Sense and Sensibility: The Bicentenary Edition All that is old becomes new again in this annotated and illustrated version of Sense and Sensibility
Oxford World's Classics: Persuasion A tale of the pain and peril of human isolation not quite overcome, a modern book: Persuasion. Better known and somewhat misunderstood as a story of reprieve & retrieval: joy snatched from a descent into ever-increasing age, illness and deat...
Persuasion: An Overview Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, completing it in August, 1816. She died, aged 41, in 1817, but Persuasion was not published until 1818.
Persuasion is connected with Northanger Abbey no...
The latest Oxford edition of Emma Emma. The book of books. A remarkable novel where when a story or character suggestively goes through Emma’s mind since she half-gets it wrong, and sees it partially, we are invited to imagine it whole—so one novel becomes many in potential.
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Emma: An Overview Emma, by Jane Austen, first published in December 1815, is a comic novel about the perils of misconstrued romance. The author explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively 'comedy ...
Mansfield Park: A Review Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
While I’m not sure we really know how Mansfield Park rates among groups of readers, and there is evidence to suggest that like the other four novels beyond Pride and Prejudice, this one pleases slightly different ...
Mansfield Park: An Overview Henry has finished "Mansfield Park," and his approbation has not lessened. He found the last half of the last volume extremely interesting.
Jane Austen to Cassandra
March 9, 1814
Mansfield Park is a novel by Jane Austen, written at Chawton Cottage b...
Oxford World's Classics: Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice
By Jane Austen
Gentle readers, here we are again, with diptych reviews of what turns out to be a reissue by Oxford in 2008 of its 2004 edition of Pride and Prejudice. I have complemented Laurel Ann’s review (from Austenprose). L...
Pride and Prejudice: An Overview I hope you received my little parcel by J. Bond on Wednesday evening, my dear Cassandra, and that you will be ready to hear from me again on Sunday, for I feel that I must write to you today...I want to tell you that I have got my own darling child f...
Oxford World's Classics: Sense and Sensibility Sense and Sensibility
By Jane Austen
Introduction by Margaret Anne Doody
I was delighted when Laurel of Austenprose asked me to join her in writing reviews of the recent reprint of the Oxford standard editions of Austen’s novels. I’d get ...
Sense and Sensibility: An Overview
No, indeed, I am never too busy to think of S. and S. I can no more forget it than a mother can forget her sucking child; and I am much obliged to you for your inquiries. I have had two sheets to correct, but the last only brings us to Willoughb...
Sanditon: A Completion Sanditon
By Jane Austen and Another Lady
"When Charlotte Heywood accepts an invitation to visit the newly fashionable resort of Sanditon, she is introduced to a full range of polite society, from the local reigning dowager Lady Denham and her impov...
Oxford's Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon A Journey through Jane Austen's career
Northanger Abbey: An Overview Jane Austen's final novel...or was it a first?
