The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

<DIV><B>Celebrate the timeless wit and romance of Jane Austen with this beautifully bound deluxe edition, featuring all seven beloved novels in one elegant collector’s volume.</B><br><br>Jane Austen revolutionized the literary romance, using it as a platform from which to address issues of gender politics and class consciousness among the British middle class of the late eighteenth century. <B>Bound in a heat-stamped, vegan leather cover with foil accents</B>, this collection includes all of Austen’s unabridged novels and novellas:<br><br><ul><li><I>Sense and Sensibility</I></li><li><I>Pride and Prejudice</I></li><li><I>Mansfield Park</I></li><li><I>Emma</I></li><li><I>Northanger Abbey</I></li><li><I>Persuasion</I></li><li><I>Lady Susan</I></li></ul><I><br></I>With witty, unflinching morality, Austen portrays English middle-class life as the eighteenth century came to a close and the nineteenth century began. Austen’s heroines find happiness in many forms; each of the novels is a story of love and marriage—marriage for love, financial security, and for social status.<br><br>In a publishing career that spanned less than ten years, her work brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime. It wasn’t until the 1940s that she became widely accepted in academia as a great English writer. The second half of the 20th century saw a proliferation of Austen scholarship and the emergence of a fan culture. Austen’s works continue to influence the course of the novel even as they charm readers today.<br><br>Savor and cherish the novels of Jane Austen in this display-worthy keepsake volume.<br><br><P>Essential volumes for the shelves of every classic literature lover, these deluxe classics editions include beautifully presented works from some of the most important authors in literary history. Other <B>Chartwell Deluxe Editions</B> include: <I>Little Women, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Anne of Green Gables, The Inferno, Dracula, The Republic, The Iliad, Meditations</I>, and <I>Irish Fairy and Folk Tales</I>.</P></DIV>