Mr and Mrs Bennet live with their five daughters at Longbourn in Hertfordshire. Jane, the eldest, falls in love with Charles Bingley, a rich bachelor who takes a house nearby with his two sisters and friend Fitzwilliam Darcy. Darcy is attracted to the second daughter, Elizabeth.

Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her behaviour leaves her open to gossip. Meanwhile, Elinor is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment.

Emma is considered by many to be Austen's finest and most representative novel. The story of Emma Woodhouse's matchmaking, and her awakening to the true feelings of others as well as herself, is told with consummate wit and humour. This new edition contains lively notes and an introduction that explores how Austen transmutes the everyday into the revelatory.

At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other?

Taken from the poverty of her parents' home, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. When the Crawfords arrive in the neighbourhood, they bring the glamour of London life with them.

During her first season at Bath, a young girl experiences the joys of fashionable society. When her sophisticated new aquaintances invite her to their father's mysterious house, she fabricates her own Gothic romance, imagining the crimes that have been committed there.

Six people five women and a man meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounded in different ways, they are all mixed up about their lives and relationships. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable under the ...

Jane Austen's letters afford a unique insight into the daily life of the novelist: intimate and gossipy, observant and informative, they bring alive her family and friends, her surroundings and contemporary events with a freshness unparalleled in modern biographies.

Jane Austen is without question, one of England's skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's charismatic heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published. This book presents her complete works.

From the author's study of the Austen family papers, this title paints a picture of the Austen clan and their neighbours, and concludes that the facts of Jane Austen's life were even more extravagant and romantic than her fiction.

Bestselling novelist with an enormous critical reputation takes on one of the most popular and enduring English novelists of all.

Uncovers Jane Austen's memoirs. Detailing a love affair the author was apparently determined to keep secret, this title offers readers insights into Jane's mind and heart.

The BBC's lavish adaptation of Pride and Prejudice , starring Colin Firth, was eighteen months in the making and continues to captivate audiences. This title contains colour photographs, interviews and illustrations. It follows a typical day's filming, including the wholesale transformation of Lacock village into Jane Austen's Meryton.

Alexandra Potter makes dreams come true in this fun, feel-good fairy-tale about life, love and dating literatures most eligible bachelor

A celebration of the life and times of Jane Austen, as revealed in her letters, illuminated by many contemporary illustrations. It aims to bring to life the world she inhabited - the Hampshire countryside and social life in Bath and London.

This is the story of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, two strikingly different sisters. Forced to move to a cottage in Devonshire after their father's death, the sisters both fall in love with men whom they discover are not what they seem.

An in-depth look at Jane Austen's life and times that brings to life the world of her novels.

Elizabeth Bennet is the wittiest and most attractive heroine in English literature. This title gives you the opportunity to star in her novel: Pride and Prejudice . Whether you accept Mr Darcy the first time he professes his attachment, or decide to elope with Mr Wickham, it confronts you with delicate challenges and dangerous choices.

This unique edition brings together for the first time Austen-Leigh's memoir of his aunt Jane Austen, together with shorter recollections by James Edward's two sisters. It also includes Jane's brother Henry's two biographical accounts.