From one of the greatest novelists of the nineteenth century The Complete Novels of Jane Austen collects all of Jane Austen's novels in a single volume published in Penguin Classics Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties & nuances of their own social milieu with the wit & insight of Jane Austen Here in one volume are her seven great novels Sense & Sensibility Pride & Prejudice Mansfield Park Emma Northanger Abbey Persuasion & Lady Susan Through her vivacious & spirited heroines & their circle Austen vividly portrays English middle-class life as the eighteenth century came to a close & the nineteenth century began Each of the novels is a love story & a story about marriage
- marriage for love for financial security for social status But they are not straightforward romances ironic comic & 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 Jane Austen (1775-1817) was famously modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature's most revered writers Austen began writing at a young age embarking on what is possibly her best-known work Pride & Prejudice at the age of 22 She was the author of Sense & Sensibility Pride & Prejudice Emma Persuasion Mansfield Park & Northanger Abbey If you enjoyed The Complete Novels of Jane Austen you might like Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre also available in Penguin Classics' One of my favourite writers' Helen Fielding author of Bridget Jones's Diary' You care about the people living between Austen's pages as intensely as if they were real' Esther Freud author of Hideous Kinky' Jane Austen is a writer who will be with you for a lifetime' Elizabeth Buchan author of Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman