Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Love and Friendship. Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. Through her lively and spirited heroines and their surroundings, she paints vivid portraits of English middle-class life as the eighteenth century drew to a close. Each of the novels is a love story and a tale about marriage—marriage for love, for financial security, for social status. Yet they are not mere romance; ironic, comedic, and wise, they are masterful studies of the society that Jane Austen observed. The seven books in this box set contain some of the most brilliant, radiant prose in the English language.