The Penguin Complete Novels of Jane Austen

Informationen zum Autor Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction set among the gentry have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature. She was born in Steventon rectory on 16th December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath and then to Chawton in Hampshire. She wrote from a young age and Pride and Prejudice was begun when she was twenty-two years old. It was initially rejected by the publisher she submitted it to and eventually published in 1813 after much revision. All four of her novels - Sense and Sensibility (1811)! Pride and Prejudice (1813)! Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1815) published in her lifetime were published anonymously. Jane Austen died on 18th July 1817. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (both 1817) were published posthumously. Klappentext Features seven novels: Sense and Sensibility! Pride and Prejudice! Mansfield Park! Emma! Northanger Abbey! Persuasion! and Lady Susan.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Austen
• Publisher: Viking
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.11.2013
• EAN: 9780670919680
• ISBN: 978-0-670-91968-0
• No. of pages: 1336
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 240 mm x 55 mm
• Series: Viking; Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature