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.

In a remote Hertfordshire village, a country squire of no great means must marry off his five vivacious daughters. At the heart of this all-consuming enterprise lies the erratic courtship of his second headstrong daughter, Elizabeth Bennet and her aristocratic suitor - Fitzwilliam Darcy.

Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. This volume contains her seven great novels: Sense and Sensibility , Pride and Prejudice , Mansfield Park , Emma , Northanger Abbey , Persuasion , and Lady Susan .

'...in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up his wife, she had scarcely sinned against his character, or magnified his cruelty.' Northanger Abbey is about the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her imagination, as tyrannical fathers and ...

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.

Often said to be Jane Austen's most perfect novel, Emma is also the perfect read -- with a very imperfect -- but loveable -- heroine...

Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Woodhouse Emma organises the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village, but her attempts at matchmaking lead to misunderstandings and potential heartbreak. Only her friend and neighbour Mr Knightley dares to point out the mistakes she is making and encourages her to change her ways.

Having been persuaded to view the match as imprudent, Anne Elliot broke off her engagement to a naval officer with no prospects. Seven years later, when they meet again, Anne has the chance to recover the happiness she had forgone. This new edition examines Persuasion against the background of the Napoleonic Wars and includes fuller notes and appendices on social rank, dancing, and the Navy.

During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with the sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father's mysterious house, Northanger Abbey. There, Catherine imagines terrible crimes committed by General Tilney.

Contains three short works that show the author experimenting with a variety of different literary styles, from melodrama to satire, and exploring a range of social classes and settings. This title features Lady Susan , The Watsons and Sanditon .

Emma Woodhouse is content with her life and sees no need for marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of Mr Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protegee Harriet Smith, her plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected.

When Marianne Dashwood falls in love with John Willoughby, she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip. Meanwhile, Elinor is struggling to conceal her romantic disappointment. Through their experience of love, the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find happiness.

Two sisters, both on the brink of falling in love and living happily ever after. But can life ever be that simple?

Beautifully packaged version of this all-time classic - reissued to tie in with a major new BBC dramatisation. Great gift - and low price, introduced by Andrew Davies, master of TV's literary adaptations.

' Me! cried Fanny... Indeed you must excuse me. I could not act any thing if you were to give me the world. No, indeed, I cannot act. ' At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park. There she accepts her lowly status, and gradually falls in love with .

One of the greatest love stories ever told, beautifully repackaged for a modern teen audience

Quick-witted, beautiful, headstrong and rich, Emma Woodhouse is inordinately fond of matchmaking. Yet the irony is that she is oblivious to the question of who she herself might marry. Through this comedy of sentimental education, she discovers a capacity for love and marriage.

A fine edition for the price of an ordinary hardback - for anyone interested in a favourite classic in a beautiful volume, this edition has colourful cloth covers illustrated by a leading designer. It also has coloured page-tops, printed endpapers, elegant typesetting, a marker ribbon and uses thick, acid-free paper.

Contains six novels: Emma , Mansfield Park , Northanger Abbey , Persuasion , Sense and Sensibility , and Pride and Prejudice .

Published to coincide with the BBC TV four-part serialisation of EMMA in autumn 2009.