Jane Austen

Follow to get new release updates and improved recommendations

About Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775 at Steventon near Basingstoke, the seventh child of the rector of the parish. She lived with her family at Steventon until they moved to Bath when her father retired in 1801. After his death in 1805, she moved around with her mother; in 1809, they settled in Chawton, near Alton, Hampshire. Here she remained, except for a few visits to London, until in May 1817 she moved to Winchester to be near her doctor. There she died on July 18, 1817. As a girl Jane Austen wrote stories, including burlesques of popular romances. Her works were only published after much revision, four novels being published in her lifetime. These are Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma(1816). Two other novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, were published posthumously in 1818 with a biographical notice by her brother, Henry Austen, the first formal announcement of her authorship. Persuasion was written in a race against failing health in 1815-16. She also left two earlier compositions, a short epistolary novel, Lady Susan, and an unfinished novel, The Watsons. At the time of her death, she was working on a new novel, Sanditon, a fragmentary draft of which survives.

Are you an author?

Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography.

Learn more at Author Central

1 11 1

$3.99

Kindle Edition
$2.99

Kindle Edition
$0.99

Kindle Edition
$0.49

Kindle Edition
$2.99

Kindle Edition
$2.99

Kindle Edition
$3.99

Kindle Edition
$9.99

Kindle Edition
$11.99

Kindle Edition
$4.99

Kindle Edition
$2.99

Kindle Edition
$1.99

Kindle Edition

Titles By Jane Austen

All Formats Kindle Edition Audible Audiobook Audio CD See more

Pride and Prejudice Apr 19, 2021

by Jane Austen

( 22,218 )

$3.99

Since its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work “her own darling child” and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, “as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print.” The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. And Jane Austen’s radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England.

Among the writers who have approached nearest to the manner of the great master, we have no hesitation in placing Jane Austen. —Thomas Macaulay
‘Pride and Prejudice’ is the best novel in the language. —Anthony Trollope
I used to think that men did everything better than women, but that was before I read Jane Austen. I don’t think any man ever wrote better than Jane Austen. —Rex Stout
Elizabeth Bennet has but to speak, and I am at her knees. —Robert Louis Stevenson
Read again, and for the third time at least, Miss Austen’s very finely written novel of ‘Pride and Prejudice.’ That young lady has a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. —Sir Walter Scott

Other Formats: Kindle , Audible Audiobook , Hardcover , Paperback , Mass Market Paperback , MP3 CD , Multimedia CD

The Complete Works of Jane Austen: (In One Volume) Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady ... Sandition, and the Complete Juvenilia Apr 19, 2021

by Jane Austen

( 1,027 )

$2.99

This book contains the complete novels of Jane Austen in the chronological order of their original publication.

- Lady Susan
- Sense and Sensibility
- Pride and Prejudice
- Mansfield Park
- Emma
- Persuasion
- Northanger Abbey
- The Watsons
- Sanditon

Other Formats: Kindle , Paperback

Classic Authors Super Set Series 1: (Shandon Press): Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, , H.P Lovecraft,Robert E. Howard… Mar 30, 2021

by Mark Twain , Charles Dickens , Edgar Allan Poe , H.P. Lovecraft , Jane Austen , Robert E. Howard , Arthur Conan Doyle , Zane Grey

( 116 )

$0.99

Contents:

- Jane Austen: The Complete Novels
- Charles Dickens: The Complete Novels
- Zane Grey: The Collected Works
- Robert E. Howard: The Collected Works
- H.P Lovecraft: The Complete fICTIONS
- Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Tales and poems
- Mark Twain: The Complete Novels

50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1 (2021 Edition) Feb 23, 2021

by Joseph Conrad , D. H. Lawrence , George Eliot , Leo Tolstoy , James Joyce , Charles Dickens , Jane Austen , Bram Stoker , Oscar Wilde , DxBooks , Edgar Allan Poe , H.P Lovecraft , Dante Alighieri , Honoré de Balzac , Anne Brontë , Emily Brontë , Samuel Butler , Miguel de Cervantes , Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Arthur Conan Doyle , Alexandre Dumas

( 611 )

