The Complete Cambridge Jane Austen 8 Volume Hardback Set: The Collector's Edition 8-vol Boxed Set Limited Edition

by Jane Austen, Janet Todd (Editor)

Overview

A treasure for those newly discovering Jane Austen as much as for those long familiar with her extraordinary oeuvre and its influence, this authoritative and attractive new edition is accessible and informative for readers at all levels. With helpful contextual notes and enlightening prefaces, it presents the reader with the six celebrated published novels alongside the unpublished writings, from Austen's youth to her final years. Released to coincide with the 250th anniversary of Austen's birth, the set is beautifully presented, including illustrations drawn by Austen's sister Cassandra to accompany her childhood piece 'The History of England', as well as Austen's poems, unfinished novels and a selection of letters in which she offers advice on writing fiction. Taken together, the volumes allow the reader to follow Jane Austen's creative development, observe her craft of fiction and experience her world with more clarity than ever before.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781009421256
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/08/2025
Series:	The Cambridge Jane Austen
Pages:	2816
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 8.70(h) x 5.40(d)

About the Author

Janet Todd is a critic, editor, novelist and biographer of Aphra Behn, Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughters, and Irish pupils. Her latest novel is Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden (2021). Todd taught at Rutgers, UEA, Glasgow and Aberdeen. A former President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, she is now an Honorary Fellow of Newnham College.

Date of Birth:

December 16, 1775

Date of Death:

July 18, 1817

Place of Birth:

Village of Steventon in Hampshire, England

Place of Death:

Winchester, Hampshire, England

Education:

Taught at home by her father

Table of Contents

Childhood Writings; Northanger Abbey; Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Emma; Persuasion; Later Manuscripts.

Editorial Reviews

‘This complete collection of Jane Austen is an outstanding testament of her life's work.’ Kymani Armstrong-Williams, Physics Book Reviews

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