The Essential Jane Austen Volume Two: Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, and Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

nov 2020 · Open Road Media

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Three classics about love, class, and social expectations by one of the greatest English authors of the nineteenth century.

This collection of Jane Austen’s novels includes three timeless classics.

Persuasion: A woman is pressured by her family to end her engagement to a man of modest means—then meets him again years later, when both of their circumstances have changed.

Northanger Abbey: A young woman besotted by gothic novels sees danger lurking everywhere, but she soon learns more about the perils of real life in this wise, satirical novel.

Pride and Prejudice: The basis of countless film and television adaptations, Austen’s tale of the Bennet family and Mr. Darcy is considered her masterpiece.

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Jane Austen (1775–1817) was an English novelist known for her fiction set among England’s landed gentry. She was the seventh of eight children and was educated mostly at home in Hampshire. Her best-known works include Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, and Emma. Although her novels, all of which were published anonymously, did not bring her fame during her lifetime, she is now one of the most widely read writers in the English language.