The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen 8 Volume Paperback Set

The first modern, fully annotated edition of the works of Jane Austen is here published complete in eight volumes. Six volumes on the published novels - Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion - are accompanied by two devoted to Austen's manuscripts, her brilliant juvenile writing and the unpublished work of her adulthood. Each is edited by leading Austen scholars, and includes comprehensive information on the circumstances of the creation and publication of the work concerned, and its critical reception, together with textual and explanatory notes. Together these volumes complete the picture - as far as we now have it - of the work of one of the greatest, as well as best-loved, British novelists.Includes all 3 volumes of Juvenilia, plus Later Manuscripts, comprising:Lady SusanThe WatsonsSanditonJane Austen on Fiction ("To Mrs. Hunter of Norwich," "Letters on Fiction to Anna Lefroy," "Plan of a Novel, according to hints from various quarters," "Opinions of Mansfield Park," "Opinions of Emma")Poems and CharadesAppendices, including "Sir Charles Grandison," "Prayers," "Attributed poems," and "Family poems."