Jane Austen 6-Book Boxed Set: Containing: Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion - all illustrated (Collector's Library)

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For further information about your statutory rights, contact your local authority Trading Standards department or consumer advice center (for example the Citizen's Advice Bureau if you are in the UK). The story of a young woman trying to find her place in society, this classic coming of age story was revolutionary for its time. of our deliveries are made by Royal Mail as we think they give the best service and cover all areas of the UK. Following her father’s unexpected retirement, the Austen family moved to Bath with Jane spending time in Southampton and Lyme Regis (locations recognisable in her later fiction).

Having grown up with the landscape of the Yorkshire Moors beside them, their books are often gothic and dark whilst presenting the social climate facing young women at the time. Marianne and Elinor Dashwood are complete opposites: Marianne is as open to love as Elinor is guarded and sensible.There is the seventeen- year-old Catherine Morland, who loves such books and readily believes such mysterious and dark events to be afoot in her own world. The novel was a huge commercial success (although not for Jane herself, the novels being published anonymously) with the first edition selling out completely by 1813. One of Jane Austen's most iconic works, Pride and Prejudice chronicles the lives of the Bennet sisters in Regency England -Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine and Lydia. Beautifully packaged in a ridged, matt-laminated slipcase with metallic detailing, complete with strikingly attractive, bespoke artwork.

The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. A stunning new Clothbound Classics edition of Jane Austen's tantalizing final work - set to be a major Andrew Davies ITV adaptation this autumnWritten in the last months of Austen's life, Sanditon features a glorious cast of hypochondriacs and speculators in a newly established seaside resort, and shows the author contemplating a changing society . If you already own some of the individual books from this collection, you can complete the collection by purchasing the remaining books at a 40% discount. We mainly use Royal Mail Tracked 48 Service for goods which weight less then 2kg, all other goods will be delivered by a Courier. For further information about your statutory rights, contact your local authority Trading Standards department or consumer advice centre (for example the Citizen's Advice Bureau if you are in the UK).

Her books remained out of print for 12 years until publisher Richard Bentley purchased the rights and issued the first inexpensive, single-volume illustrated editions in his Standard Novels series.