num_pages: 1344
description: Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. Through her vivacious and spirited heroines and their circle, she paints vivid portraits of English middle-class life as the eighteenth century came to a close. 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 mere romances; ironic, comic and wise, they are masterly studies of the society Jane Austen observed. The seven novels in this volume contain some of the most brilliant, dazzling prose in the English language.--back coverEmma / Lady Susan / Mansfield Park / Northanger Abbey / Persuasion / Pride and Prejudice / Sense and Sensibility
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 Books