Jane Austen: The Complete 7 Books Hardcover Books Boxed Set Emma: Set in the fictitious village of Highbury, Jane Austen's Emma is the story of a clever, albeit spoilt, woman - Emma Woodhouse, who lives with her father. Emma is not an instantly likable girl; at first glance, she seems rather selfish and arrogant Pride and Prejudice: One of Jane Austen's most iconic works, Pride and Prejudice chronicles the lives of the Bennet sisters in Regency England - Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine and Lydia. Persuasion: Jane Austen's final finished novel, Persuasion tells the story of two people-Anne Elliot and Navy Captain Frederick Wentworth who were once betrothed and in love but parted ways under unfortunate circumstances. Sanditon and Other Tales: Sanditon was written In the last months of Austen's ilfe and was left unfinished at the time of her death in 1817. Set in a seaside town, It is an amusing tale of hypochondriacs, mixed in with family drama and a whiff of romance. Northanger Abbey: Published posthumously Northanger Abbey is, in fact, Jane Austen's first novel. The shortest of her works, it is also the wittiest a light-hearted satire of Gothic novels, which were quite the rage at the time. Sense and Sensibility: Sense and Sensibility is the Story of two sisters - Elinore and Marianne. Each sister embodles a unique set of traits: Elinore is sense, discrete and of sound judgement: while Marianne is sensibility, emotional and impulsive. Mansfield Park: At the age of ten, Frances Banny Price is sent to live with her uncle and suncan Northamptonshire where she is treated distantly by everyone but her cousin Edmund.
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favorable social standing and economic security. Her works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. With the publications of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1815), she achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began another, eventually titled Sanditon, but died before its completion. Her novels have rarely been out of print, although they were published anonymously and brought her little fame during her lifetime. A significant transition in her posthumous reputation occurred in 1869, fifty-two years after her death, when her nephew's publication of A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced her to a wider audience.