书名：Jane Austen: The Complete Works (Hardcover)简·奥斯汀全集7本套装（布面精装版）

难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1100L
作者：Jane Austen简·奥斯汀
出版社名称：Penguin Classics
出版时间：2015
语种：英文
ISBN：9780141395203
商品尺寸：21 x 14.1 x 24.8 cm
包装：精装盒装
页数：3120

19世纪的时候，男性读者比女性更喜欢她；现在完全颠倒了。

她是19世纪英国女性小说家简·奥斯汀。美国著名文艺评论家埃德蒙·威尔逊（Edmund Wilson，1895~1972）曾说：“一百多年来，英国文学史上出现过几次趣味革命，文学口味的翻新影响了几乎所有作家的声誉，唯独莎士比亚和简·奥斯汀经久不衰。”
简·奥斯汀十一二岁时，便开始以写作为乐事。由于她居住在乡村小镇，接触到的是中小地主、牧师等人物以及他们恬静、舒适的生活环境，因此她的作品里没有重大的社会矛盾。她以女性特有的细致入微的观察力，真实地描绘了她周围世界的小天地，尤其是绅士淑女间的婚姻和爱情风波，一反常规地展现了当时尚未受到资本主义工业革命冲击的英国乡村中产阶级的日常生活和田园风光，并通过喜剧性的场面嘲讽人们的愚蠢、自私、势利和盲目自信等可鄙可笑的弱点。她的作品从一个小窗口中窥视到整个社会形态和人情世故，对改变当时小说创作中的庸俗风气起到了良好的作用，在英国小说发展史上有承上启下的意义。
奥斯汀所著小说，经过两百年的时间检验，受到一代代读者的交口称赞，部部堪称上乘之作。在简·奥斯汀的笔下，现实充满恶作剧，因而她喜欢对世人的判断、愿望和行动进行嘲讽。通过对话和有趣的情节，将人物描绘得栩栩如生。
Jane Austen: The Complete Works《简·奥斯汀全集》为Penguin Classics推出的企鹅经典英文原版套装，内容完整无删减，收录简·奥斯汀作品全集共七本：Sense and Sensibility《理智与情感》、Pride and Prejudice《傲慢与偏见》、Mansfield Park《曼斯菲尔德庄园》、Emma《爱玛》、Persuasion《劝导》、Northanger Abbey《诺桑觉寺》和Love and Friendship《爱情与友谊：简·奥斯汀早期作品集》。所有书采用布面硬壳精装，附插图及导言、注释（Note），适合收藏或送礼。

Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. Through her vivacious and spirited heroines and their circle, she painted vivid portraits of English middle-class life as the eighteenth century came to a close. Each of these novels is a love story and a story about marriage—marriage for love, for financial security, for social status. But they are not mere romances. Ironic, comic, and wise, they are masterly studies of the society Austen observed. The seven books in this box set—SenseandSensibility, PrideandPrejudice,Mansfield Park,Emma,NorthangerAbbey,Persuasion, and Love and Friendship (early writings and juvenilia)—contain some of the most brilliant, dazzling prose in the English language. Part of Penguin’s beautiful Hardcover Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
Sense and Sensibility《理智与情感》

奥斯汀处女作，《傲慢与偏见》姐妹篇。埃莉诺和玛丽安娜两姐妹生在一个英国乡绅家庭，姐姐善于用理智来控制情感，妹妹的情感却毫无节制，因此面对爱情时，她们作出了不同的反映……小说以这两位女主角曲折复杂的婚事风波为主线，通过“理智与情感”的幽默对比，提出了道德与行为的规范问题。
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor’s warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love—and its threatened loss—the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.

