Complete Works of Jane Austen

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The Complete Works of

JANE AUSTEN

(1775-1817)

Contents

The Novels

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

MANSFIELD PARK

EMMA

NORTHANGER ABBEY

PERSUASION

LADY SUSAN

The Unfinished Novels

THE WATSONS

SANDITON

The Juvenilia

LIST OF EARLY WORKS

The Letters

THE LETTERS OF JANE AUSTEN

The Criticism

JANE AUSTEN by Sir Walter Scott

ARCHBISHOP WHATELY ON JANE AUSTEN by Richard Whately

TO JANE AUSTEN by Andrew Lang

REALISM: JANE AUSTEN by Richard Burton

ON JANE AUSTEN IN THE GENERAL ELECTION by G. K. Chesterton

JANE AUSTEN’S JUVENILIA by G. K. Chesterton

JANE AUSTEN: NATURAL HISTORIAN by Robert Lynd

THREE ESSAYS ON JANE AUSTEN by Virginia Woolf

The Biographies

A MEMOIR OF JANE AUSTEN by James Edward Austen-Leigh

JANE AUSTEN, HER LIFE AND LETTERS by William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh

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The Complete Works of

JANE AUSTEN

By Delphi Classics, 2014

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The Novels

Jane Austen’s birthplace, Steventon Parsonage, Hampshire — sadly, no longer standing

George Austen, the author’s father

Steventon Church, where George Austen was rector for many years

Jane Austen as a child

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

Sense and Sensibility
was the author’s first novel to be published, although not her first to be written and completed. Thomas Egerton of the Military Library publishing house released the work in three volumes in 1811 and Austen used the pseudonym ‘A Lady’ for the novel. She had taken a substantial financial risk, paying for the publication, costing more than a third of her annual household income. Fortunately, the 750 copies of the first edition sold out and she was able to make a profit. The first draft of the work, titled
Elinor and Marianne
, was composed in the mid 1790’s when Austen was still in her teenage years. The early work was written in epistolary form and focused on the contrasting natures and attitudes of two sisters. Elinor is exceedingly restrained and reserved, while Marianne is excessively emotional and impetuous.  In
Sense and Sensibility
the sisters’ dispositions remain as they were in the first draft of the novel, although Austen creates a far more complex and ambiguous portrait of the benefits and flaws of each nature.

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