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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GILL HORNBYHandsome, clever and rich, Emma Woodhouse has no desire to fall in love or be married. Playing Cupid for her peers is far more appealing. But when Emma's well-intentioned schemes for her friend Harriet Smith begin to go awry, Emma...
Northanger Abbey is both an ingenious Gothic parody and a realistic portrait of the social education of a naive young girl in late eighteenth-century England. Conceived in the 1790s but not published until after Jane Austen's death, the novel straddles the style of her...
In her earliest writings, a precocious, alarmingly assured Jane Austen views the adult world with wide, clear eyes, cheekily amused at the emotions, pomposity, intrigues and bustle of family and friends. Composed between the ages of eleven and seventeen, they reveal a...
Money and destructive passion overshadow romance in this darkly humorous novel of sexual manoeuvring and greed. Appearing anonymously in 1811 under the attribution 'By A Lady', Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen's first published work. Uniquely among her novels it has...
A powerful portrait of grief triumphantly overcome, Persuasion is Austen's most passionate work: more than any previous novel, it concentrates on the intense inner life of the heroine. It opens with Anne Elliot lamenting lost love in a painful reversal of the courtship...
Gathering together all the unpublished mature work of Jane Austen, this volume comprises poems, a novella, unfinished novels, literary spoofs and a series of letters giving advice on how to write fiction. Written between her childhood tales and published novels, 'Lady...
Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Austen's six remarkable novels. Full of crackling dialogue, it achieves the finest balance of comedy and reflection, liveliness and solemnity. While revealing the restrictive life of genteel women at the turn of the nineteenth...
Jane Austen's stylish masterpiece, Emma is a brilliant psychological comedy about the mind's deception of itself. It speaks to the tedium of family and social existence, yet does so in a sparkling, utterly beguiling manner. An 'imaginist' and a snob, the heroine Emma...
Many critics regard Mansfield Park as Austen's supreme achievement. It is a serious, even earnest work, but never dull, finding its comedy less in dialogue than in situation. It has wonderful set pieces including an outing to a grand house, aborted theatricals and a...
With a foreword by Ali Hazelwood, author of The Love Hypothesis and Love, TheoreticallyElizabeth Bennet must get married – her family’s status depends on it. But she and Mr Darcy, her suitor, don’t exactly see eye to eye. He’s embarrassed her, she’s snubbed him. As a...
With a foreword by Lauren Asher, author of The Fine Print and Love RedesignedCraving adventure, seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland leaps at the opportunity to step into the dizzying world of British high society in the resort town of Bath.Adventure arrives in the form...
With a foreword by Tessa Bailey, author of It Happened One Summer and Hook, Line and SinkerSelf-appointed matchmaker Emma Woodhouse is convinced that she’ll never marry. ‘Handsome, clever and rich’, the headstrong Emma has lived a charmed life and has no need for...
With a foreword by Krystal Marquis, author of The Davenports and The Davenports: More Than ThisWhen Fanny Price is taken in by wealthy relatives, she finds herself abused, overlooked and thoroughly unloved. Her only solace is her friendship with their youngest son,...
With a foreword by Alexis Hall, author of Boyfriend Material and A Lady for a DukeAnne and Captain Wentworth fell in love eight years ago. Although Anne broke off their engagement as her father wished, their flame flickers on, however dim.When they finally meet again,...
With a foreword by Hannah Grace, author of Icebreaker and WildfireLeft destitute after their father’s death, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood must navigate love, marriage and societal expectations to ensure their security and happiness. But romance isn’t easy, and soon...
Jane Austen tells the story of Emma Woodhouse, a beautiful, wealthy and intelligent woman who is vain and self-centered; she is not interested in romantic love and therefore believes that she should not marry, although the customs of the society of the time see marriage...
Lady Susan Vernon, a beautiful and charming recent widow, visits her brother and sister-in-law, Charles and Catherine, with little advance notice at Churchill, their country residence. Catherine is far from pleased, asLady Susan had tried to prevent her marriage to...
Sir Thomas Bertram is the owner of the luxurious Mansfield Park estate, where he lives with his wife Maria and four children. Lady Bertram's sister Frances, on the other hand, is in more dire straits, so much so that she is forced to ask for help from the Bertrams...
Catherine Morland, the novel's protagonist, is invited to spend a few days at the former Northanger Abbey, the home of the family of the young Anglican pastor to whom she is engaged and who believes her to be a wealthy heiress. Impressed by the place and even more so by...
Jane Austen is one of the few truly great writers who have managed to break into the hearts and minds of all readers, without exception. Among her many masterpieces, “Pride and Prejudice” is surely the most popular and beloved: the five daughters of the unforgettable...
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