Jane Austen

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.

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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.

A Booktok favorite for its aesthetic on bookshelves, experience Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in this exclusive collector's edition featuring a delicate laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping and ribbon marker. This beautiful book is an ideal gift for fiction lovers and book collectors alike.

In Jane Austen's most popular novel, Elizabeth Bennet and eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy clash instantly. She finds him arrogant, conceited, and indifferent, disliking him even more when she discovers he has interfered in the relationship between his friend Bingley and Elizabeth's older sister Jane. In this classic comedy of misdirected manners, Jane Austen shows readers how first impressions can't always be trusted.

This Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Edition is a beautiful and unique special edition, perfect for book collectors, Jane Austen lovers, and fans of classic literature. Whether you're buying it as a gift or for yourself, this remarkable edition features a beautiful hardcover with a one-of-a-kind, high-end laser-cut jacket; decorative interior pages featuring quotes distributed throughout; and a ribbon marker.

The Harper Muse: Jane Austen collection includes all her beloved works: Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Persuasion

Jane Austen's Mansfield Park arrives in a deluxe edition featuring a delicate laser-cut jacket over a textured hardcover with foil stamping and a ribbon marker--an exquisite keepsake for Austen fans, literature lovers, and book collectors.

First published in 1814, Mansfield Park tells the story of Fanny Price, a shy young girl sent from her impoverished family to live with her wealthy relatives. Overlooked and underestimated, Fanny grows up in a household plagued by scandal, temptation, and tragedy, yet she quietly discovers her strength and moral compass in a society that often undervalues her. This groundbreaking coming-of-age story remains one of Austen's most thought-provoking works.

Whether purchased as a gift or a treasured addition to your own library, this special edition features:

• A beautiful hardcover wrapped in a one-of-a-kind laser-cut jacket
• Foil stamping and textured details for a truly elevated design
• Decorative interior pages with quotes distributed throughout
• A coordinating ribbon marker

Collected alongside the other timeless works in the Jane Austen Deluxe Collection or on its own, this deluxe edition of Mansfield Park is both a literary treasure and a perfect gift for fans of classic literature.

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.

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.

As relevant now as when it was first published, this classic tale weaves a love story with the clash between the pursuit of profit and humanitarian ideals

"[An] admirable story ... full of character and power" —Charles Dickens

When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the North of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice. This is intensified by her tempestuous relationship with the mill-owner and self-made man John Thornton, as their fierce opposition over his treatment of his employees masks a deeper attraction.

In North and South Gaskell skilfully fused individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale created one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature. In her introduction Patricia Ingham examines Elizabeth Gaskell's treatment of geographical, economic and class differences, and the male and female roles portrayed in the novel. This edition also includes further reading, notes and a useful glossary.