num_pages: 1431
description: Sense and SensibilityPride and PrejudiceMansfield ParkEmmaNorthanger AbbeyPersuasionLady SusanJane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published. Whether it is her sharp, ironic gaze at the Gothic genre invoked by the adventures of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey; the diffident and much put-upon Fanny Price struggling to cope with her emotions in Mansfield Park; her delightfully paced comedy of manners and the machinations of the sisters Elinor and Marianne in Sense and Sensibility; the quiet strength of Anne Elliot in Persuasion succeeding in a world designed to subjugate her very existence; and Emma - 'a heroine whom no one but myself will like' teased Austen - yet another irresistible character on fire with imagination and foresight. Indeed not unlike her renowned creator. Jane Austen is as sure-footed in her steps through society's whirlpools of convention and prosaic mores as she is in her sometimes restrained but ever precise and enduring prose.
language: English
title: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
titlecomplete: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
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: Wordsworth Editions Ltd