The First Jane Austen Omnibus [Sense and Sensibility; Mansfield Park; Persuasion]

Overview

Three Timeless Romances! Sense and Sensibility is the classic story of passion and divided hearts, of the dashing Darcy's tempestuous relationship with self-possessed, idealistic Elizabeth Bennet (Austen's favorite among her characters). Mansfield Park is another masterful Austen novel of misunderstood hearts seeking each other through the complications and confusions of their lives, an exploration of the themes of faith and constancy and the threat that city ways can pose to simpler ways of life. Persuasion is a gripping of romance, packed with irony, wit, and powerful characters that tells the story Anne Elliott, persuaded by her plotting family to reject the man she loves, and her attempt years later to rekindle that love. Here is the bargain of the year for Austen lovers, three uncut novels for one low price.

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Bio of Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775 at Steventon near Basingstoke, the seventh child of the rector of the parish. She lived with her family at Steventon until they moved to Bath when her father retired in 1801. After his death in 1805, she moved around with her mother; in 1809, they settled in Chawton, near Alton, Hampshire. Here she remained, except for a few visits to London, until in May 1817 she moved to Winchester to be near her doctor. There she died on July 18, 1817. As a girl Jane Austen wrote stories, including burlesques of popular romances. Her works were only published after much revision, four novels being published in her lifetime. These are Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Two other novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, were published posthumously in 1818 with a biographical notice by her brother, Henry Austen, the first formal announcement of her authorship. Persuasion was written in a race against failing health in 1815-16. She also left two earlier compositions, a short epistolary novel, Lady Susan, and an unfinished novel, The Watsons. At the time of her death, she was working on a new novel, Sanditon, a fragmentary draft of which survives.

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Renaissance E Books Inc.

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1.56 MB

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eBook ISBN

158873983X