Authors: Jane Austen
ISBN-13: 9781400532605, ISBN-10: 1400532604
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Date Published: February 2010
Edition: 6-volume set
Jane Austen's delightful, carefully wrought novels of manners remain surprisingly relevant, nearly 200 years after they were first published. Her novels -- Pride and Prejudice and Emma among them -- are those rare books that offer us a glimpse at the mores of a specific period while addressing the complexities of love, honor, and responsibility that still intrigue us today.
Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775 in the village of Steventon in Hampshire, England. She died in Winchester, England, on July 18, 1817.
Known for her cheerful, modest, and witty character, Austen had a busy family and social life, but as far as we know very little direct romantic experience. There were early flirtations, a quickly retracted agreement to marry the wealthy brother of a friend, and a rumored short-lived attachment while she was traveling that has not been verified. Despite that, she bequeathed the world Pride & Prejudice, one of the most delightful and engrossingly readable courtships known to literature, written by precocious Austen when she was just twenty-one years old. In the words of Eudora Welty, Pride & Prejudice is as "irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be."
Our new paperback Austen Library, culled from the Barnes & Noble Classics series, brings together all six of her published novels: