The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Vol. 1 (Sense & Sensibility / Pride & Prejudice / Mansfield Park)
"For those of us who suspect all the mysteries of life are contained in the microcosm of the family, that personal relationships prefigure all else, the work of Jane Austen is the Rosetta stone of literature."--Anna Quindlen"How could these novels ever seem remote?...The gaiety is unextinguished today, the irony has kept its bite, the reasoning is still sweet, the sparkle undiminished....As comedies they are irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be."--Eudora Welty