The Complete Novels
By: Jane Austen ; introduction by Karen Joy Fowler.
Edition: Penguin Classics Deluxe edition (8)
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1278
ISBN-13: 9780143039501
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: Love stories, English; England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Work titles: Novels
Description: WITH DAZZLING WIT AND KEEN INSIGHT, Jane Austen chronicles the subtleties and nuances of—and the aspirations and machinations at work in—her own social milieu. Through the stories of her spirited heroines and their circles, their interac- tions and rituals, their movements from ballrooms to drawing rooms, from London and Bath to park- lands and gardens, she recreates the English gentry life that she observed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Each of her 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, wise, and penetrating, they are bril- liant portrayals of the society Jane Austen knew.

Enhanced by a fond and lively introduction by bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler (The Jane Austen Book Club), this treasure trove of Seven novels is a must for every Austen fan.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ( p. [xiv]).
Table of contents: title: Sense and sensibility; title: Pride and prejudice; title: Mansfield Park; title: Emma; title: Northanger Abbey; title: Persuasion; title: Lady Susan.