TITLE: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Volume 1: Sense and Sensibility/Pride and Prejudice/Mansfield Park (Modern Library Giant)  

AUTHOR: Austen, Jane  

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PUBLISHER: Modern Library, Date: 1992  

ISBN: 9780679600268  

FORMAT: Hardcover, 898 pages  

EDITION: First Edition Thus  

PRINTING [if applicable]: 4th Printing  

BOOK CONDITION: Very Good  

JACKET CONDITION: Very Good   

DIMENSIONS (if available): 8.25 x 5.50 x 1.50 in. approx.   

KEYWORDS: Jane Austen, Complete Novels, Volume 1, Sense, Sensibility, Pride, Prejudice, Mansfield, Park, Modern Library Giant  

DESCRIPTION: "An original author always invents an original world," Nabokov noted in his famous lecture on Mansfield Park, "and if a character or an action fits into the patterns of that world, then we experience the pleasurable shock of artistic truth, no matter how unlikely the person or thing may seem if transferred into what book reviewers, poor hacks, call 'real life." Jane Austen's world is the stratified society of the English provinces in the early nineteenth century, observed with a wit and understanding that are completely original and that make her characters as alive today as they were nearly two hundred years ago.

Sense and Sensibility, the product of more than a decade's labor, follows the divergent paths of harmonious love and opportunistic marriage through the stories of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood and the unscrupulous, self-advancing Lucy Steele and John Willoughby. Marriage is also the central concern of one of the most popular novels of all time, Pride and Prejudice, in which the proud Darcy Sense and Sensibility, the product of more than a decade's labor, follows the divergent paths of harmonious love and opportunistie marriage through the stories of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood and the unscrupulous, self-advancing Lucy Steele and John Wil-loughby. Marriage is also the central concern of one of the most popular novels of all time, Pride and Prejudice, in which the proud Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet play out their courtship, fallings-out, and reconciliation. Far more dark and introspective, Mansfield Park offers one of the most complex heroines of nineteenth-century literature, Fanny Price, an orphan who becomes the salvation of a great Tory estate. Their world, with its very distinct manners and setting, becomes timeless through Austen's great art.   

CONDITION: Shelf-wear to the dustjacket, edgewear and corners show slight degradation. Contents appear clean and unmarked. 

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