Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy misjudge each other in a comedy of marriage, income, and pride. Austen’s second published novel is still the surest entrance to her shelf.
Author
Jane Austen
Austen wrote six finished novels about money, rank, and judgment in English gentry life. The wit is social rather than sentimental: people reveal themselves by what they notice.
Emma
Emma
by Jane Austen
Emma Woodhouse has money, leisure, and a talent for arranging other people’s lives. The novel lets her be charming and wrong in the same sentence.
Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
Two sisters, turned out of their home, try sense and feeling as ways of surviving love and reduced means. It was Austen’s first published novel.
Persuasion
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
Anne Elliot broke an engagement years ago and has had to live quietly with the decision. A return of the man she refused gives the book its second chance.
Northanger Abbey
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
Although the title page is and the novel was published posthumously in 1817 with Persuasion, Northanger Abbey was completed. From a fondness of Gothic novels and an active imagination distorting her worldview, the story follows Catherine Morland, the naïve young protagonist, as she develops a better understanding of herself and the world around her.
Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility (working title: Elinor and Marianne) is the debut novel by English author Jane Austen, appearing. Sense and Sensibility was published anonymously: By A Lady appears on the title page where the author's name might have been.