Ok, who does not love Jane Austen's novels?! This is a collection of her stories in a nicely bound volume. I was familiar with three of her stories, but this is a collection of all her works. There is a forward that tells you about the author. Jane Austens storys are as relevent today in the relationships she builds. There is a cloth ribbon to mark your page and the cover is a pretty red and cream cloth pattern that looks lovely on your shelf. This is a nice addition to my forever book shelf. I received this volume from a goodreads giveaway, but I do recommend everyone to read Jane Austen.

Introduction

Sense and Sensibility Review
Pride and Prejudice Review
Mansfield Park Review
Emma Review
Northanger Abbey Review
Persuasion Review
Lady Susan Review

Ok, so I picked one that's the complete collection of her work however, this one specifically was not what I was looking for. You can find that one here:

http://www.amazon.com/Jane-Austen-Com...

It's cheap for a beautiful leather binded book and it encompasses all Jane's work, including the hidden gem Lady Susan.

I have Just finished reading Sense and Sensibility for the second time and it has me just in raptures of it brilliants of wording and story of love and love lost and the meaning in two sister finding love and happiness and to be growing up.

moving from the home they have always know on the death of the beloved father and finding them selves and their dear mother and younger sister of a small household in a cottage on a cousins land and making new quaintness in the friends and relatives of the cousin and finding their own growth in life and love.

I love this book and the movie of Emma Thompson did and the BBC version that was done a couple of years ago. I just feel in love with it all again and could not put it down.

I finished reading Pride and Prejudice for the third time early this morning at 2 am as i have been still sick so here is my review:

I love Pride and Prejudice and as i have read this three times i am just in love with it as i ever been. The story of a family of five girls Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine and Lydia.

Who live with their Affectionate and Silly Mother Mrs Bennett who has made it her's life's mission in getting them married as soon as she can and loves Jane her oldest the most as she clams she is the most handsome and dotes on her youngest Lydia and clashes with Elizabeth's character and consistently makes embarrassment to her two oldest daughters in her lack of manners, poise and responsibilities.

Their country gentlemen of a farther Mr Bennett who is bookish and not very well off in fortune and lacks responsibilities of been a great father in making sure his daughters have all the proper graces and sensibilities for society and though he dose want's his three younger daughters to be less silly and wild in society and has respect for his two older daughters specially Elizabeth,

They live in a state called Longbourn in fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire.

The book follows Elizabeth as the main female character and how she has to learn and realize issues in how to over come living a life in a British Regency in dealing with manners, education, mortality, upbringing and marriage.

The book has Three main male Characters;

Mr Bingley: A rich gentlemen of 4 to 5 thousand a year and has leased the grand estate of Netherfield Park and is very charming but sweet temper and modest in not over using his powers of wealth and society connections.

Mr Darcy: A very rich gentlemen of 10 thousand a year and has inherited the estate of Pemberley of Derbyshire, who at first is seen a a rudely proud unpleasant man.

Mr Wickham: A officer in the shire regiment of the army and is poor and very charming and uses this to every advantage he can get.

There are some other important characters in the book too:

Miss Charlotte Lucas: A 27 year old daughter of a Sir and is know as a spinster and looks on thing with sensibility and logic in how a you country lady should use every means to advantage and does not think of things and life in a romantic way. She is a close friend of Elizabeth.

Miss Bingley: Miss Bingley is Mr Bingley sister and is a very proud young lady and looks on every one of a low class as not worth her time and is very rude and arrogant.

Mr Collins : The cousin who is to inherent Mr Bennett estate on his death and is a clergyman and is rude and snobbish and opinionated and silly in how his manners are.

LADY CATHERINE DE BOURGH: IS MR DARCY'S AUNT AND IS VERY OPINIONATED AND DEMANDS RESPECT AND DOES NOT LIKE LOW CLASS MIXING WITH HIGHER CLASS WITHOUT A GOOD REASON AND DOSE NOT APPROVE OF MIX CLASS MARRIAGES AND IS IN MR COLLINS PARISH AND NEED TO BE WANTED AND OF USE .
MISS DARCY: IS THE YOUNGER SISTER OF MR DARCY AND IS VERY SHY AND GOOD TEMPER OF CHARACTER AND IS VERY YOUNG OF ONLY HER EARLY TEENS AND IS SOFTLY SPOKEN AND IS VERY ACCOMPLISHED.
MR AND MRS GARDNER: MRS BENNETT BROTHER AND IS WIFE, WHO ARE BETTER A MANNERS AND CLASS AND HAVE FOUR YOUNG CHILDREN AND IS VERY SENSIBLE WITH THEIR TIME AND MANNERS AND CONDUCT AND LOVES THEIR NIECES AND IS VERY NICE AND POLITE.
THE BOOK TALKS ABOUT WEALTH AND MARRIAGE AND MANNERS AND PRIDE AND PREJUDICE IN PEOPLE AND OF CIRCUMSTANCE AND OF RUMORS AND GOSSIP. THE BOOK ALSO TALKS OF LOVE AND ATTACHMENT AND HOW ANYONE CAN OVERCOME THEIR BIRTH, WEALTH AND PRIDE AND PREJUDICE OF MISTAKES TO BRING SELF AWARENESS OF CONDUCT AND MANNERS TO GIVE WHAT YOUR HEART TRULY DIERESES.

This is my full review on Mansfield Park:

This was my first time reading Mansfield Park, I had started before to try and read it but i only got a few pages in as i was not well at the time and unfortunately only tried to read it in it's entirely now.

I really love this story as it is different plot to most of Jane Austen's work that I have read- Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, as it tells you of three sisters at first how one married a Sir and becoming Lady Bertram and how then her other sister married a minister becoming Mrs Norris and then how the last sister eloped with an uneducated and poor sailor becoming Mrs Price and then how her two sister resolved all contact with her for many years, on the eve of having her 9th child Mrs Price writes a letter to her sister and asking to hopefully sponsor her new child and maybe help her older eight.

Sir Thomas with Lady Bertram and Mrs Norris decided to take on Mrs Price first born daughter Fanny who at this time is nine years old.

As the book progress you find how Fanny adjusted to life at Mansfield Park, at first she did not like it until her older cousin Edmund is kind and takes her under his wing. As though Mrs Norris is one who most fought to get Fanny to Mansfield to park, she is very cruel and belittling to Fanny and Lady Bertram is not much of use to any one even her own children much less to Fanny, Sir Thomas is not that kind to anyone and is a strict parent her older cousin Thomas dose take no interest in her ether and so do her two female cousins Maria and Julie . It is though when Fanny become a young lady that the story really starts.

Fanny at the time 18 and Her uncle the Rev, Norris has died and Sir Thomas think that Fanny will now live with Mrs Norris but Mrs Norris will not take her, so she remains at Mansfield Park.

The parish that Mrs and Rev. Norris lived in is then leased by Dr and Mrs Grant after this has happen Sir Thomas is called away on business in the west indies and upon him leaving his older daughter Maria gets engaged to Mr Rushworth and There is the arrival of Mr and Miss Crawford.

Mr Crawford is charming and very much becomes the rival of Mr Rushworth and also the reason of the Miss Bertram's become hostile to each other as they both fall in love with him and he has a vanity that use this to much amusement.

Miss Crawford was told to get attached to Mr Thomas Bertram but they do not get on and Mr Bertram them leaves to join his father in the west indies. She then become quite attached to Edmund much to Fanny's surprise and is heart broken over it as Edmund is shown to feel the same way.

The young group of people then go to Sotherton which is Mr Rushworth estate and the young people go there to see it and make observations on what should be done to it mostly Mr Crawford's opinion is the one most sort for.

As of being there they meet his mother Mrs Rushworth and Mr Crawford acts very a flirt to Maria and Fanny see much of this and thinks it wrong as Maria is to be Mr Rushworth wife. Miss Crawford and Edmund become much attach there and leave Fanny by herself and end up forgetting her.

After this ends Mr Bertram comes home with his friend Mr Yates and they talk of a play that happen in a home they dinned in. The play was Lovers Vows and as they talk of it Thomas decided that they should build a theater and but on a play.

Fanny and Edmund don't agree with this though Mrs Norris and Lady Bertram has said yes to the building a theater and acting of a play that is not yet decided, they know Sir Thomas will not approve of this and don't wish to be in it.