$0.49

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names

- The Divine Comedy [Dante Alighieri]
- Emma [Jane Austen]
- Persuasion [Jane Austen]
- Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen]
- Father Goriot [Honoré de Balzac]
- Jane Eyre [Charlotte Brontë]
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall [Anne Brontë]
- Wuthering Heights [Emily Brontë]
- The Way of All Flesh [Samuel Butler]
- Don Quixote [Miguel de Cervantes]
- Heart of Darkness [Joseph Conrad]
- Nostromo [Joseph Conrad]
- Moll Flanders [Daniel Defoe]
- Bleak House [Charles Dickens]
- Great Expectations [Charles Dickens]
- The Brothers Karamazov [Fyodor Dostoyevsky]
- Crime and Punishment [Fyodor Dostoyevsky]
- The Idiot [Fyodor Dostoyevsky]
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle]
- The Count of Monte Cristo [Alexandre Dumas]
- Daniel Deronda [George Eliot]
- Middlemarch [George Eliot]
- Madame Bovary [Gustave Flaubert]
- The Yellow Wallpaper [Charlotte Perkins Gilman]
- Dead Souls [Nikolai Gogol]
- Grimm's Fairy Tales [The Brothers Grimm]
- The Iliad [Homer]
- The Odyssey [Homer]
- Les Misérables [Victor Hugo]
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving
- The Portray of a Lady [Henry James]
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [James Joyce]
- Sons and Lovers [D. H. Lawrence]
- The Phantom of the Opera [Gaston Leroux]
- The Call of the Wild [Jack London]
- The Great God Pan [Arthur Machen]
- Moby Dick [Herman Melville]
- Swann's Way [Marcel Proust]
- Frankenstein [Mary Shelley]
- The Red and the Black [Stendhal]
- The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde [Robert Louis Stevenson]
- Dracula [Bram Stoker]
- The Art of War [Sun Tzu]
- Gulliver's Travels [Jonathan Swift]
- Vanity Fair [William Makepeace Thackeray]
- Anna Karenina [Leo Tolstoy]
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich [Leo Tolstoy]
- War and Peace [Leo Tolstoy]
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Mark Twain]
- The Picture of Dorian Gray [Oscar Wilde]

Other Formats: Audible Audiobook

Sense and Sensibility (AmazonClassics Edition) Sep 5, 2017

by Jane Austen

( 5,062 )

$2.99

After the death of their father, sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood face financial ruin. At the mercy of their half brother, John, and his greedy wife, their only hope is to make a good match. But reduced circumstances make courtship difficult—especially after being turned out of their home. While responsible Elinor takes a practical approach to matters of the heart, Marianne throws herself in unreservedly.

In Jane Austen’s first novel, two of literature’s most iconic characters discover that love demands a balance of passion and pragmatism.

AmazonClassics brings you timeless works from the masters of storytelling. Ideal for anyone who wants to read a great work for the first time or rediscover an old favorite, these new editions open the door to literature’s most unforgettable characters and beloved worlds.

Revised edition: Previously published as Sense and Sensibility, this edition of Sense and Sensibility (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

Other Formats: Kindle , Audible Audiobook , Hardcover , Paperback , Mass Market Paperback , MP3 CD , Flexibound

This title and over 1 million more available with Kindle Unlimited.

Persuasion Apr 19, 2021

by Jane Austen

( 3,927 )

$2.99

First published in 1818, Persuasion was Jane Austen’s last work. Its mellow character and autumnal tone have long made it a favorite with Austen readers. Set in Somersetshire and Bath, the novel revolves around the lives and love affair of Sir Walter Elliot, his daughters Elizabeth, Anne, and Mary, and various in-laws, friends, suitors, and other characters, In Anne Elliot, the author created perhaps her sweetest, most appealing heroine.
At the center of the novel is Anne’s thwarted romance with Captain Frederick Wentworth, a navy man Anne met and fell in love with when she was 19. At the time, Wentworth was deemed an unsuitable match and Anne was forced to break off the relationship. Eight years later, however, they meet again. By this time Captain Wentworth has made his fortune in the navy and is an attractive “catch.” However, Anne is now uncertain about his feelings for her. But after various twists and turns of fortune, the novel ends on a happy note.
In Persuasion, as in such novels as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, Austen limned the plight of young women who could escape the constraints of family life only by marrying, and suggest the foolishness of women who believed they were free and not dependent on the financial and social resources of men. At the same time, Persuasion offers an ironic and subtle paean to the true love that enables one woman to rise above straitened economic circumstances and the stifling social conventions that restricted women to narrowly circumscribed lives in the common sitting room.
Sure to appeal to admirers of Jane Austen, Persuasion will delight any reader with its finely drawn characters, gentle satire, and charming re-creation of the genteel world of the 19th-century English countryside.

