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Jane Austen


Born
in Steventon Rectory, Hampshire, England
December 16, 1775

Died
July 18, 1817

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Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage for the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works are an implicit critique of the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. Her deft use of social commentary, realism and biting irony have earned her acclaim among critics and scholars.

The anonymously published Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1816), were a modest success but br
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Pride and Prejudice

4.30 avg rating — 4,975,853 ratings — published 1813 — 569 editions
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Sense and Sensibility

4.09 avg rating — 1,330,423 ratings — published 1811 — 255 editions
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Emma

4.05 avg rating — 1,016,399 ratings — published 1815 — 249 editions
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Persuasion

4.15 avg rating — 804,651 ratings — published 1817 — 271 editions
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Northanger Abbey

3.85 avg rating — 468,802 ratings — published 1817 — 124 editions
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Mansfield Park

3.86 avg rating — 388,322 ratings — published 1814 — 137 editions
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Lady Susan

3.67 avg rating — 55,521 ratings — published 1871 — 2602 editions
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The Complete Novels

4.57 avg rating — 34,192 ratings — published 1981 — 258 editions
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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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