Jane Austen: Novels, Letters and Memoir (Novels of Jane Austen)

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Editor : Louise Ross
Introduction : David Gilson

Product Details

Binding : Hardcover
EAN : 9780415115629
Edition : 1
Number of Pages : 5918
Product Group : Book
Publication Date : 1994-12-01
Publisher : Routledge

ASIN : 0415115620

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Product Description

Here, republished for the first time,is the first edition text of Jane Austen's much loved classic masterpieces. A rare and inaccessible resource for most scholars, the first editions are unique documents in the history of English literature.

Synopsis

Here, republished for the first time, are the complete first edition texts of Jane Austen's much-loved classic master-pieces. A rare and inaccessible resource for most scholars, the first editions are unique documents in the history of English literature. Other subsequent editions of the novels were corrected, some by Jane Austen herself, and many spellings and much punctuation changed. The first editions are now so scarce and valuable that they are only available to a few scholars in major university collections. The first edition text of The Memoir by Austen's nephew includes engravings which were suppressed in subsequent printings. Lord Brabourne's editions of the first collected selection of Jane Austen's letters to her sister Cassandra and others also contains interesting illustrations not repeated in the few subsequent texts to be reprinted. This set of Austen's complete novels, her Memoir and Letters is an invaluable source for the scholar or enthusiast, now able to experience these classic texts in their original form.

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Here, republished for the first time, are the complete first edition texts of Jane Austen's much-loved classic master-pieces. A rare and inaccessible resource for most scholars, the first editions are unique documents in the history of English literature. Other subsequent editions of the novels were corrected, some by Jane Austen herself, and many spellings and much punctuation changed. The first editions are now so scarce and valuable that they are only available to a few scholars in major university collections.

The first edition text of The Memoir by Austen's nephew includes engravings which were suppressed in subsequent printings. Lord Brabourne's editions of the first collected selection of Jane Austen's letters to her sister Cassandra and others also contains interesting illustrations not repeated in the few subsequent texts to be reprinted.

This set of Austen's complete novels, her Memoir and Letters is an invaluable source for the scholar or enthusiast, now able to experience these classic texts in their original form.

About the Author

Josephine Ross has written on history and social history, and on style, but this is her first book on her lifetime enthusiasm, Jane Austen. She lives in London.

Customer Reviews

A recording no Emma lover should be without (2008-01-16)

3 identical reviews, none pertaining to this magical set of tapes! One of my most treasured possessions. If you already love Emma, you will be delighted by Prunella Scales' brilliant interpretation. If you didn't enjoy reading it, she may alert you to the wonderful humour you missed.I've listened to audio books of Austen, read by people who appear to have no understanding of what they read, and with her sometimes complex but always precise sentence structure, this can be very annoying and intrusive. Ms Scales reads Austen as if she had written it. Her Miss Bates and Mrs Elton are comic masterpieces. But she helps us sympathise with Emma too, even as we laugh at her.I heartily recommend this tape. (And Scales husband, Timothy West, did an equally superb reading of Barchester Towers, which I couldn't live without either).

Captivating (2003-07-04)

As elegant, witty and humane as her subject, Josephine Ross has provided a most readable and worthwhile complement to the Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, with which there is barely an overlap. Packed with good detail, well illustrated, these excellent essays written with sense and sensibility on a variety of topics should send newcomers scurrying to read Austen's works and stimulate the cognoscenti to take a fresh look. Stylishly and discreetly produced by Austen's own publisher, an unexpected bonus is the fine reproduction of the engraving of Opie's portrait of the beautiful Mary Wollstonecroft.

Captivating (2003-06-20)

As elegant, witty and humane as her subject, Josephine Ross has provided a most readable and worthwhile complement to the Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, with which there is barely an overlap. Packed with good detail, most aptly illustrated, these excellent essays written with sense and sensibility on a variety of topics should send newcomers scurrying to read Austen's works and stimulate the cognoscenti to take a fresh look. Stylishly and discreetly produced by Austen's own publisher, an unexpected bonus is the fine reproduction of the engraving of Opie's portrait of the beautiful Mary Wollstonecroft.

Captivating (2003-05-31)

As elegant, witty and humane as her subject, Josephine Ross has provided a most readable and worthwhile complement to the Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, with which there is barely an overlap. Packed with good detail, well illustrated, these excellent essays written with sense and sensibility should send newcomers scurrying to read Austen's works and stimulate the cognoscenti to take a fresh look. Stylishly and discreetly produced by Austen's own publisher, an unexpected bonus is the fine reproduction of the engraving of Opie's portrait of the beautiful Mary Wollstonecroft.

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