Synopses & Reviews
Review
"A superb edition--the best available."--Gregory Maertz, St. John's University
"A good, inexpensive edition with helpful notes and annotations."--Sarah V. Cleve, Mount Olive College
"Good edition, reasonably priced."--Gillian Skinner, California State University
Synopsis
'3 or 4 Families in a Country Village is the very thing to work on', Jane Austen wrote, in September 1814, to a niece with literary ambitions. The advice undoubtedly reflected Jane Austen's satisfaction with her own work in progress, a novel in which the village of Highbury provides the setting for the moral and emotional education of Emma Woodhouse, a heroine 'handsome, clever, and rich' but spoiled by 'the power of having rather too much her own way and a disposition to think a little too well of herself'.
Table of Contents
v. 1. Sense and sensibility -- v. 2. Pride and prejudice -- v. 3. Mansfield Park -- v. 4. Emma -- v. 5. Northanger Abbey ; Persuasion -- v. 6. Minor works.