Favourite Jane Austen Novels: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion
Published by Dover Publications, 1997, softcovers in slipcase, 13.6 cms x 21.7 cms x 5 cms, condition: new.
Three of the Austen's most popular works widely admired for their satiric wit, subtlety, and perfection of style brilliantly re-create the provincial world of the early-19th-century English countryside, focusing, respectively, on husband-hunting mothers and daughters, the humbling of proud lovers, and the return of a once-rejected lover.
Re-reading these amazing novels for the umpteenth time! This particular occasion was my Jane Austen Reading Group that is focusing this weekend on Sense and Sensibility. Jane Austen novels are always fresh, witty,ironic and so elegantly written, but above all there is always a brilliant cast of characters. It is hard to choose between the humor of Mr. Collins or the vanity of Sir Walter Eliot or the charm of Elizabeth or the gentleness of Anne or the trickiness of Lucy Steele or the devotion of Colonel Brandon - they are all so perfectly real and believable, as if one knew them. The plotting, too, in the novels takes one along so smoothly from incident to incident with an ineviatbility. Overlaying all this, of course, is Jane Austen's very moral universe in which character is destiny and self-knowledge the path.