Brief Description:
A set of all the volumes in the edition, comprising Austen's complete works and a volume of contextual essays.

Review Quotes:
"Need hard-pressed college libraries spend hundred of dollars on the new Cambridge Jane Austen set? The answer is yes - and the sooner the better." --Choice

Table of Contents:
Juvenilia edited by Peter Sabor; Northanger Abbey edited by Barbara Benedict and Deirdre Le Faye; Sense and Sensibility edited by Edward Copeland; Pride and Prejudice edited by John Wiltshire; Emma edited by Richard Cronin and Dorothy McMillan; Persuasion edited by Janet Todd and Antje Blank; Later manuscripts edited by Janet Todd and Linda Bree; Jane Austen in Context edited by Janet Todd.

Review Quotes:
"This first three-volume set in Cambridge's new Austen series includes two of her best titles plus a collection of essays about her work. The novels are fully annotated and include scholarly introductions covering the context and publication history of each novel, plus explanatory notes on the texts. The series eventually will include nine volumes." -- Library Journal

Review Quotes:
"The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen performs an admirable service for readers - and particularly scholars - of Austen. It is a service that will no doubt last for generations to come." -- Editionen in der Kritik

Review Quotes:
"...certain to be the standard critical edition of all Austen's works." -Times Literary Supplement

Contributor Bio:Todd, Janet
Janet Todd is President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge.