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Jane Austen
Collectors Library Editions These beautiful complete and unabridged hardback collector’s library editions are bound in real cloth, with all edges gilt, head and tailbands and a ribbon marker. The Novels of Jane Austen Jane Austen is perhaps the best-loved of all English novelists. Her knowledge of human nature is remarkable, and her awareness of the importance of class, money and appearances makes her a peculiarly modern author. She addresses the politics of dating, courtship and mating with an incisive intelligence that both foreshadows and outstrips romantic novels of today. The Complete Six Book Collection £39.99

	Emma 590 pages Handsome, clever and rich, Miss Emma Woodhouse has no responsibilities other than the care of her indulgent father. Precious and spoilt, Emma is charming to all those around her but insensitive to their feelings, so it takes her some time to stop worrying about how other people should live their lives and redeem herself in the eyes of Mr Knightley, her sternest critic.	Mansfield Park 583 pages is a novel about town and country, surface dazzle and lasting values. Fanny Price, a poor relation of the wealthy Bertram family, is brought up at their country house and falls in love with Edmund their younger son. Their apparently settled life is torn apart by the arrival of the wordly Crawfords. Mary Crawford sets her cap at Edmund; her brother Henry proposes to Fanny, who loathes him for toying with her cousins, the daughters of the house.

	Northanger Abbey 301pages is the story of Catherine Morland, an enthusiastic but naive girl intent on becoming a heroine like the ones she has read about in popular novels. Searching for romance and adventures worthy of her favourite works of fiction, she becomes entangled in an authentic world of manipulation, greed and disloyalty.	Persuasion 312 pages Jane Austen’s final novel is the story of Anne Elliot, a woman who gets a second chance. As a teenager she becomes engaged to a man who seems perfect for her, Frederick Wentworth, but she is persuaded to break off the engagement. Eight years later, they meet again, but their circumstances have changed. Will they rediscover their love, or, will their changed fortunes inhibit their feelings?

	Pride and Prejudice 490 pages is a delightful social comedy and timelessly affecting love story. Elizabeth Bennet is a headstrong young woman whom no man seems capable of taming; Fitzwilliam Darcy is the arrogant landowner who disdains to think it would be worth his trying to do so.A tour de force of wit and sparkling dialogue.	Sense and Sensibility 462 pages is a chronicle of romantic misfortunes, narrated with irony and a sharp eye for hypocrisy. A powerful drama of family life, it portrays two very different sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, one practical and disciplined the other capricious and emotional, who share a troubled and impoverished background, from which they both struggle to achieve the happiness they deserve.

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