Jane Austen

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice (1813)
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen (Feb-2005)

Jane Austen's Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park (1814)

Jane Austen's Emma

Emma (1815)

Jane Austen's Persuasion

Persuasion (1818)

Jane Austen's Sense & Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility (1811)

Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey (1803)

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  Teenage Writings
  

  • 1786
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  Three notebooks of Jane Austen's early writings survive. The pieces probably date from 1786 or 1787, around the time that Jane, aged 11 or 12, and her older sister and collaborator Cassandra left school. By this point Austen was already an indiscrimi...

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  Love and Freindship
  

  • 1790
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  Love and Freindship [sic] is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790. From the age of eleven until she was eighteen, Jane Austen wrote her tales in three notebooks. The notebooks still exist -- one in the Bodleian Library; the other two in the Br...

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  Northanger Abbey
  

  • 1803
  • / Historical Romance
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  Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey
  

  Jane Austen's earliest major novel, NORTHANGER ABBEY, is a work of wonderful ironic humor, a parody of the popular literature of the time, and an intriguing tale of men and women in pursuit of love, marriage, and money. The romantic folly of y...

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  Lady Susan
  

  • 1805
  • / Historical Romance
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  Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen. Although the primary focus of this work is the selfish behaviour of Lady Susan as she searches for suitable husbands for herself and her young daughter, the real action shares its importance with...

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  The Watsons
  

  • 1805
  • / Historical Romance
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  FAMILY AFFAIRS Margaret Watson wanted the charming wastrel who already had jilted two of her sisters...Penelope Watson had to decide between a wealthy old man and an impecunious young officer ... Elizabeth Watson was resigned to spinsterhood since t...

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  Sense and Sensibility
  

  • 1811
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  Jane Austen's Sense & Sensibility
  

  Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security. Jane Austen's sardonic humor lays bare the stratagems, the hypocrisy and the poignancy inherent in the struggles of two very diff...

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  Pride and Prejudice
  

  • 1813
  • / Historical Romance
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  Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
  

  Since its immediate success in 1813, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennett, "as...

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  Mansfield Park
  

  • 1814
  • / Historical Romance
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  Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
  

  Mansfield Park is named for the magnificent, idyllic estate, that is home to the wealthy Bertram family and a powerful symbol of English tradition and stability. The novel's heroine Fanny Price, is a "poor relation" living with the Bertra...

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  Emma
  

  • 1815
  • / Historical Romance
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  Jane Austen's Emma
  

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  Sanditon
  

  • 1817
  • / Historical Romance
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  Had Jane Austen lived to complete Sanditon, it would have been as treasured as her other novels. In the half-finished masterpiece, Austen fashions one of her classic heroines -- Charlotte Heywood. The surviving fragment also sets the story well on it...

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  Persuasion
  

  • 1818
  • / Historical Romance
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  Jane Austen's Persuasion
  

  `All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.' Anne Elliot's heartfelt words strike the keynote of Jane Austen's last completed novel. It features a heroine older and wiser than her ...

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Award-Winning Books by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice
1994 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best Romance of All Time
1995 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best All-Time Historical Romance
1999 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best All-Time Regency Romance
2002 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best Romance of All Time
2003 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best All-Time Regency Romance