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Though the domain of Jane Austen’s novels was as circumscribed as her life, her caustic wit and keen observation made her the equal of the greatest novelists in any language. Born the seventh child of the rector of Steventon, Hampshire, on December 16, 1775, she was educated mainly at home. At an early age she began writing sketches and satires of popular novels for her family’s entertainment. As a clergyman’s daughter from a well-connected family, she had an ample opportunity to study the habits of the middle class, the gentry, and the aristocracy. At twenty-one, she began a novel called “The... Read More
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Pride and Prejudice
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1983
Price: $4.95
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, the story of Mrs. Bennet's attempts to marry off her five daughters is one of the best-loved and... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1983
Price: $4.95
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, the story of Mrs. Bennet's attempts to marry off her five daughters is one of the best-loved and... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
eBook,
hardcover,
hardcover,
trade paperback and a
trade paperback.
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Sense and Sensibility
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1982
Price: $4.95
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 work on,” she created a brilliant tragicomedy of flirtation and folly. Romantic walks through lush Devonshire and... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1982
Price: $4.95
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 work on,” she created a brilliant tragicomedy of flirtation and folly. Romantic walks through lush Devonshire and... Read more >
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Emma
Format: Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1984
Price: $4.95
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 greatest comic creations—the eccentric Mr. Woodhouse and that quintessential bore, Miss Bates. Here, too, we have what... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1984
Price: $4.95
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 greatest comic creations—the eccentric Mr. Woodhouse and that quintessential bore, Miss Bates. Here, too, we have what... Read more >
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Persuasion
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1984
Price: $4.95
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 Elliot, the heroine Jane Austen called “almost too good for me,” encounters the dashing naval officer others persuaded her to reject... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1984
Price: $4.95
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 Elliot, the heroine Jane Austen called “almost too good for me,” encounters the dashing naval officer others persuaded her to reject... Read more >
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Mansfield Park
Format: Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1983
Price: $4.95
In Mansfield Park, first published in 1814, when the author had reached her full maturity as a novelist, Jane Austen paints some of her most witty and perceptive studies of character. Against a genteel country landscape of formal parks and stately homes, the gossipy Mrs. Norris becomes a masterful comic creation... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1983
Price: $4.95
In Mansfield Park, first published in 1814, when the author had reached her full maturity as a novelist, Jane Austen paints some of her most witty and perceptive studies of character. Against a genteel country landscape of formal parks and stately homes, the gossipy Mrs. Norris becomes a masterful comic creation... Read more >
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Pride and Prejudice
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2000
Price: $7.95
"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 most popular novels of all time--that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2000
Price: $7.95
"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 most popular novels of all time--that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
eBook,
hardcover,
hardcover,
paperback and a
trade paperback.
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Persuasion
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2001
Price: $5.95
Called a 'perfect novel' by Harold Bloom, Persuasion was written while Jane Austen was in failing health. She died soon after its completion, and it was published in an edition with Northanger Abbey in 1818.
In the novel, Anne Elliot, the heroine Austen called 'almost too good for me,' has let... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2001
Price: $5.95
Called a 'perfect novel' by Harold Bloom, Persuasion was written while Jane Austen was in failing health. She died soon after its completion, and it was published in an edition with Northanger Abbey in 1818.
In the novel, Anne Elliot, the heroine Austen called 'almost too good for me,' has let... Read more >
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Pride and Prejudice
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: October 15, 1991
Price: $20.00
(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 decorative nor picturesquely provincial . . . [Irony] is the secret of the perfect self-sufficiency of Pride and Prejudice.”—from the Introduction by Peter... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: October 15, 1991
Price: $20.00
(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 decorative nor picturesquely provincial . . . [Irony] is the secret of the perfect self-sufficiency of Pride and Prejudice.”—from the Introduction by Peter... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
eBook,
hardcover,
paperback,
trade paperback and a
trade paperback.
