Jane Austen

Convenient and portable, this single volume contains all the complete novels of Jane Austen: Sense & Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Lady Susan. And introduction and notes on the text provides an introduction and brief analysis of her works, life, and genius. 1278 pages, softcover.

Emma Woodhouse believes herself to be an excellent matchmaker, though she herself does not plan on marrying. But as she meddles in the relationships of others, she causes confusion and misunderstandings throughout the village, and she just may be overlooking a true love of her own. Clothbound hardcover featuring a sea-green-grey cover with imprinted white chairs. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Fiona Stafford. 474 pages, hardcover.

Catherine Morland, an unlikely heroine - unlikely because she is so ordinary - forsakes her English village for the pleasures and perils of Bath. There, among a circle of Austen's wonderfully vain, dissembling, and fashionable characters, she meets a potential suitor, Henry Tilney. But with her imagination feuled by melodramatic novels, Catherine turns a visit to his home, Northanger Abbey, into a hunt for dark family secrets. The result is a series of hilarious social gaffes and harsh awakenings that for all of Austen's youthful exuberance nevertheless conveys her mature vision of literature and life - and the consequences of mistaking one for the other.

Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth are happily engaged until one simple Persuasion from Anne's cousin's, Lady Russell, changes everything. After returning home a rich and powerful sea captain, Wentworth finds that Anne's family is financially ruined and his own sister is a tenant in their home. Will Anne and Frederick be reunited in their love?

This Penguin Hardcover classic features cover art of white imprinted feathers over a sage green cloth cover. Green ribbon marker included. 249 pages, cloth-bound hardcover.

Lady Susan, with its wicked, beautiful, intelligent and energetic heroine, is a sparkling melodrama which takes its tone from the outspoken and robust eighteenth century. Written later, and probably abandoned after her father's death, The Watsons is a tantalizing and highly delightful story whose vitality and optimism centre on the marital prospects of the Watson sisters in a small provincial town. Sanditon, Jane Austen's last fiction, is set in a seaside town and its themes concern the new speculative consumer society and foreshadow the great social upheavals of the Industrial Revolution.

Discovered and published posthumously, these writings were first introduced in a memoir written by the late Jane Austen's newphew in 1871. They show quite a different style of writing than the rest in her collection, and prove to be very amusing for both study and reading for pleasure.

Sandition and Other Stories includes Jane Austen's unfinished work Sandition as well as The Watsons (another uncompleted work), the novella Lady Susan, and a collection of Austen's juvenilia. This Everyman's Library edition is crafted to last through years of reading; it features acid-free natural-cream-colored text paper, a cloth-covered hardcover with stamping, a Smyth-sewn binding, a silk ribbon marker, and a European-style half-round spine style. In addition, this work includes an original introduction by Peter Washington, an up-to-date bibliography, and a complete chronology of Jane Austen's life and works. 502 pages, hardcover.

When Charlotte Heywood accepts an invitation to visit the newly fashionable seaside resort of Sanditon, she is introduced to a full range of polite society, from the reigning local dowager, Lady Denham to her impoverished ward, Clara, and from the handsome, feckless Sidney Parker to his amusing, if hypochondriacal sisters.

In this beautiful biography of one of fiction's most beloved writers, not only do we see how Jane Austen's life inspired her greatest works, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, but we also see how she set the standards for fiction novels all over the world.