Anne Elliot must have been Jane Austen herself, speaking for the last time. There is something so true, so womanly about her, that it is impossible not to love her. She is the bright-eyed heroine of the earlier novels matured, chastened, cultivated, to whom fidelity has brought only greater depth and sweetness instead of bitterness and pain. —Anne Thackeray Ritchie
The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste. —Virginia Woolf

Other Formats: Kindle , Audible Audiobook , Hardcover , Paperback , Mass Market Paperback , MP3 CD , Flexibound

Emma Apr 19, 2021

by Jane Austen

( 4,624 )

$3.99

When her former governess finds happiness as the bride of a local widower, the brilliant and beautiful Emma Woodhouse — one of Jane Austen’s immortal creations — flatters herself that she alone has secured the marriage and that she possesses a special talent for bringing lovers together. The young heiress next busies herself with finding a suitable husband for her friend and protégé, Harriet Smith, setting off an entertaining sequence of comic mishaps and misunderstanding in this sparkling comedy of English-village romance. Beneath its considerable wit, the novel is also the story of a young woman’s progress toward self-understanding.
“Emma” abounds in the droll character sketches at which Jane Austen excelled. In addition to the well-intentional heroine and her hypochondriacal father, the village of Highbury during the Regency period is populated by an amusing circle of friends and family — kindhearted but tedious Miss Bates, a chatterbox spinster; ambitious Mr. Elton, a social-climbing parson; Frank Churchill, an enigmatic Romeo; Mr. Knightley, Emma’s brother-in-law and the voice of her better nature; and a cluster of other finely drawn, unforgettable personalities.
The author’s skill at depicting the follies of human nature in a manner both realistic and affectionate elevates this tale of provincial matchmaking to the heights of scintillating satire.

Of all great writers, Jane Austen is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness. —Virginia Woolf
Jane Austen’s masterpiece. —Rex Stout
Jane Austen is my favourite author! I read and reread, the mouth open and the mind closed. —E. M. Forster
How could these novels ever seem remote... the gaiety is unextinguished today, the irony has kept its bite, the reasoning is still sweet, the sparkle undiminished, as comedies they are irresistibly and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be. —Eudora Welty
It is the cleverest of books. I especially love the dialogue — every speech reveals the characters’ obsessions and preoccupations, yet it remains perfectly natural... absolutely gripping. —Susannah Clarke

Other Formats: Kindle , Audible Audiobook , Hardcover , Paperback , Mass Market Paperback , MP3 CD , Flexibound

Sanditon: Austen's Last Novel Dec 3, 2019

by Jane Austen , Another Lady

( 496 )

$9.99

Jane Austen’s last work, now a PBS limited series adapted by acclaimed screenwriter Andrew Davies.

Sanditon—an eleven-chapter fragment left at Jane Austen’s death completed by an Austen devotee and novelist— is a charming addition to Austen’s novels on England’s privileged classes and the deception, snobbery, and unexpected romances that occur in their world. When Charlotte Heywood accepts an invitation to visit the newly fashionable seaside resort of Sanditon, she is introduced to a full range of polite society, from reigning local dowager Lady Denham to her impoverished ward Clara, and from the handsome, feckless Sidney Parker to his amusing, if hypochondriac, sisters. A heroine whose clear-sighted commens sense is often at war with romance, Charlotte cannot help observing around her both folly and passion in many guises. But can the levelheaded Charlotte herself resist the desires of the heart?

Other Formats: Audible Audiobook , Hardcover , Paperback

Sanditon Dec 10, 2019

by Jane Austen , Kate Riordan

( 362 )

$11.99

In the vein of Downton Abbey, Jane Austen's beloved but unfinished masterpiece--often considered her most modern and exciting novel--gets a spectacular second act in this tie-in to a major new limited television series.

Written only months before Austen's death in 1817, Sanditon tells the story of the joyously impulsive, spirited and unconventional Charlotte Heywood and her spiky relationship with the humorous, charming (and slightly wild!) Sidney Parker. When a chance accident transports her from her rural hometown of Willingden to the would-be coastal resort of the eponymous title, it exposes Charlotte to the intrigues and dalliances of a seaside town on the make, and the characters whose fortunes depend on its commercial success. The twists and turns of the plot, which takes viewers from the West Indies to the rotting alleys of London, exposes the hidden agendas of each character and sees Charlotte discover herself... and ultimately find love.

Other Formats: Audible Audiobook , Paperback

Orgullo y prejuicio (Los mejores clásicos) (Spanish Edition) Jun 11, 2015

by Jane Austen

( 1,158 )

$4.99

Publicada originalmente en 1813, Orgullo y prejuicio es una de las obras maestras de la literatura inglesa de todos los tiempos.

A lo largo de una trama que discurre con gran ritmo y precisión, Jane Austen reúne una galería de personajes característicos de toda una época: la dama empeñada en casar a sus hijas con el mejor partido de la región, las hermanas que se debaten con sus vaivenes sentimentales, el clérigo adulador que peca de oportunista... El estudio de caracteres y el análisis de las relaciones humanas basadas en la costumbre, elementos esenciales de la narrativa de la autora, alcanzan en Orgullo y prejuicio cotas de maestría insuperable.

