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Binding: Roughcut
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.7
EAN: 9780143039501
ISBN: 0143039504
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 1088
Publication Date: 2006-03-28
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Studio: Penguin Classics

Now in Penguin Classics—a treasure trove of Jane Austen’s novels

Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. Here in one volume are her seven great novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Lady Susan. Through her vivacious and spirited heroines and their circle, Austen vividly portrays English middle-class life as the eighteenth century came to a close and the nineteenth century began. Each of the novels is a love story and a story about marriage—marriage for love, for financial security, for social status. But they are not romances; ironic, comic, and wise, they are masterly evocations of the society Jane Austen observed. This beautiful volume covers the literary career of one of England’s finest prose stylists of any century.

“These modern editions are to be strongly recommended.”
—Brian Southam, The Jane Austen Society

Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Exactly what I ordered!
Review: Thank you, this was exactly what I ordered. Wish they had made a movie out of the rest of her novels!!

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Great for a personal Library
Review: If you love Jane Austen, this is an excellent book to have. It is nice to have all of her works in one location.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: You Get What You Paid For...
Review: I recently decided to do something that I had never had a chance to do for a LONG time, read. I mean reading actual books (not stuff on the internet, magazines, etc.). Getting back into the classics, my friend kept telling me to read Jane Austen. Back when I was a teenager my attempt to read Jane Austen totally fell flat (and unlike so many other reviewers, I was not ever required to read anything of Jane Austen (even up to my AP English Lit. class)...so fast forward to the present, where in my attempts to actually read and read classics...I decided to give her another shot. So I purchased the book because I love to have anthologies/omibuses as I get through books REALLY fast.

The book is exactly what I paid for. It is a bit pricey for a paperback, but when you are really reading you tend to think about other stuff. The reviewer who has problems with the font (without having poor eyesight) made me a bit confused. I am 27, and I don't have the best eyesight but I can easily read this a bit over 12 feet away from my face as I love to read while reclining or with the book on my lap (it is pretty hefty to have it not rest on something after a while). The only small font that I see is the

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Hard to read paperback
Review: After watching the Jane Austin Book Club, my wife and I decided to read the complete Jane Austin books to better understand the first movie. I purchased a paperback edition from Amazon.com, which arrived in a few days. The book, published by Penguin Paperbacks, has an uneven cut in the binding. The pages stick out like it had come apart and been re-glued. The paper, since it is a paperback, is an off white that with the small print is too hard for my aging eyes to read, although younger readers may not have a problem. In order to read the books, I went online and found the entire series for free since it is in the public domain. I am reading the book on my laptop instead where I can increase the font size for easier reading.

The stories, of course, are worthwhile reading. More is understood than just what the videos on PBS and BBC shows, as is always the case when comparing books to film. But, for $[...], it is nice to have a hard copy of the books.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Mobilereference Illustrated Edition
Review: Just a quick note to let folks know that the Mobilereference edition illustrated is very nice. Most reviews speak of other publishers editions besides this specific one.
There lots of illustrations for all novels but none for Lady Susan.

Download a sample of the book as it is quite generous in size.

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