| | |  | Amazon Kindle | Home » » » Jane Austen: The Complete Collection (With Active Table of Contents) | | | | | | | Description: | | Collected here are 14 of the most popular major and minor works of Jane Austen, dating from her youth to the final unfinished works of her later years. This Kindle version elegantly displays Austen's classic, refined, and beloved prose for your reading pleasure. Included are the following:
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Mansfield Park
Emma
Northanger Abbey
Persuasion
The Watsons
Sanditon
Lady Susan
Love and Friendship
Lesley Castle
The History of England
Collection of Letters
Scraps
Now you can navigate through the entire collection via a main table of contents as well as each book's individual chapter contents, so finding your place in this mega omnibus will never be a hassle again.
This file has been designed and formatted by hand for the Kindle (including its various apps.), ensuring that your reading experience will be smooth and seamless, complete with easy navigation.
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154 of 156 found the following review helpful:
 Beautiful Layout for This Classic CollectionFeb 19, 2010
By Karen Dyer
"Solo Respirare"
After checking out the other Kindle book collections that feature the writings of Jane Austen, I decided on this one because of three important things: 1. the cover grabbed me (really pretty and befitting of the era), 2. the layout was GREAT compared to the other Kindle versions I saw, where paragraphs were spaced weird and jagged on the right edge in some cases (or available illustrations were too small to even consider). The layout in this version makes for easy, comfortable reading, and the linked table of contents helps you to get around to the various books, and I just bookmark the chapters I like to reread or left off at. 3. The price is right. For under $3.00 you get all of Austen's important and minor writings, including unfinished ones that have only recently come back into print.
In short, while there are cheaper Kindle books of Jane Austen's works, this is a great Kindle book for the price, and the elegant layout really does make a difference. Well worth the purchase!
54 of 56 found the following review helpful:
This is what Kindle is all aboutDec 02, 2010
By Maxwell Johnson
"Cook, musician and teacher"
This is exactly the type of collection that makes the Kindle such a hit. It contains all the finished works of Austen, nicely laid out and all in one place. I'm not sure what one of the other reviewers was talking about when he said there were no chapter links because there are, and they work correctly. As yet another reviewer observed, the page layouts are clean and attractive, not always the case when large volumes of literature that will never make huge profits are ported to the Kindle or other book readers.
For Austen fans, having this collection at their fingertips will be more than worth the tiny cost. Highly recommended.
34 of 37 found the following review helpful:
 you get what you pay forSep 03, 2011
By Chris Reader
"dc reader"
It's great to get all these novels on Kindle for 99 cents. But be aware that they are filled with typos - the kind that a spell-checker can't catch. At least that's true in Sense and Sensibility, the only one I've read so far. There's a typo on roughly every 4th or 5th page. But it can be fun to try to figure out what the word(s) should be from the context. Some are not very obvious.
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Tales of JaneJun 16, 2011
By E. A Solinas
"ea_solinas"
Jane Austen. Her name is practically synonymous with classic, understated romance, as well as comedies of manners with a subtle, sly sense of humor. And "Jane Austen: The Complete Collection" brings together the full complement of Austen's, from her little-known nonfiction to the classic bestseller "Pride and Prejudice" (and everything in between) -- lots of lovably flawed heroines, beautiful formal prose, and some rather unconventional love stories.
The collection includes Austen's most famous six novels, which explore love, societal demands, honor and independent thought -- a girl meddling in people's lives, two sisters with completely different romantic approaches, an "old maid" whose fiance returns to England, a poor relation whose moral standards are challenges, a hyper-romantic gothic-novel fan whose imagination runs amuck, and a slow-blooming love between a proud man and a prejudiced woman.
That's normally where people's acquaintance with Austen ends. But she actually wrote a number of other things -- a brilliantly manipulative widow who seduces, plots and schemes; her "History of England"; two unfinished novels, "The Watsons" and "Sanditon"; some letters; and some bits of her juvenalia, including some funny early spoofs and her "scraps."
This collection displays the range and depth of Austen's writing skill beautifully; though each story is very unique they're laced together by common themes. Her main novels are all love stories, tempered with some clever commentary on the society of Austen's day (example: entailment), and a biting, sharp-edged wit. But we also see her more openly comedic side ("Love and Freindship," a parody she wrote early on).
And despite the formal stuffiness of the time, Austen's writing was brilliant -- there's a bit of roughness in "Lady Susan" and "Persuasion," but nothing too dramatic. Each one has powerful emotions and vivid splashes of prose ("The wind roared round the house, and the rain beat against the windows"), as well as deliciously witty dialogue ("I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine"). But she also writes some intensely romantic moments as well ("Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you").
Austen also had an interesting range of heroines -- quiet ones, melodramatic ones, intelligent ones, naive ones, and mildly spoiled ones who think they know best. But each one has a major character flaw that must be overcome before she can find true love and happiness And she has an equally fascinating range of love interests: quiet, shy older men, sexy clever ones, blunt ones, generous honest ones, and especially the smart, sexy Mr. Darcy (who has a flaw of his own to overcome alongside Lizzie).
"Jane Austen: The Complete Collection" draws together almost all the work that Jane Austen ever produced, and let readers explore the mannered society and obstacle-filled love lives of her heroines. Brilliant, and a must-read for any reader.
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Jane Austin fanMar 07, 2010
By T. Mein
Great to be able to purchase the complete works and what a bargain. Read them over and over.
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