“R.W. Chapman’s fine new edition has, among its other merits, the advantage of waking the Jane Austenite up…. The novels continue to live their own wonderful internal life…freshened and enriched by contact with the life of facts. His illustrations are beyond all praise.”–E.M. Forster, Abinger Harvest. This beautiful set provides the definitive text of Austen’s six great comic masterpieces and her minor works (the latter include three high-spirited efforts written at about age fifteen; a charming fragment, The Watsons, which has been thought to be a sketch for Emma; and a tantalizing fragment, Sanditon, written in the last year of her life). All six volumes feature splendid early 19th-century illustrations as well as Chapman’s detailed
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