Jane Austen: The Complete Works: Classics hardcover boxed set (A Penguin Classics Hardcover) Review
- Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. Through her vivacious and spirited heroines and their circle, she painted vivid portraits of English middle-class life as the eighteenth century came to a close. Each of these novels is a love story and a story about marriage—marriage for love, for financial security, for social status. But they are not mere romances. Ironic, comic, and wise, they are masterly studies of the society Austen observed. The seven books in this box set—Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Love and Freindship (early writings and juvenilia)—contain some of the most brilliant, dazzling prose in the English language. Part of Penguin’s beautiful Hardcover Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
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“I gave it four stars because it was a shrink wrapped box set, but each book had a price sticker on it. This wouldn’t be a problem except that when removing the stickers, they took off the pink coloring on the book cover. I got these because the covers are beautiful, so it made me mad that a few of them are ruined now.” By Melissa
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Product Details
Author: Jane Austen
Kindle Price: Hardcover $95.36
Series: A Penguin Classics Hardcover
Hardcover: 3120 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics; Box edition (November 24, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0141395206
ISBN-13: 978-0141395203
Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 8.3 x 9.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,905 in Books
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