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Sense and Sensibility
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2001
Price: $6.95
Published in 1811, Sense and Sensibility has delighted generations of readers with its masterfully crafted portrait of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Forced to leave their home after their father's death, Elinor and Marianne must rely on making good marriages as their means of support. But unscrupulous cads, meddlesome matriarchs... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2001
Price: $6.95
Published in 1811, Sense and Sensibility has delighted generations of readers with its masterfully crafted portrait of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Forced to leave their home after their father's death, Elinor and Marianne must rely on making good marriages as their means of support. But unscrupulous cads, meddlesome matriarchs... Read more >
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The Annotated Pride and Prejudice
Format: Trade Paperback, 784 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $16.95
This first-ever fully annotated edition of one of the most beloved novels in the world is a sheer delight for Jane Austen fans. Here is the complete text of Pride and Prejudice with more than 2,300 annotations on facing pages, including:
• Explanations of historical context
Rules of etiquette, class differences, the position... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 784 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $16.95
This first-ever fully annotated edition of one of the most beloved novels in the world is a sheer delight for Jane Austen fans. Here is the complete text of Pride and Prejudice with more than 2,300 annotations on facing pages, including:
• Explanations of historical context
Rules of etiquette, class differences, the position... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Northanger Abbey
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2002
Price: $6.95
Jane Austen’s first novel, Northanger Abbey—published posthumously in 1818—tells the story of Catherine Morland and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austen’s fallible heroine is repeatedly drawn into scrapes while vacationing at Bath and during her subsequent visit to Northanger Abbey, Catherine eventually triumphs, blossoming into a discerning... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2002
Price: $6.95
Jane Austen’s first novel, Northanger Abbey—published posthumously in 1818—tells the story of Catherine Morland and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austen’s fallible heroine is repeatedly drawn into scrapes while vacationing at Bath and during her subsequent visit to Northanger Abbey, Catherine eventually triumphs, blossoming into a discerning... Read more >
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Emma
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2001
Price: $7.95
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 with very little to distress or vex her. So begins Jane Austen's comic masterpiece Emma. In Emma, Austen's prose... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2001
Price: $7.95
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 with very little to distress or vex her. So begins Jane Austen's comic masterpiece Emma. In Emma, Austen's prose... Read more >
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Persuasion
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: June 30, 1992
Price: $19.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Of all Jane Austen’s great and delightful novels, Persuasion is widely regarded as the most moving. It is the story of a second chance.
Anne Elliot, daughter of the snobbish, spendthrift Sir Walter Elliot, is a woman of quiet charm and deep feelings. When she was nineteen, she fell... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: June 30, 1992
Price: $19.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Of all Jane Austen’s great and delightful novels, Persuasion is widely regarded as the most moving. It is the story of a second chance.
Anne Elliot, daughter of the snobbish, spendthrift Sir Walter Elliot, is a woman of quiet charm and deep feelings. When she was nineteen, she fell... Read more >
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Mansfield Park
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $8.00
Through Fanny Price, the heroine of Mansfield Park, Jane Austen views the social mores of her day and contemplates human nature itself. A shy and sweet-tempered girl adopted by wealthy relations, Fanny is an outsider looking in on an unfamiliar, and often inhospitable, world. But Fanny eventually wins the affection of... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $8.00
Through Fanny Price, the heroine of Mansfield Park, Jane Austen views the social mores of her day and contemplates human nature itself. A shy and sweet-tempered girl adopted by wealthy relations, Fanny is an outsider looking in on an unfamiliar, and often inhospitable, world. But Fanny eventually wins the affection of... Read more >
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Emma
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: November 26, 1991
Price: $20.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The most perfect of Jane Austen’s perfect novels begins with twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse comfortably dominating the social order in the village of Highbury, convinced that she has both the understanding and the right to manage other people’s lives–for their own good, of course. Her well-meant interfering centers on... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: November 26, 1991
Price: $20.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The most perfect of Jane Austen’s perfect novels begins with twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse comfortably dominating the social order in the village of Highbury, convinced that she has both the understanding and the right to manage other people’s lives–for their own good, of course. Her well-meant interfering centers on... Read more >
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Sense and Sensibility
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: March 10, 1992
Price: $18.00
(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, despite their perfection of form and tone, lack strong feeling. Its two heroines–so utterly unlike each other–both undergo the most... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: March 10, 1992
Price: $18.00
(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, despite their perfection of form and tone, lack strong feeling. Its two heroines–so utterly unlike each other–both undergo the most... Read more >
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The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Volume I
Format: Hardcover, 912 pages
On Sale: September 5, 1992
Price: $23.95
Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 912 pages
On Sale: September 5, 1992
Price: $23.95
Read more >
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Pride and Prejudice
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: November 21, 1995
Price: $14.95
"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 perfect comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: November 21, 1995
Price: $14.95
"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 perfect comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
eBook,
hardcover,
paperback,
trade paperback and a
trade paperback.
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Persuasion
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $5.95
Of all Jane Austen’s great and delightful novels, Persuasion is widely regarded as the most moving. It is the story of a second chance.
Anne Elliot, daughter of the snobbish Sir Walter Elliot, is woman of quiet charm and deep feelings. When she was nineteen she fell in love with—and was engaged... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $5.95
Of all Jane Austen’s great and delightful novels, Persuasion is widely regarded as the most moving. It is the story of a second chance.
Anne Elliot, daughter of the snobbish Sir Walter Elliot, is woman of quiet charm and deep feelings. When she was nineteen she fell in love with—and was engaged... Read more >
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Emma
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $7.95
The most perfect of Jane Austen’s perfect novels begins with twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse comfortably dominating the social order in the village of Highbury, convinced that she has both the understanding and the right to manage other people’s lives—for their own good, of course. Her well-meant interfering centers on the aloof Jane... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $7.95
The most perfect of Jane Austen’s perfect novels begins with twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse comfortably dominating the social order in the village of Highbury, convinced that she has both the understanding and the right to manage other people’s lives—for their own good, of course. Her well-meant interfering centers on the aloof Jane... Read more >
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Northanger Abbey
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: November 3, 1992
Price: $19.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Northanger Abbey is a perfectly aimed literary parody that is also a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. But most of all, it is the story of the initiation into life of its naïve but... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: November 3, 1992
Price: $19.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Northanger Abbey is a perfectly aimed literary parody that is also a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. But most of all, it is the story of the initiation into life of its naïve but... Read more >
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Northanger Abbey
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $6.95
Northanger Abbey is both a perfectly aimed literary parody and a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. But most of all, it is the story of the initiation into life of its naïve but sweetly appealing heroine, Catherine... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $6.95
Northanger Abbey is both a perfectly aimed literary parody and a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. But most of all, it is the story of the initiation into life of its naïve but sweetly appealing heroine, Catherine... Read more >
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The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Volume 2
Format: Hardcover, 736 pages
On Sale: September 5, 1992
Price: $23.95
Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 736 pages
On Sale: September 5, 1992
Price: $23.95
Read more >
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Mansfield Park
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: June 2, 1992
Price: $22.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Introduction by Peter Conrad Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: June 2, 1992
Price: $22.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Introduction by Peter Conrad Read more >
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Mansfield Park
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $6.95
Mansfield Park encompasses not only Jane Austen’s great comedic gifts and her genius as a historian of the human animal, but her personal credo as well—her faith in a social order that combats chaos through civil grace, decency, and wit.
At the novel’s center is Fanny Price, the classic “poor cousin,” brought... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $6.95
Mansfield Park encompasses not only Jane Austen’s great comedic gifts and her genius as a historian of the human animal, but her personal credo as well—her faith in a social order that combats chaos through civil grace, decency, and wit.
At the novel’s center is Fanny Price, the classic “poor cousin,” brought... Read more >
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