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Eight years earlier, Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth fell in love, but Anne allowed herself to be persuaded that the young man wasn’t an adequate match. Anne soon realized this to be a terrible mi

Marianne Dashwood is young, flirtatious, and ready to meet a knight in shining armor. Her sister, Elinor, is more restrained?she knows that when it comes to romance, slow and steady wins the race. But

“I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed upon to marry.” Perhaps Jane Austen’s best-loved book, Pride and Prejudice recounts th

When the gorgeous Henry Crawford and his pretty sister, Mary, come to Mansfield, they have no idea of the commotion they will cause. There they find the Bertram family, with their beautiful daughters

Beautiful, clever, rich, and well-meaning, Emma Woodhouse thinks she knows best. She can’t resist orchestrating other people’s lives, and convinced that she’s not destined to find true love herself, s

Now in Penguin Classics-a treasure trove of Jane Austen's novelsView our Austen-mania feature page here. Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the w

Emma is Austen's most technically accomplished novel, with a hidden plot, the full implications of which are only revealed by a second reading. It is here presented for the first time with a full scholarly apparatus. The text retains the spelling and the punctuation of the first edition of 1816, allowing readers to see the novel as Austen's contemporaries first encountered it. This volume, first published in 2005, provides comprehensive explanatory notes, an extensive critical introduction covering the context and publication history of the work, a chronology of Austen's life and an authoritative textual apparatus.

Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marriage for herself, while attempting to push her daughter into a dismal match. A magnificently crafted no

Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believab

Emma, by Jane Austen, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics?series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful

Emma, first published in 1816, was written when Jane Austen was at the height of her powers. In a novel remarkable for its sparkling wit and modernity, Austen presents readers with two of literature’s

Listen to audio presented by Literary Affairs: Pride and Prejudice.View our feature on Jane Austen.Few have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet. Her early det

The text is that of the 1813 SecondEdition (the origins of which can be traced back to 1795). The text isfully annotated and is accompanied by a map of nineteenth-centuryEngland."Contexts" explores th

Jane Austen's last complete novel, Persuasion, is an inspired tale of love lost and renewed amid England's complicated upper society. Blending biting wit, sympathy, astounding insight, and brilliant

Dependent on the benevolence of her aristocratic relatives, young Fanny Price develops into the moral center of a family gone astray and restores the tranquility of her adoptive home. Written in the

A headstrong young woman and her aristocratic suitor must overcome their respective impediments to a happy ending — his pride must be humbled and her prejudice dissolved. The consummate artistr

"Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world

Spirited comedy of manners begins when Catherine Morland meets and falls in love with a young clergyman and is invited to be a guest at Northanger Abbey, the family's country estate.

'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.' So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners--one of the

Sparkling comedy of provincial manners concerns a well-intentioned young heiress and her matchmaking schemes that result in comic confusion for the inhabitants of a 19th-century English village. Drol

Smart, beautiful and desperate for a husband, Charlotte Heywood must escape the clutches of two impossible suitors in order to claim the heart of a charming and fickle young man, in a story originally

Three of the author's most popular works — widely admired for their satiric wit, subtlety, and perfection of style — brilliantly re-create the provincial world of the early-19th-century English c

Thwarted romance between Anne Elliot (Austen's sweetest, most appealing heroine) and Captain Frederick Wentworth. Finely drawn characters, gentle satire, genteel life in the English countryside.

Whentwo sisters appear to be deserted by the young men they had intended to marry, the stage is set for a delicious comedy of manners that not only showcases Austen's perception, humor and inco

In 1811, Jane Austen’s first published work, Sense and Sensibility, marked the debut of England’s premier novelist of manners. Believing that “3 or 4 families in a country village is the very thing to

The second volume in the Complete Novels of Jane Austen, this volume contains the classicsEmma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion.

The first volume in the Complete Novels of Jane Austen, this volume contains the classics Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park.

The romance between Captain Wentworth and Anne, the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, seems doomed because of the young man's family connections and lack of wealth.

The private and social worlds of three families are revealed through the experiences of the heroine, Fanny Price

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)In its marvelously perceptive portrayal of two young women in love, Sense and Sensibility is the answer to those critics and readers who believe that Jane Austen’s novels

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)“Jane Austen remains the most misunderstood of great English writers . . . Austen’s is an extended, exploratory, dangerously subversive art, and is neither harmlessly dec

Emma (1816) is Jane Austen's most characteristic work. Convinced that she understands the world, Emma rules over her invalid father and the small social circle of Highbury with well-meaning tyranny. B

"R.W. Chapman's fine new edition has, among its other merits, the advantage of waking the Jane Austenite up.... The novels continue to live their own wonderful internal life...freshened and enriched b

Jane Austen’s last completed novel, Persuasion is a delightful social satire of England’s landed gentry and a moving tale of lovers separated by class distinctions. After years apart, unmarried Anne E

A young "poor relation," Fancy Price wins her love through patience and virtue while negotiating the complexities of aristocracy, wealth, jealousy, and manners, in a novel of English society. Reissue.

For over 150 years, Pride And Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen herself called this brilliant work her "own darling child." Pride And Prejudice

Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park is now available in an exclusive collector’s edition featuring a delicate laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping and ribbon marker, ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike. Austen fans who appreciated the Seasons collection with love this fine edition from their beloved literary hero.Jane Austen’s third novel follows ten-year-old Fanny Price, whose penniless family sends her to live with her wealthy relatives. Shy and ignored, Fanny is treated unkindly by her cousins, her two aunts, and her uncle. As Fanny grows up, scandals and tragedies plague the family. The story of a young woman trying to find her place in society, this classic coming of age story was revolutionary for its time.The Mansfield Park 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 this as a gift or as for yourself, this remarkable edition features

A fine exclusive edition of one of literature’s most beloved stories. Featuring a laser-cut jacket on a textured hardcover book with foil stamping, all titles in this series will be first editions and

A fine exclusive edition of one of literature’s most beloved stories. Featuring a laser-cut jacket on a textured hardcover book with foil stamping, all titles in this series will be first editions and

Often described as Austen's finest work, Emma is the story of wealthy, beautiful Emma Woodhouse who, bored, matchmakes her friends - with often disastrous results. And gradually Emma starts to realise