Product Description

This volume contains the six major movels: Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45629 in Books
• Published on: 1996-05-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 1344 pages

About the Author
Jane Austen (1775-1817) Although Austen was widely read in her lifetime, she published her works anonymously. Her best-known books include PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1813) and EMMA (1816). Virginia Woolf called Austen "the most perfect artist among women."

Customer Reviews

All the best of Jane Austen in one book!
Each Jane Austen book is a masterpiece of literature and this book includes all her completed works. This book makes a very accessible mobile library of her novels that you can take anywhere.The only problem I have with the book is that when you finish one it is very hard to stop your self moving on to the next novel especially when exams are on their way!

All of Austen's witty, charming novels in one volume.
Jane Austen's piercingly accurate yet genteely witty observations on English society are as fresh and funny today as they were in Austen's own time. Here, collected in one volume, are all of her charming, vibrant and facinating characters from the arrogant yet lovable Mr. Darcy in "Pride and Prejudice" to the adorably misguided but well meaning Emma in "Emma" There are no clunkers in this collection. Each of these novels is a joy to read and re-read. Austen's prose and character development are superior and her plots never disappoint. Villains are punished, heroines and heroes eventually triumph and romances work themselves out in humorous yet realistic fashion.

A glimpse of another time.
I loved most of the novels, though the last in the book was my least favourite.

I managed to read this book just before seeing the TV production of 'Pride & Prejudice' (probably a repeat when I saw it) and am glad the order was so. My own visualisation of the characters' appearance was very different from that on screen and I would have been denied that pleasure had I seen the TV first.

Jane Austen's portrayal of the characters is excellent and very believable. You do not need the television to see them very clearly for yourself.

For those of us living in the present day some of the expectations of the people in the novels seem very odd. I for one cannot imagine being so subservient, nor can I imagine relying on anyone else to provide for me. Only the fact that I enjoy reading the classics makes their lives familiar.

As an insight into former times these novels are a wealth of information, woven into wonderful scenarios with depth and clarity, forming a most enjoyable whole.

Definitely worth a read.