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Mr and Mrs Bennet have five daughters, no sons and a property entailed to a male cousin: at least one good marriage is necessary, but between Elizabeth Bennet’s hasty judgements, Mr Darcy’s prideful demeanour and misunderstandings all round, the prospects are limited.

Some years before the story begins, Anne Elliot had been engaged to Frederick Wentworth, a naval officer, but was persuaded by an aunt to break it off. They meet again, Anne still in love with Wentworth, but unable to declare her feelings or deny them by accepting another man’s proposal.

Clever, self-satisfied and interfering, Emma Woodhouse is determined to arrange marriages for her friends, while avoiding one for herself; but the matchmaking finds both Emma and her protégé, poor Harriet, caught in a web of misunderstandings.

The three titles included in this set are: Through the Looking Glass (Read more...) A Tale of Two Cities (Read more...) Persuasion (Read more...)

Jane Austen explores the psychology of romantic love as she tells the story of Mrs Dashwood and her daughters Elinor and Marianne – one full of good sense, the other prone to romantic notions.

Some years before the story begins, Anne Elliot had been engaged to Frederick Wentworth, a naval officer, but was persuaded by an aunt to break it off. They meet again, Anne still in love with Wentworth, but unable to declare her feelings or deny them by accepting another man’s proposal. Age 12+

From the age of eleven, Jane Austen was writing short pieces of fiction, poetry and drama, often parodying contemporary novels and at times violent and risqué. She copied some of these stories into notebooks – ‘Volumes’ – for family and friends to read. This book presents a photographic facsimile of the first of the three surviving notebooks, offering a rare and sometimes quite shocking introduction to the young Austen, along with an introduction, ‘A Writer’s Apprenticeship’, by Kathryn Sutherland.

Anna Bentinck reads two short works: the abandoned story of Mr Watson, a widowed clergyman with two sons and four daughters; and Austen’s last, unfinished novel about society in a new, commercial seaside town, Sanditon. Unabridged.

Jenny Agutter reads this abridgement of Jane Austen’s ingenious tale of the five Bennet girls, single men in possession of good fortunes and misunderstandings all round.

Jenny Agutter reads a condensed version of Austen’s best-loved story of the five Bennett girls and single men in possession of good fortunes. This Young Adult Classics set includes a CD-ROM study guide.

Jane Austen explores the psychology of romantic love as she tells the story of Mrs Dashwood and her daughters Elinor and Marianne – one full of good sense, the other prone to romantic notions.

Mr and Mrs Bennet have five daughters, no sons and a property entailed to a male cousin. At least one ‘good marriage’ is necessary, but with Elizabeth’s hasty judgements, Mr D’Arcy’s prideful demeanour and misunderstandings all round – can it ever be achieved?