Jane Austen commenced writing in her adolescence and continued right up to her untimely death in 1817. Her novels are reflections of the socially constricted world in which she lived, and the plots are built around the search of one or more young women for a suitable spouse. Austen’s works are noted for the perceptive elegance of her prose and for vigor and detail of characterization. Celebrated critic F. R. Leavis considered Austen as one of the four great English novelists, along with George Eliot, Henry James, and Joseph Conrad.

This collection contains the following titles:Sense and Sensibility (1811)Pride and Prejudice (1813)Mansfield Park and Lovers’ Vows (1814)Emma (1816)

Works published posthumously: Northanger Abbey (1818)Persuasion (1818)Lady Susan (1871)

Unfinished works:The Watsons (1871); completed by L. Oulton (1923)Sanditon: Fragment of a Novel (1925)