Complete Novels of Jane Austen
Edition: Penguin Film and TV Tie-in edition (29)
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1336
ISBN-13: 9780140259445
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.
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