Emma / Lady Susan / Mansfield Park / Northanger Abbey / Persuasion / Pride and Prejudice / Sense and Sensibility

By Jane Austen

Book Overview

Now in Penguin Classics Deluxe- a treasure trove of Jane Austen's novels Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. Here in one volume are her seven great novels- Sense and Sensibility , Pride and Prejudice , Mansfield Park , Emma , Northanger Abbey , Persuasion , and Lady Susan . Through her vivacious and spirited heroines and their circle, Austen vividly portrays English middle-class life as the eighteenth century came to a close and the nineteenth century began. 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 romances; ironic, comic, and wise, they are masterly evocations of the society Jane Austen observed. This beautiful volume covers the literary career of one of England's finest prose stylists of any century. . A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with French flaps and luxurious packaging . Features the definitive Penguin Classics texts recommended by the Jane Austen Society . New introduction by bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club Karen Joy Fowler For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143039504
• ISBN13: 9780143039501
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Length: 1296 Pages
• Weight: 3.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

All-In-One

While a boxset might be prettier, I enjoy the fact that I paid the price of one book and got multiple classics. I was on the lookout for Pride and Prejudice and found all her novels in one book instead. As a Jane Austen lover, I am thrilled with this. It may not be gorgeous on the outside, but the illustrations before each book (in my version at least) make up for it.

Disappointed

While I love the stories, I can’t read them because the text is too small. I wish it had arrived in a larger format

I am in love

Jane Austen is one of my favorite writers and this is such a great edition. I am simply in love with it.

A Must-Have Collection for Austen Fans!

I purchased this book to gain access to many of Austen’s novels that I had never read and did not own, and am beyond pleased with this edition! The stories are unabridged, and the edition itself is beautiful-a hard-bound gray that looks beautiful on my end table or bookshelf. Highly recommend for readers just diving into the world of Jane Austen-you will LOVE this collection!

Complete works of Jane Austen

I can now say that I have read all of Jane Austen's works. The print may be small and my eyes may be old, but I enjoyed every story in this collection. A must for the home library.

Great for a personal Library

If you love Jane Austen, this is an excellent book to have. It is nice to have all of her works in one location.

The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

This book has been great to have the completed works of Jane Austen. The price is good, and the ability to have all the works right at your finger tips in one volumn is wonderful to have. Makes school a lot easier for the kids.

8 Classics in one volume

Of course the reputation of these novels by Jane Austen is well-known. I enjoyed all these classic novels very much. This book is especially nice because it contains 8 novels in one book. It is lightweight paperback, and easy to carry around. The printers did not waste any space...they left only a very small margin on each page, used a small font (no problem, though, for my reading glasses!), and began each novel on the very next page after the previous one ends. No "fluff", very little white space.

I thought the layout was fine - not a problem. A good buy!

Re the review below - OK, so the layout's in two columns, but then so is the Complete Works of Shakespeare that I own, and the same for Chaucer. It's normal for 'complete works' editions like these to be laid out in more than one column - otherwise the book would be much too thick! The print size is slightly smaller than for a standard book - it's about the same as for a newspaper, so if you're OK reading a newspaper, then you should be fine with this book. A really good value edition, and well worth buying.