The Complete Novels (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Austen, Jane; Fowler, Karen Joy

• ISBN13: 9780143039501
• ISBN10: 0143039504
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781440649363
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-28
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Summary

Now in Penguin Classics—a treasure trove of Jane Austen’s novels 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. These modern editions are to be strongly recommended.” —Brian Southam, The Jane Austen Society

Author Biography

Jane Austen (1775-û1817) lived in and wrote about Regency, England. Four of her novels were published during her lifetime.
Karen Joy Fowler, a PEN/Faulkner and Dublin IMPAC nominee, is the author of The Jane Austen Book Club and other novels.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Suggestions for Further Reading	xiv
A Note on the Texts	xv
Sense and Sensibility	1	(208)
Pride and Prejudice	209	(214)
Mansfield Park	423	(264)
Emma	687	(272)
Northanger Abbey	959	(132)
Persuasion	1091	(142)
Lady Susan	1233