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The Complete Novels of Jane Austen: Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey;
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The Complete Novels of Jane Austen: Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey; Persuasion; Pride and Prejudice; Sanditon and Other Stories; Sense and Sen Hardcover - 2010

by Jane Austen


From the publisher

This collection from Everyman's Library provides the complete works of one of the most popular authors in English literature, including Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abby, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sandition and Other Stories, and Sense and Sensibility.

Each of Jane Austen's masterpieces is enchantingly funny, touchingly and wittily told, and filled with a dazzling gallery of characters. These beautiful, clothbound classics are essentials for any home library.

Details

  • Title The Complete Novels of Jane Austen: Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey; Persuasion; Pride and Prejudice; Sanditon and Other Stories; Sense and Sen
  • Author Jane Austen
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Volumes 7
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Everyman's Library
  • Date 2010-12-21
  • ISBN 9780307700728 / 0307700720
  • Weight 8.34 lbs (3.78 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.25 x 7.25 x 7.5 in (26.04 x 18.42 x 19.05 cm)
  • Reading level 1120
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.7

About the author

Though the domain of Jane Austen's novels was as circumscribed as her life, her caustic wit and keen observation made her the equal of the greatest novelists in any language. Born the seventh child of the rector of Steventon, Hampshire, on December 16, 1775, she was educated mainly at home. At an early age she began writing sketches and satires of popular novels for her family's entertainment. As a clergyman's daughter from a well-connected family, she had ample opportunity to study the habits of the middle class, the gentry, and the aristocracy. At 21, she began a novel called "The First Impressions," an early version of Pride and Prejudice. In 1801, on her father's retirement, the family moved to the fashionable resort of Bath. Two years later she sold the first version of Northanger Abby to a London publisher, but the first of her novels to appear in print was Sense and Sensibility, published at her own expense in 1811. It was followed by Pride and Prejudice(1813), Mansfield Park(1814), and Emma(1815).After her father died in 1805, the family first moved to Southampton then to Chawton Cottage in Hampshire. Despite this relative retirement, Jane Austen was still in touch with a wider world, mainly through her brothers; one had become a very rich country gentleman, another a London banker, and two were naval officers. Though her many novels were published anonymously, she had many early and devoted readers, among them the Prince Regent and Sir Walter Scott. In 1816, in declining health, Austen wrote Persuasionand revised Northanger Abby. Her last work, Sandition, was left unfinished at her death on July 18, 1817. She was buried in Winchester Cathedral. Austen's identity as an author was announced to the world posthumously by her brother Henry, who supervised the publication of Northanger Abby and Persuasion in 1818.