweight paperback, and easy to carry around. The printers did not waste any space...they left only a very small margin on each page, used a small font (no problem, though, for my reading glasses!), and began each novel on the very next page after the previous one ends. No "fluff", very little white space.

I thought the layout was fine - not a problem. A good buy!

Re the review below - OK, so the layout's in two columns, but then so is the Complete Works of Shakespeare that I own, and the same for Chaucer. It's normal for 'complete works' editions like these to be laid out in more than one column - otherwise the book would be much too thick! The print size is slightly smaller than for a standard book - it's about the same as for a newspaper, so if you're OK reading a newspaper, then you should be fine with this book. A really good value edition, and well worth buying.