After everyone has decided to act Lovers Vows too and once everyone has a part except Fanny who dose not know or want to act and Julie who gets upset that Miss Crawford and Maria will be the lead females and as Julie is acting opposite Mr Crawford in the play as a lover, Julie decided not to be apart of it because of jealousy. Miss Crawford is now just needing a someone to play her lover in the play. Edmund decided he should do it so Miss Crawford dose not have to act with someone she dose not know and in hopes of not many people in the area to be involved too.

While they are all about to rehearse the first three acts Sir Thomas has come home surprisingly early and then calls off the play and Mr and Miss Crawford leave and Maria get married despite not loving or like Mr Rushworth anymore as she love Mr Crawford. After her marriage Julie goes with her and Mr Rushworth to London and Miss Crawford come back.

When Miss Crawford comes back she befriends Fanny and though Fanny is not very happy in this she still see Miss Crawford every few days and talks to her. Mr Crawford ends up coming back and make the decision to get Fanny to fall in love with him. When William Fanny's older brother comes to see her Sir Thomas thinks they should put on a ball and than that would sought of be Fanny's coming out. As he thinks Mr Crawford might make her an offer of marriage soon.

The morning after the ball Mr Crawford and William leave off to London to dine with his uncle who is an Admiral in the navy and Edmund goes to way to receive his orders of ordainment in the church.

After returning to Mansfield Mr Crawford informs Fanny of her brothers promotion to lieutenant which he helped do in hoping of her wanting to marry him and he then professes his love for her and wishes to marry her, She then refuses and he lets her be then another day he goes to her uncle and says that he loves her and wished to marry her, her uncle talks to her and her tells him she refuses and he the berates her and tells her she is ungrateful in all she has been given. Later he realizes that Mr Crawford acted to quick and not let her have the time to form an attachment herself so he makes up a plan.

After Mr Crawford leaves Sir Thomas send Fanny with William back to her parents house, Mr Crawford see Fanny there and still is in love with her, Fanny was told by Edmund that he will ask Miss Crawford to Marry him and Fanny is heart broken by this and is happy at first to be at her parents home though she is not much of use or loved there.

Fanny gets letters form Miss Crawford and her aunt Lady Bertram and she writes to them too. On one day she get a letter that her cousin Thomas is sick and Edmund has gone to him to look after him as Sir Thomas can not leave his wife so Fanny is still at her parents house and is hoping to return to Mansfield Park to help especially when she hears that Thomas is bought home by Edmund. She does not hear from them for a while except Miss Crawford who wants to know is Thomas will die and Fanny is disgusted in this as she knows Miss Crawford is hoping Edmund to then be rich.

Fanny then gets a letter from Miss Crawford telling her not to believe the rumors of her brother but Fanny has know idea what she means, Fanny's father Mr Price then makes comment on an article in the newspaper that Mr Crawford has run off with Mrs Rushworth.

Fanny at first thinks this is not true but she then finds out from Edmund that it is and not only that but Julie is eloped with Mr Yates. Edmund then comes to get Fanny and her sister Susan is invited along too. They welcome her home all but Mrs Norris who Maria was her favorite and blames Fanny for this happening. They end up finding out that Mr Crawford and Maria will marry after her divorcee sometime and Mrs Norris goes to live near them to help her favorite niece. Julie and Mr Yates are more welcomed at Mansfield and Thomas gets better and is a better son and person from being ill, Edmund then falls in love with Fanny and they marry and end up living in the parish on Mansfield Park.

I really love this story as it is a different plot and how it is developed to Jane Austen other works like Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. I am now up to reading Emma and i can only hope it to be a surprising enjoyable as Mansfield Park. I really love this and it was enjoyable read. I am really in love with all the diverse characters and how it talks of different and a more range of topics : Such as Social Satire and a mention of Trade Slavery in the west indies and even though Fanny is not a much loved character of Austen's I really enjoy her as she is very moral and is sensitive , kind, loving and even though in the last chapter it suggest that her being brought up like she did that she ended being a better person for it but i think that Fanny was not better or worse for her upbringing i think that just is who Fanny is as she is very strong in what she feels is wrong and will not be told otherwise.