Pride and Prejudice《傲慢与偏见》
奥斯汀代表作，也是很受欢迎的一部作品。伊丽莎白出身于小地主家庭，有四个姐妹，母亲班纳特太太整天操心着为女儿物色称心如意的丈夫。新来的邻居宾利来先生和他的朋友达西打破了她们一家人单调的乡村生活。宾利来和伊丽莎白的姐姐简互生情愫；达西对善良聪明的伊丽莎白产生了好感，而伊丽莎白却对达西不可一世的傲慢心存偏见，不接受他的感情。然而，世事难料，宾利来和简因为误会，关系危在旦夕；达西的种种作为，展示了性格中和伊丽莎白相同的善良一面，逐渐赢得了伊丽莎白的好感。两对有情人能否终成眷属？班纳特姐妹们能否得到自己想要的生活？简·奥斯汀以女性的特殊视角描绘了她对爱情的观点：寻找真正爱自己的人，追求完美的爱情。
Pride and Prejudiceis a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of the British Regency. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman, Mr Bennet, living in Longbourn.
Set in England in the late 18th century, Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr and Mrs Bennet’s five unmarried daughters after two gentlemen have moved into their neighbourhood: the rich and eligible Mr Bingley, and his status-conscious friend, the even richer and more eligible Mr Darcy. While Bingley takes an immediate liking to the eldest Bennet daughter, Jane, Darcy is disdainful of local society and repeatedly clashes with the Bennets’ lively second daughter, Elizabeth.

Mansfield Park《曼斯菲尔德庄园》
女主角范妮是个出身贫寒的少女，10岁时被姨父母伯特伦爵士夫妇收养。在姨父母家，除了二表哥埃德蒙处处呵护她外，受到众人的冷落，过着寄人篱下的日子。但她始终有颗温柔善良的心肠，辨是非，明大理。她坚决抵制大表哥等人要在家里排演有伤大雅的情节剧，毫不动摇地顶住了纨绔子弟克劳福德的无理纠缠，始终不渝地暗恋着埃德蒙，特别是在克劳福德小姐对埃德蒙“旧情复发”时，她告诫表哥不要被她的假象所迷惑，终于，她的高尚人品赢得了伯特伦爵士的器重和埃德蒙的爱，小说以范妮和埃德蒙喜结良缘为结局。
Taken from the poverty of her parents’ home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle’s absence in Antigua, the Crawford’s arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life and a reckless taste for flirtation. Mansfield Park is considered Jane Austen’s first mature work and, with its quiet heroine and subtle examination of social position and moral integrity, one of her most profound.

Emma《爱玛》
被认为是奥斯汀非常成熟的作品。爱玛是一个美丽、聪慧而富有的姑娘，同时也是一位不折不扣的幻想家。她热心关注身边的浪漫故事，却又固执地认为自己永远不会陷入其中。她自作主张为孤女哈丽埃特导演了一次又一次的恋爱。当哈丽埃特误以为自己爱上了地方官奈特利先生时，爱玛才惊觉原来自己也在爱着奈特利先生。这虽与她一开始就宣布的终身不嫁的誓言有悖，但坠入情网的她不得不放弃自己天真的誓言。
As daughter of the richest, most important man in the small provincial village of Highbury, Emma Woodhouse is firmly convinced that it is her right—perhaps even her “duty”—to arrange the lives of others. Considered by most critics to be Austen’s most technically brilliant achievement, “Emma” sparkles with ironic insights into self-deception, self-discovery, and the interplay of love and power.

Persuasion《劝导》
奥斯汀zui后一部小说，塑造了一位其笔下极为高尚的人物。贵族小姐安妮·埃利奥特同青年军官温特沃思倾心相爱，订下了婚约。可是，她的父亲沃尔特爵士和教母拉塞尔夫人嫌温特沃思出身卑贱，没有财产，极力反对这门婚事。安妮出于“谨慎”，接受了教母的劝导，忍痛同心上人解除了婚约。八年后，在战争中升了官、发了财的温特沃思上校休役回乡，随姐姐、姐夫当上了沃尔特爵士的房客。他虽说对安妮怨忿未消，但两人不忘旧情，终于历尽曲折，排除干扰，结成良缘。
First published in 1818,Persuasionwas 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.

