Persuasion
Persuasion is Jane Austen’s last complete novel, published posthumously in 1817. The story follows Anne Elliot, a 27-year-old woman who, years earlier, was persuaded to break off her engagement to Captain...
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Pride and Prejudice
Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five daughters and live in Hertfordshire in England. Due to the lack of a male heir, the family fortune is due to fall to a cousin. A rich bachelor living close by, Charles Bingley...
Emma
Emma was the daughter of Mr. Woodhouse and Harriet, a pretty orphan who is resolved to scheme her advancement in society, oversees her education. Harriet rejects the advances of a local young farmer as...
Sense and Sensibility
When Mrs Dashwood is forced to leave the estate on the death of her husband, she and her three daughters are cast aside by the stepson, John, who takes charge. They are forced to move to a small cottage in...
Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon
These three unfinished works by Jane Austen contain all the caustic humour, exquisite character development and amusing satire that we have come to expect from Jane Austen.
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Lady Susan and other works
This volume contains four minor novels, perhaps little known, by Jane Austen. They are "Lady Susan", "The Watsons", "Love and Friendship", and "Sanditon". Austen's great gift for describing each one of the...
Northanger Abbey
Catherine Morland travels to Bath to spend a 'season' there. She meets Henry Tilney who falls madly in love with her, the two meeting up again in Northanger Abbey. Henry's father, General Tilney, will not...
Love and Friendship
Jane Austen's earliest writing dates from when she was just eleven years, and already shows the hallmarks of her mature work: wit, acute insight into human folly, and a preoccupation with manners, morals...
Mansfield Park
Sir Thomas Betram of Mansfield Park has two sons and two daughters. The family take in a young and timid Fanny, 9, from a large family of cousins where the parents were finding it difficult to provide for...