Books in Jane Austen Collection series

This Regency drawing-room comedy follows the development of sweet, honest and courageous Fanny Price from the shy little poor girl into the woman who marries her cousin, the goody-goody clergyman Edmund Bertram. Fanny could be looked upon as almost insufferably good, virtuous and dull, if she were not presented with such imagination and placed among the many diverse and interesting people who frequent the house of Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram at Mansfield Park.

In this classic novel full of spirit and wit, Jane Austen introduces the delightfully gullible Catherine Morland. Catherine arrives into eighteenth century Bath society bursting with freshness, integrity and a passion for wildly fantastic and macabre Gothic novels. When Henry Tilney invites her to his ancestral home, Northanger Abbey, Catherine sees a mystery unfold before her very eyes. With her head full of defenceless maidens, sinister castles and heroes charging on white horses, Catherine is convinced her fantasies are coming true. Will her chance of love be destroyed?

Emma Woodhouse, spoilt and self-willed, is convinced she knows what is right for other people, especially in matters of the heart. She is, of course, invariably wrong. Wrong about Robert Martin and the pretty, empty-headed Harriet; about Harriet and the young vicar; about rich Frank Churchill and poor Jane Fairfax. While scheming and flirting, Emma nearly loses the one person who has always loved her, and it is a very contrite heroine who thankfully accepts his proposal.

In a publishing career that spanned less than a decade, Jane Austen revolutionized the literary romance, using it as a stage from which to address issues of gender politics and class-consciousness rarely expressed in her day. The Collection included 'Sense and Sensibility', 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Mansfield Park', 'Emma', 'Northanger Abbey', 'Persuasion', and 'Lady Susan' - represent all of Austen's mature work as a novelist, and provide the reader with an introduction to the world she and her memorable characters inhabited. Also added to this beautiful collection the readers can find the Letters of Jane Austen and a Memoir made by James Edward Austen-Leigh.