Jane Austen: The Complete Works

Resumen del libro

This title includes: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and, Love and Freindship. Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. Through her vivacious and spirited heroines and their circle, she paints vivid portraits of English middle-class life as the eighteenth century came to a close.

Each of the novels is a love story and a story about marriage - marriage for love, for financial security, for social status. But they are not mere romances; ironic, comic and wise, they are masterly studies of the society Jane Austen observed. The seven books in this box set contain some of the most brilliant, dazzling prose in the English language.

Biografía del autor

Jane Austen (1775-1817) nació en Hampshire, Reino Unido. Considerada hoy la primera gran novelista de la literatura inglesa, obtuvo cierto reconocimiento en vida, aunque no alcanzó el estatus canónico que posee actualmente hasta mucho después de su muerte. Llevó una vida tranquila, rodeada del cariño de su familia. La ironía sutil de su prosa y la profundidad de sus personajes han convertido su obra en un referente imprescindible de la literatura universal.