LOT OF 4 JANE AUSTEN BOOKS

LOT OF 4 JANE AUSTEN'S BEST LOVED NOVELS
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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
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Jane Austen's delightful, first published novel, is the sotry of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, whose opposing qualities of character provide the conflict for this book and the title.
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Elinor, prudent, deliberate, rational has Sense. Mariannce, responding to life with excessive feeling and little caution, has Sensibility. Both are unfortunate in love. Elinor fancies a young man who is committed to another girl; Marriane is in love with a scoundrel.
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Faced by this hopeless and suspenseful situation, Jane Austen works out a quiet truimph for Sense, with all the artistry that has placed her among the most beloved of English novelists.
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MANSFIELD PARK
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Of Jane Austen's novels, Mansfield Park is unique in its moral design, with a heroine far different from the author's previous creations. This young last, Miss Fanny Price, the poor relation of a wealthy family, possesses only natural goodness to aid her against a dazzingly witty and lovely rival as they compete for the man they both love. Her ultimate triumph is one of character over personality, purity of heart over brillance of manner, in a tale that constitutes a sharply pointed attack on social sham. Written with the sytylistic grace and delicate perception that distinguish the entire Austen canon, Mansfield Park, stands as one of the most complex and fascinating achievements of a writer ranked by Virginia Woolf as "the most perfect artist among women." It is, as Marvin Mudrick declares, "the first novel that Jane Austen wrote in the maturity of her powers...a long novel, her longest, and its length is an index of magnitude."
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PERSUASION
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In this, Jane Austen's last novel, appears her most memorable heroine--Anne Elliot, a young woman of perfect breeding, profound depth of emotion, and unswerving integrity. These virtues, however, exist in a world--the world of country gentry in Regency England--in which shallowness and hypocrisy trhive and ever threatened to win dominion. It is Anne's poised confrontation with these forces, as she vies for the affections of the man she loves, which gives shape to a work whch displays Jane Austen's rich maturity of bision and her newfound sense of human potential. Blending sharp wit and warm symphaty, stylistic brillance and tender insight, Persuasion represents the crowning achievement of Jane Austen's career, the final unfolding of her matchless art. As Marvin Mudrick writes: "The proper parochial society that for a quarter of a centry Jane Austen had been laughing at and amusing, despising and defending, at all events copiously memorializing, comes to its late flower in the unassuming grace, the finely balanced feelings, the secret strength and charm of character, of Anne Elloit."
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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
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The romantic clash of two opinionated young people provides the sustaining theme of Jane Austen's 1813 masterwork Pride and Prejudice.  Spirited Elizabeth Bennet is one oa family of five daugthers; with no male heir; the Bennet estate must someday pass to their priggish cousin Collins.  Therefore, the girls must marry well -- and the arrogant bachelor Mr Darcy is Elizabeth's  elusive match.  An entertaining portrait of matrimonial rites and rivalries, Pride and Prejudice is timeless in its hilarity and its honesty; readers will immediately understand why Austen herself called the book "my own darling child."  Margaret Drablle writes in her incisive introduction: "The elegance of this performance us almost beyong praise."
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All books are secondhand with yellowish pages, creases, and signs of oldness for a book, but all are in good condition with no torn pages and in plastic cover.
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