The Jane Austen Collection: Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sandition and the Complete Juvenilia (Deluxe Library Edition): Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sandition and the Complete Juvenilia

by Jane Austen

Overview

The Jane Austen Collection includes Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion, as well as the shorter works; Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sandition, and Jane Austen's complete Juvenilia.

Emma - Emma Woodhouse is a strong, independent woman, who is perfectly happy to remain single. When Emma takes on a fancy to matchmaking, she begins to interfere into the love lives of those around her. However, her eagerness to match people together, sparks unintended results that send shock waves throughout the countryside.

Northanger Abbey - At the tender age of fifteen, Catherine Morland has yet to find a young man to be her prince in disguise. When she visits Northanger Abbey, she is expecting to find hidden passageways, dark secrets, and adventures worthy of the Gothic novels she holds so dear. With many challenges in her way, romance stands at the ready to right the wrongs of self-interest, deception, and greed.

Persuasion - As the Napoleonic Wars come to an end in 1814, Admirals and Captains of the Royal Navy are put ashore, their work done. Anne Elliot meets her old love, Captain Frederick Wentworth, after seven years, by the chance of his sister and brother-in-law renting her father's estate. The relationship that blossoms symbolises for Anne the possibility of a more outgoing, engaged, and fulfilling life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781774762370
Publisher:	Engage Classics
Publication date:	02/14/2021
Pages:	1020
Sales rank:	207,755
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 2.44(d)

About the Author

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 - 18 July 1817) was an English novelist. She wrote many books of romantic fiction about the gentry. Her works made her one of the most famous and beloved writers in English literature. She is one of the great masters of the English novel. Austen's works criticized sentimental novels in the late 18th century, and are part of the change to nineteenth- realism. She wrote about typical people in everyday life. This gave the English novel its first distinctly modern character. Austen's stories are often comic, but they also show how women depended on marriage for social standing and economic security. Her works are also about moral problems. Jane Austen was very modest about her own genius. She once famously described her work as "the little bit (two Inches wide) of Ivory, on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labor." She had been working on a new novel, Sanditon, but she died before she could finish it. She is now a well known great writer.

Date of Birth:

December 16, 1775

Date of Death:

July 18, 1817

Place of Birth:

Village of Steventon in Hampshire, England

Place of Death:

Winchester, Hampshire, England

Education:

Taught at home by her father