Part of the "Collins Classics" series, this collection includes the six novels by Jane Austen - "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice", "Emma", "Mansfield Park", "Persuasion" and "Northanger Abbey, with commissioned introductions by Paul Boateng MP, Sir V.S. Pritchett, Reginald Hill, Patrick O'Brian. Jane Austen's early epistolary work "Lady Susan" is also featured, along with a short biography by Nigel Nicholson.