I have finished Emma and this is my full review:

Emma is about a young women 21 years old, who lives with her father Mr Woodhouse, Mr Woodhouse is a wealthy gentlemen and is aging. Emma is his youngest daughter having his oldest Isabella married years before to a Mr John Knightly and they have five young children which him and Emma dote upon.

Emma is considered very accomplished and is seen as perfect in many peoples eyes especially her father and her former governess Miss Taylor now Mrs Weston who Emma match up with Mr Weston before the book started and weeding has just happen the day the book starts.

Mr Knightly is Mr John Knightly's brother is lives not far from Mr Woodhouse and Emma and enjoys spending time with them. He is the only one to see that Emma is not perfect and tries to get her to be less coincided and tries to all so to see others situation then think of them as lower class.

Emma thinks that she can match make anyone but this is not always a good thing as she makes a new friend in Harriet Smith a young girl of 17 and takes her under her wing and builds her up to be more than her class and wealth is. Like thinking herself to get a good marriage and a more wealthy husband then a young farmer who loves her.

As the book progresses you see Emma learn how sometimes her match making for Miss Smith is encouraging young men to become attached to herself then Miss Smith in the example Rev. Elton and once she rejects Rev. Elton he ends up going to Bath for a few weeks and ends up becoming engaged to a young women there.

Mrs Elton dose not like Emma and Emma dose not like her ether as Mrs Elton thinks of herself as very grand and wise but she really is mean and very proud of herself though she has no class or elegance in manners.

Mr Weston has a son to his first wife and when she died her brother and his wife took him to give him a better life. When Mr Frank Churchill comes his is a flirt and becomes very close to Emma and people think that they are attached but they are not though Emma herself said that she did like him but only wanted friendship.

Mr Churchill ends up announcing his engagement to Miss Fair fax after his aunt dies and miss Fair Fax think that his attachment has change since they became secretly engaged but it has not he just too convincing that he was not attached to anyone and is very must attached and loves her dearly and they end up working it all out and him and Emma are seen being very brotherly and sisterly to each other and value each others friendship.

Mr Knightly goes away for some time to London to visit his brother as he loves Emma and think her to be attached to Mr Churchill and him to her. But as he is away Emma realize she loves him and would be heart broken if he married anyone else.

Mr Knightly and Emma get engaged and Mrs Weston has a baby girl and they end up telling Mr Woodhouse and he gives his blessing and they end up deciding to stay at Mr Woodhouse estate then go to Mr Knightly's as Emma dose not wish to leave her poor father all alone and so dose Mr Knightly.

Miss Smith ends up marring the farmer Mr Robert Martin and Emma is glad because Miss Smith thought Mr Knightly was attached to her not Emma. They marry and Emma finds out that Miss Smith is just a Tradesman daughter and not the gentlemen's daughter she thought she was.

Mr Knightly marries Emma after Mr Robert Martin marries Miss Smith and they are all friends but Emma and Mrs Martin are not as close as they once were which Emma says is neutral.

Mr Knightly made Emma a better person and Emma made Mr Knightly a more open and happy man.

I really love this book as its plot and characters are very diverse and Emma grows to be a more understanding young women and ends up realizing she has been in love all along when she thought she would never be in love.


I finished Northanger Abby and I loved it. It is about a young girl of 17 named Catherine Morland and she is the first born daughter to her family and they are not rich but not too poor ether. They live in a parish and she has three older brothers and some younger brother and sisters too. She is not what anyone would call accomplished. As she is a tomboy and loves to read novels especially Gothic novels, she loves anything by Mrs Anne Radcliffe's.

When her neighbors Mr and Mrs Allens, invite her to go to Bath with them for a few weeks to see and taste the delights of the world that she dose not know much about. She becomes friends with a Isabella Thorpes and her brother and they do not like how she is friendly to the Tilney's.

Isabella and Catherine brother become attached and they plan a life together and they then have troubles and somethings happen.

Catherine meet Mr Henry Tilney and falls for him and she get invited to spend time at their home at Northanger Abby which his farther and sister live in as he lives on a Parish not far about 20 or so miles from them.

Catherine becomes friends with his sister Miss Tilney and they become good friends. Catherine's imagination get the best of her while she is there as she expects the Abby to be creepy and haunted but is surprised to find it is not well not really only when her imagination get up to no good it dose.

