Publisher's Synopsis

Sense and Sensibility | Pride and Prejudice | Mansfield Park | Emma | Northanger Abbey | Persuasion | Love and Freindship

Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. Through her vivacious and spirited heroines and their circle, she paints vivid portraits of English middle-class life as the eighteenth century came to a close. 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 mere romances; ironic, comic and wise, they are masterly studies of the society Jane Austen observed. The seven books in this box set contain some of the most brilliant, dazzling prose in the English language.

Book information

ISBN: 9780141395203
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Pub date:
Edition: Omnibus ed
DEWEY: 823.7
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 1
Weight: 4220g
Height: 253mm
Width: 211mm
Spine width: 143mm