num_pages: 1278
description: Now in Penguin Classics - a treasure trove of Jane Austen's novelsFew 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.
language: English
title: The Complete Novels
titlecomplete: The Complete Novels
characters: Mary Bennet, Jane Bennet, Maria Lucas, Elinor Dashwood, Charlotte Lucas, Colonel Fitzwilliam, George Wickham, John Thorpe, Fanny Dashwood, Fanny Price (Mansfield Park), Miss Bates, Sir Thomas Bertram, Colonel Brandon, Mr. Bennet, William Price, General Tilney, Lady Russell, Edward Ferrars, Georgiana Darcy, Mrs. Dashwood, Henry Tilney, Caroline Bingley, John Dashwood, Mrs. Bennet, Catherine Morland, John Knightley, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Elizabeth Bennet, Lady Middleton, Jane Fairfax, Cher, Louisa Hurst, Lydia Bennet, Lady Lucas, Mr. Yates, Mr. William Collins, Elton, Eleanor Tilney, Maria Bertram, Mr. Gardiner, Tom Bertram, Mrs. Isabella Knightley, Anne de Bourgh, Sir John Middleton, Mrs. Gardiner, Isabella Thorpe, Mr. Rushworth, Kitty Bennet, Edmund Bertram, Mary Crawford, Tai, Sir William Lucas, Mr. Price, Charles Bingley, Augusta Elton, Christian, Marianne Dashwood, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Mrs. Price, Josh, Julia Bertram, Anne Elliot, Mel Horowitz, Lady Bertram, Henry Crawford
genres: Historical Fiction, Historical, Novels, Literature, Classic Literature, Classics, British Literature, Anthologies, Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 32549
publisher: Penguin Classics