Catherine is what the narrator calls a heroine in training and is set out like a book inside a book which i think is really cool.

It has so much adventure and has twisted plots and drama too. I really love this book and hope you all will read it.

I finished Persuasion last night on the 25th of July 2015, I loved this book, I have been sick and running round to doctors when i started it and the yesterday i sat down at like 4 pm in the afternoon and started read and did not stop till i had read it all just before midnight.
This book is about a family - The Elliot's and It talks about eight years before how the main character Anne Elliot - The long suffering daughter, as at the age of 19 falls in love with a Captain Wentworth. But at the time he is poor and does not have the connections that Sir Elliot wishes from marriage of his three daughters.
Anne is persuaded to end the engagement and she is said to loose all her health and bloom, as it broke her heart to end the attachment. Anne's sister's are more noticed by Sir Elliot as he is a very vain man and loves his appearance and self and anyone not up to his standards are beneath him.
Mary her younger sister is married when you come to the eight years passed to Mr Musgrove and has two young boys and is not a very active women in mind, body, she feels hard done by if she if not the center of attention and she dose not try to even get her children's respect and they do not behave for her at all.
Elizabeth is the apple of Sir Elliot's eye and she is the mistress of Kellynch as their mother Lady Elliot

I used this edition to read Mansfield Park as I surprisingly don't own the book as a single edition. After finishing I am sure not to buy one in the future either as it is my least favourite Austen so far. I just can't shake the feeling of Fanny being an afterthought which depressed me greatly while reading.

Amazing! I love, love, love Jane Austen. My favorite is still Pride and Prejudice, but Emma and Sense and Sensibility are close seconds. I'd say my least favorite is Mansfield Park (something about Fanny Price kind of annoys me). I also found Lady Susan interesting because I didn't know anything about it before I read it.

I think I'll try choosing another author next year to read all of his/her novels (maybe Charles Dickens?). I liked watching the evolution of the writing and plot development as I read the novels chronologically.

In college, I got the crazy idea to join a book club. Crazy, I know. I think it had a lot to do with the professor, actually. I had, and still do have, a lot of respect for Dr. Haggerty, so I thought it would be a great chance to get some more interaction with him. Did I have the ulterior motive of a letter of recommendation in the back of my mind? Maybe. But that's besides the point. Jane Austen is Jane Austen. It's the chick lit of yesteryear. Not exactly my cup of tea, but still worth reading.

Dang!!! These books are long. But they are so good!! It's hard to pick which on is my favorite. But if I had to narrow it down to two... It had to be Emma and pride and prejudice:)

This is my favorite book of all time. Maybe it's because Elizabeth does eventually change Darcy (I'm sorry if you didn't already know that) and maybe it's because I'm a hopeless romantic. As old as it is, Pride and Prejudice is a book we can still connect with because it's a love story. At times, the story does become a little tedious because we don't still have balls the same way they did and we don't go stay at a friend's house for three weeks, but there is always a reason for those tedious things to happen; they are always essential to the story.

edição comprada para ler "lady susan" (as outras novelas foram lidas ao longo dos anos) e também para ter tudo num só volume. o aço austenítico é aquele que é essencialmente não-magnético. esta definição não se aplica claramente aos leitores que, austeníticos como eu, se sentem irresistivelmente atraídos pela obra de jane austen.

The novels of Jane Austen are among some of the most beloved, most read, and most adapted from the English language. Featuring memorable characters, locations, and narratives the “big four” Austen novels—Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma—all have similar narrative clichés, but all done in unique ways that makes each story fresh. The later three novels are a mixed back of youthful inexperience (Northanger Abbey), different tone (Persuasion), and unique literary style (Lady Susan) with mixed results. Overall, this is a great collection especially as it has all four of Austen’s major works together.

Sense and Sensibility (3.5/5)
Pride and Prejudice (4/5)
Mansfield Park (3.5/5)
Emma (2/5)
Northanger Abbey (1/5)
Persuasion (3/5)
Lady Susan (2.5)

My favorite is Pride and Prejudice. It makes me smile. Great characters and well developed story line. A romance that won't make you blush.