Northamptonshire, 1800. A girl of ten arrives at the gates of Mansfield Park with a small bundle and nothing else. Her name is Fanny Price. Her wealthy relatives have agreed to take her in. What no one has decided is what to do with her once she is there.Jane Austen wrote Mansfield Park from inside the world it describes. She knew the precise weight of every social distinction, the exact vocabulary of polite cruelty, the way a household can absorb a person and give nothing back. Fa...

These astoundingly clever stories were written when Jane Austen was between just eleven and eighteen years old, and deserve to be read and admired alongside her novels.Jack and Alice recounts a raucous masquerade ball and the gossip it provides for months afterwards; Alice, who has had a bit too much to drink, becomes infatuated with the pompous Charles Adams. In The Three Sisters, Mary is determined to be married before her sisters are, even if i...

Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, tracing the foundations of Western thought from ancient Greece to the modern age. Homer...

Fifty essential works, one sweeping introduction to the world's greatest storytellers. This first volume gathers Jane Austen's social wit, Charles Dickens's unforgettable characters, Fyodor Dostoevsky's psychological depth, Victor Hugo's romantic grandeur, Herman Melville's seafaring epic, and Edgar Allan Poe's dark imagination alongside giants from Cervantes to Tolstoy, the Bronte sisters to Shakespeare. Spanning centuries and continents, from the Spanish Golden Age to Gothic romance, Vic...

Six giants of English and American comic fiction share the stage in this collection: Jonathan Swift's biting satire, Jane Austen's social wit, Charles Dickens's gallery of eccentrics, Mark Twain's dry American humor, Jerome K. Jerome's beloved comic timing, and Edwin Abbott's flat, delightful satire come together in ten stories built to make you laugh out loud. From drawing-room comedy to absurdist adventure, this anthology proves classic literature can be every bit as funny as it is endur...

Featuring beautiful hand-painted cover art from artist Laci Fowler, this deluxe collector's edition of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility is a must-have for book lovers and literature fans. One of English literature's classic masterpieces—a gripping novel exploring themes of love, sense (rational thought) versus sensibility (emotions), gender roles in the eighteenth century, and the harmful effects of wealth and greed on relationships.Sense and Sensib...

Jane Austen’s timeless tale of sisters navigating love and loss—the inspiration for the new major motion picture starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles.Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby, she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to c...

Enter the elegant world of Jane Austen, where love, wit, social expectations, and marriage shape the lives of unforgettable characters. The Complete Novels of Jane Austen brings together the six completed novels of Jane Austen, one of the most celebrated writers in English literature: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. Through sharp dialogue, memorable characters, and sophisticated social observation, Austen explores the comp...

Brimming with eerie mansions, things that go bump in the night, and a playful sense of farce, Northanger Abbey is Jane Austen's brilliant Gothic satire.At seventeen, daydreaming about thrilling adventures is almost a rite of passage. Such is the case for the imaginative and open-hearted Catherine Morland, who craves the kind of excitement she finds in her beloved Gothic novels.When Catherine is invited to Bath, she is swept up in a glittering world of new friendships, flirt...

Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London.

Meet the heroines, families and fiercely independent minds that changed the course of the novel. Women Who Shaped the Novel gathers fifteen complete classics by Jane Austen, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell and Louisa May Alcott. From Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights to North and South, Little Women and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, these works explore love, class, ambition, morality and a woman's right to choose her own life. The collection's integrat...

Meet the heroines, families and fiercely independent minds that changed the course of the novel. Women Who Shaped the Novel gathers fifteen complete classics by Jane Austen, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell and Louisa May Alcott. From Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights to North and South, Little Women and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, these works explore love, class, ambition, morality and a woman's right to choose her own life. The collection's integrat...