Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. Here in one volume are her seven great novels: "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield Park", "Emma", "Northanger Abbey", "Persuasion", and "Lady Susan". Through her vivacious and spirited heroines and their circle, Austen vividly portrays English middle-class life as the eighteenth century came to a close and the nineteenth century began. Each of the 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, and wise, they are masterly evocations of the society Jane Austen observed. This beautiful volume covers the literary career of one of England's finest prose stylists of any century.
- ISBN10 0143039504
- ISBN13 9780143039501
- Publish Date 28 March 2006
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 8 October 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Penguin Classics
- Edition Combined volume
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 1296
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780143039501