Jane Austen: The Complete Novels

This volume collects Austen's six completed novels of English gentry life, first published between 1811 and 1818: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. Each follows young women whose prospects turn on marriage, money, and the judgement of a small neighbourhood - country houses, Bath, and village visiting rather than public history. Recurring pressures are entail, entailment of feeling, parental folly, and the gap between charm and character. The book is a set of independent courtship comedies and moral studies, not a single continuous story or a biographical sampler of the author's life.

Bound in off-white woven jacquard cotton and silk blocked in colour with floral woodcut illustrations. Spine monogram with initials of each title by Ruth Rowland. Colour matching ribbon page marker. Gilded page edges. Housed in a green cloth-bound presentation box designed by Emily Benton, gilt printed with a floral pattern.