Northanger Abbey《诺桑觉寺》
一部极出彩的讽刺喜剧。家境小康的牧师女儿凯瑟琳天真可爱，在跟随邻居艾伦夫妇去巴思旅游时，结识了两对兄妹：家境富有的蒂尔尼兄妹正直而善解人意；家境平平的索普兄妹利欲熏心；凯瑟琳与蒂尔尼相爱，但索普为了把凯瑟琳追到手，同时把妹妹嫁给凯瑟琳的哥哥，耍了许多诡计，使蒂尔尼趋炎附势的父亲极力阻挠儿子的婚姻，并且毫不留情地将上门做客的凯瑟琳赶出家门。蒂尔尼向来尊重父亲，但在维护自己幸福的问题上没有退让，经过重重曲折后，终于和凯瑟琳喜结良缘。
During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who shares Catherine’s love of Gothic romance and horror, and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father’s mysterious house, Northanger Abbey. There, her imagination influenced by novels of sensation and intrigue, Catherine imagines terrible crimes committed by General Tilney. With its broad comedy and irrepressible heroine, this is the most youthful and optimistic of Jane Austen’s works.

Love and Friendship《爱情与友谊：简·奥斯汀早期作品集》
简·奥斯汀11岁就开始写作，早期作品已显示出她成熟期的写作风格。这本书收录了奥斯汀青少年时期的所有作品，包括《英格兰历史》和书信体小说《苏珊夫人》。后者讲述了一个爱慕虚荣的上层社会寡妇Lady Susan为她自己和女儿寻找如意郎君的故事，对话和修辞相当荒谬和夸张，2006年被改编成电影，颇受好评。
Jane Austen’s earliest writing dates from when she was just eleven-years-old, and already shows the hallmarks of her mature work. But it is also a product of the times in which she grew up—dark, grotesque, often surprisingly bawdy, and a far cry from the polished, sparkling novels of manners for which she became famous. Drunken heroines, babies who bite off their mothers’ fingers, and a letter-writer who has murdered her whole family all feature in these highly spirited pieces. This edition includes all of Austen’s juvenilia, including her “History of England” and the novellaLady Susan, in which the anti-heroine schemes and cheats her way through high society. With a title that captures a young Austen’s original idiosyncratic spelling habits and an introduction by Christine Alexander that shows how Austen was self-consciously fashioning herself as a writer from an early age, this is a must-have for any Austen lover.
简·奥斯汀（1775~1817），19世纪英国著名女性小说家。生于英国小乡镇史蒂文顿的一个牧师家庭，几乎从未接受过正规教育，但由于家庭文学空气熏陶而成为著名作家。其作品主要描绘她在狭小生活圈子里所熟悉的中产阶级的家庭生活，青年男女的恋爱婚姻及其心态，具有观察细致，人物刻画惟妙惟肖，评论尖刻等艺术特色。

主要代表作有《理智与情感》（1811）、《傲慢与偏见》（1813）、《曼斯菲尔德庄园》（1814）、《爱玛》（1815）、《诺桑觉寺》（1818）和《劝导》（1818）。
Jane Austen(1775-1817) was born in Hampshire, England, to George Austen, a rector, and his wife, Cassandra. Like many girls of her day, she was educated at home, where she began her literary career by writing parodies and skits for the amusement of her large family. Although Austen did not marry, she did have several suitors and once accepted a marriage proposal, but only for an evening. Although Austen never lived apart from her family, her work shows a worldly and wise sensibility. Her novels includeSense and Sensibility(1811),Pride and Prejudice(1813),Mansfield Park(1814),Emma(1815), andNorthanger AbbeyandPersuasion, published together posthumously in 1818.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families that he is considered the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.
“My dear Mr. Bennet,” said his lady to him one day. “have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?” Mr. Bennet replied that he had not.
“But it is,” returned she, “for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it.”
Mr. Bennet made no answer.
“Do you not want to know who has taken it?” cried his wife impatiently.
“You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.”
This was invitation enough.
“Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it, that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week.”
“What is his name?”
“Bingley.”
“Is he married or single?”
“Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!”
How so? How can it affect them?
“My dear Mr. Bennet,” replied his wife, “how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.”
“Is that his design in settling here?”
“Design! Nonsense, how can you talk so! But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes.”
“I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as beautiful as any of them. Mr. Bingley may like you the best of the party. ”