La presente edición incluye una detallada cronología de la autora. Asimismo, recupera la introducción original en Penguin Clásicos de Tony Tanner, que desarrolló su carrera como catedrático de literatura inglesa y norteamericana en la Universidad de Cambridge, y cuyas agudas reflexiones sobre Jane Austen son la mejor guía para adentrarse en el universo literario de esta autora.

«Mi locura no ha sido el amor sino la vanidad.»

Other Formats: Audible Audiobook , Hardcover , Paperback , Mass Market Paperback , MP3 CD

50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2 (2021 Edition) Feb 23, 2021

by Lewis Carroll , Mark Twain , Jules Verne , Oscar Wilde , Arthur Conan Doyle , H.P. Lovecraft , Louisa May Alcott , Jane Austen , DXBooks , J.M. Barrie , B. M. Bower , Frances Hodgson Burnett , Robert William Chambers , G.K. Chesterton , Wilkie Collins , Charles Darwin , Daniel Defoe , Margaret Deland , Charles Dickens , Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Alexandre Dumas , Francis Scott Fitzgerald , E. M. Forster , Sigmund Freud , Thomas Hardy , Hermann Hesse , James Joyce , Andrew Lang , Jack London , Lucy Maud Montgomery , Friedrich Nietzsche , Edgar Allan Poe , Marcel Proust , William Shakespeare , Robert Louis Stevenson , William Strunk Jr. , Vatsyayana , H.G. Wells , Virginia Woolf

( 162 )

$2.99

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names

- Little Women [Louisa May Alcott]
- Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen]
- Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie]
- Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower]
- The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett]
- A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett]
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll]
- The King in Yellow [Robert William Chambers]
- The Man Who Knew Too Much [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
- The Woman in White [Wilkie Collins]
- On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition [Charles Darwin]
- Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]
- The Iron Woman [Margaret Deland]
- David Copperfield [Charles Dickens]
- Oliver Twist [Charles Dickens]
- A Tale of Two Cities [Charles Dickens]
- The Double [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
- The Hound of the Baskervilles [Arthur Conan Doyle]
- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle]
- The Three Musketeers [Alexandre Dumas]
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [Francis Scott Fitzgerald]
- A Room with a View [E. M. Forster]
- Dream Psychology [Sigmund Freud]
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles [Thomas Hardy]
- Siddhartha [Hermann Hesse]
- Dubliners [James Joyce]
- The Arabian Nights [Andrew Lang]
- The Sea Wolf [Jack London]
- The Call of Cthulhu [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
- Anne of Green Gables [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
- Beyond Good and Evil [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue [Edgar Allan Poe]
- The Black Cat [Edgar Allan Poe]
- The Raven [Edgar Allan Poe]
- The Fall of the House of Usher [Edgar Allan Poe]
- Swann's Way [Marcel Proust]
- Romeo and Juliet [William Shakespeare]
- Treasure Island [Robert Louis Stevenson]
- The Elements of Style [William Strunk Jr.]
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer [Mark Twain]
- The Prince and the Pauper [Mark Twain]
- The Kama Sutra [Vatsyayana]
- A Journey into the Center of the Earth [Jules Verne]
- The Mysterious Island [Jules Verne]
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea [Jules Verne]
- The War of the Worlds [H. G. Wells]
- The Time Machine [H. G. Wells]
- The Star [H.G Wells]
- The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
- The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf

Other Formats: Kindle

Mansfield Park Apr 19, 2021

by Jane Austen

( 2,978 )

$1.99

After her impoverished family sends her to live with her wealthy aunt and uncle at opulent Mansfield Park, Fanny Price finds her life forever changed by the aristocratic Bertrams and the city-dwelling Crawford siblings. But is it for the better? While the others seem content to abandon what’s right to further their own interests, Fanny decides to hold true to her heart—a choice that will make or break her future.

Mansfield Park is largely considered to be one of Jane Austen’s most ambitious novels, a darkly satirical glimpse into morality and social mobility within the nineteenth-century British class system.

Other Formats: Kindle , Audible Audiobook , Hardcover , Paperback , Mass Market Paperback , MP3 CD , Flexibound

More Information

Are you an author? Visit Author Central to change your photo, edit your biography, and more

See Author Pages Frequently Asked Questions

Anything else? Provide feedback about this page

Similar authors to follow

About Jane Austen

Customers Also Bought Items By

Are you an author?

More Information