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OVERVIEW
The Complete Works Collection is proud to offer a landmark new edited and commented edition of the complete works of Jane Austen. For the very first time, EVERY PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED work of Jane Austen is available in a SINGLE VOLUME.
Jane Austen is arguably the greatest novelist in all of English literature. As G. Barnett Smith once declared, "In no instance is it possible to sum up the claims and characteristics of a writer of the first rank in a single phrase; but if it were demanded that we should attempt this in the case of Jane Austen, we should aver that her writings have not become obsolete, and never will become obsolete, because they are just and faithful transcripts of human nature. It is in this important respect that she is able to touch the hand of Shakespeare."
The author of such timeless classics as Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility and Emma, Jane Austen also left behind a sizable opus of unpublished works, plays, poems and letters, many of which are extremely rare and difficult to find in print. This collection brings together ALL of these writings with two essays on Jane Austen's life and literary legacy in a single, attractively priced Kindle volume.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
JANE AUSTEN, AN APPRECIATION
A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF JANE AUSTEN
THE MAJOR NOVELS
- SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
- PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
- MANSFIELD PARK
- EMMA
- NORTHANGER ABBEY
- PERSUASION
SHORT FICTION
- LADY SUSAN
UNFINISHED NOVELS
- SANDITON
- THE WATSONS
THE RARE WORKS
- SIR CHARLES GRANDISON, OR THE HAPPY MAN: A COMEDY
- PLAN OF A NOVEL
- THE COLLECTED POEMS
- THE COMPLETE PRAYERS
THE JUVENILIA
- FREDERIC AND ELFRIDA
- JACK AND ALICE
- EDGAR AND EMMA
- HENRY AND ELIZA
- THE ADVENTURES OF MR. HARLEY
- SIR WILLIAM MOUNTAGUE
- MEMOIRS OF MR. CLIFFORD
- THE BEAUTIFULL CASSANDRA
- AMELIA WEBSTER
- THE VISIT
- THE MYSTERY
- THE THREE SISTERS
- DETACHED PIECES
- ODE TO PITY
- LOVE AND FREINDSHIP
- LESLEY CASTLE
- THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND
- A COLLECTION OF LETTERS
- SCRAPS
- EVELYN
- CATHARINE
THE COLLECTED LETTERS
- LETTERS TO CASSANDRA
- LETTERS TO EDWARD AUSTEN
- LETTERS TO FANNY KNIGHT
- LETTERS TO ANNA AUSTEN LEFROY
- LETTER TO ALETHEA BIGG
- ADDITIONAL LETTERS
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EXCERPT
"She liked him. Sober-minded as she was, she thought him agreeable, and did not quarrel with the suspicion of his finding her equally so, which would arise, from his evidently disregarding his sister's motion to go, and persisting in his station and his discourse. If there are young ladies in the world at her time of life, more dull of fancy and more careless of pleasing, I know them not, and never wish to know them."
- From Sanditon (Unfinished Novel)
"Of Eastbourn, Mr. Gell
From being perfectly well
Became dreadfully ill
For the love of Miss Gill.
So he said with some sighs
I'm the slave of your i s
Ah! restore if you please
By accepting my e s."
- Austen's Poetry
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