Jane Austen (Set Of 5 Books)

1. Pride and Prejudice :- A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”*Pride** and Prejudice *beautifully caricatures a growing romance between Austen’s own ‘darling child’ Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy. One of the most popular writings by Jane Austen, the novel is a melting pot of love and passion revolving around the notions of class-structure and marriage.The crisscross interweaving of characters marks a distinctive tradition in narration. The novel ventures the readers through an adventurous journey of incidents occasionally hindered by the loathsome Mr. Collins and Wickham that falsifies the notion of ‘First Impressions

2. Persuasion :- “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope…I have loved none but you.” The last completed novel by Jane Austen, Persuasion is perhaps the most moving of her works. The plot follows 27-year-old Anne Elliot, one of Austen’s few adult heroines, as she grapples with a life full of ups and downs. Happily engaged to the charming naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, Anne abruptly breaks off the engagement, when persuaded by her ill-meaning friends. A decision borne in contention and strife, years later, she’s struck by regret, of a love found and lost. Poignant and bittersweet, Persuasion is one of the most entrancing novels in the English language.

3. Sense and Sensibility :- Jane Austen’s first published novel, Sense and Sensibility is a wonderfully entertaining tale of flirtation and folly that revolves around two starkly different sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. While Elinor is thoughtful, considerate and calm, her younger sister is emotional and wildly romantic. Both are looking for a husband, but neither Elinor’s reason nor Marianne’s passion can lead them to perfect happiness as Marianne falls for an unscrupulous rascal and Elinor becomes attached to a man who’s already engaged. Starting secrets, unexpected twists and heartless betrayals interrupt the marriage games that follow. Filled with satiric wit and subtle characterizations, Sense and Sensibility teaches that true love requires a balance of reason and emotion.

4. Mansfield Park :- Mansfield Park, considered to be Jane Austen’s most ambitious novel, was first published in July 1814. The novel not only reflects Austen’s superb narrative craftsmanship, but also her brilliant sensitivity to the human concerns of love,virtue and family.When shy,timid,ten-year-old Fanny Price is plucked from her large, lively and somewhat impoverished family in Portsmouth to live with wealthy relatives in Mansfield Park her life is changed for ever. Immediately forming a strong fascination for her cousin, Edmund Bertram, she develops into a sophisticated and mature young woman, whose love for him remains undimmed despite the distraction brought into their lives by the charming but morally bankrupt Crawford’s. With its suggestion of adultery and written with all the wit and style of the mature Jane Austen, this is the work of an increasingly experienced writer at the peak of her powers.

5. Northanger Abbey :- Jane Austen’s posthumously published novel, *Northanger Abbey*, is a delightful satire of the period’s Gothic novels, poking fun at romantic follies of the genteel classes.When seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland, a country clergyman’s daughter, is invited to spend a season in Bath with the fashionable high society, little does she imagine the delights and perils that await her. Introduced to the joys of Gothic novels by her new friend, Isabella Thorpe, Catherine yearns for romance and mystery. Her expectations soar when she is invited to stay with the beguiling Henry Tilney and his family in Northanger Abbey. Because she has been reading Ann Radcliffe’s gothic novel *The Mysteries of Udolpho*, Catherine expects mystery and intrigue at every turn. However, the truth turns out to be even stranger than fiction.