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Available
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Publication
Oxford University Press, USA (1988), Edition: 3rd, Hardcover, 2832 pages
Description
This complete set of the novels of Jane Austen is now reissued as a boxed set with handsome new jackets. Using the definitive text established by R.W. Chapman, with later revisions by distinguished scholars, the set presents the most authoritative and comprehensive edition available -invaluable for students and enthusiasts of Jane Austen's work. Each volume contains notes and appendices, and indexes of characters, and the set is illustrated with a charming selection of early nineteenth-century plates.
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LibraryThing member cozydell
A prized gift from my husband decades ago, this set has seen me through many Jane Austen talks and book club discussions. The supplemental materials are especially helpful in dealing with the vocabulary and social settings of 200 years ago. I'm personally quite fond of the Index of Characters and
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Places, which notes the family relationships among the characters in that novel. Show Less
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Physical description
2832 p.; 7.5 inches
ISBN
0192547070 / 9780192547071
Local notes
Includes: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey & Persuasion, and Minor Works. | Chapman has collated all the editions published in the author's lifetime and previously unpublished manuscripts, establishing an authoritative text that retains the punctuation, the spelling, and division into volumes of the originals. All six volumes feature early 19th-century illustrations as well as Chapman's detailed explanatory notes.