The Complete Novels of Jane Austen (Annotated)

Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Lady Susan — With Critical Afterwords

De: Jane Austen

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Seven novels. One writer. The most perfect intelligence in English fiction.

Edited with afterwords by Henry Bugalho — philosopher, writer, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Published by Erato Press.

This volume brings together every novel Jane Austen completed — the full measure of a writer who saw more clearly into the human heart than anyone before or since, and who did it in drawing rooms, with teacups, while the world pretended nothing serious was happening:

✦ Sense and Sensibility (1811) — Two sisters, two ways of navigating a world that offers women nothing but the choice between self-suppression and ruin ✦ Pride and Prejudice (1813) — The novel that taught the English language how wit and desire can occupy the same sentence ✦ Mansfield Park (1814) — Austen's most uncomfortable novel, and the one that refuses to let its heroine — or its reader — off easy ✦ Emma (1815) — A portrait of a brilliant young woman who understands everything except herself — and the most intricate structure Austen ever built ✦ Northanger Abbey (1817) — A comedy that pretends to mock the gothic novel and quietly becomes one ✦ Persuasion (1817) — Austen's last completed novel, and her most devastating — the story of a second chance that almost doesn't come, written by a woman who was running out of time ✦ Lady Susan — The novella Austen never published, and perhaps the most transgressive thing she ever wrote: a portrait of female intelligence unrestrained by conscience

THE ART OF JANE AUSTEN — A Critical Afterword by Henry Bugalho

This edition includes an original critical essay that reads Austen's seven novels not for what they declare but for what they struggle to say — the silences that organize her fiction from below. The sexual reality that is almost entirely absent. The economic desperation that simmers beneath every marriage plot. The consciousness that perceives the world not as it is but as it needs the world to be. And the extraordinary discovery that Austen's novels do not finally resolve — they continue to resist interpretation, continue to suggest that there is always something more happening beneath the surface than any reading can exhaust.

ALSO INCLUDED:

✦ Jane Austen: A Life in Letters and Silence — A biographical essay on a woman who left almost no private record of her inner life, and what that silence itself reveals ✦ The World of Jane Austen: England in the Age of Revolution — A historical essay reconstructing the world of war, class, and empire that Austen's drawing rooms simultaneously contain and conceal

THIS EDITION INCLUDES: ✦ The complete, unabridged text of all seven novels ✦ Three original critical, biographical, and historical essays by Henry Bugalho ✦ Professional formatting for Kindle

For readers who love: Jane Austen • Pride and Prejudice • Emma • Persuasion • Classic British literature • Regency fiction • English novels with critical analysis • Literary collections

She wrote six novels and a novella. She published them anonymously. She died at forty-one. Two centuries later, no one has surpassed her.