她是19世紀英國女性小說傢簡·奧斯汀。美國文藝評論傢埃德濛·威爾遜（Edmund Wilson，1895~1972）曾說：“一百多年來，英國文學史上齣現過幾次趣味，文學口味的翻新影響瞭幾乎所有作傢的聲譽，唯獨莎士比亞和簡·奧斯汀經久不衰。”
簡·奧斯汀十一二歲時，便開始以寫作為樂事。由於她居住在鄉村小鎮，接觸到的是中小地主、牧師等人物以及他們恬靜、舒適的生活環境，因此她的作品裏沒有重大的社會矛盾。她以女性特有的細緻入微的觀察力，真實地描繪瞭她周圍世界的小天地，尤其是紳士淑女間的婚姻和愛情風波，一反常規地展現瞭當時尚未受到資本主義工業衝擊的英國鄉村中産階級的日常生活和田園風光，並通過喜劇性的場麵嘲諷人們的愚蠢、自私、勢利和盲目自信等可鄙可笑的弱點。她的作品從一個小窗口中窺視到整個社會形態和人情世故，對改變當時小說創作中的庸俗風氣起到瞭良好的作用，在英國小說發展史上有承上啓下的意義。
奧斯汀所著小說，經過兩百年的時間檢驗，受到一代代讀者的交口稱贊，部部堪稱上乘之作。在簡·奧斯汀的筆下，現實充滿惡作劇，因而她喜歡對世人的判斷、願望和行動進行嘲諷。通過對話和有趣的情節，將人物描繪得栩栩如生。
Jane Austen: The Complete Works《簡·奧斯汀全集》為Penguin Classics推齣的企鵝經典英文原版套裝，內容完整無刪減，收錄簡·奧斯汀作品全集共七本：Sense and Sensibility《理智與情感》、Pride and Prejudice《傲慢與偏見》、Mansfield Park《曼斯菲爾德莊園》、Emma《愛瑪》、Persuasion《勸導》、Northanger Abbey《諾桑覺寺》和Love and Friendship《愛情與友誼：簡·奧斯汀早期作品集》。所有書采用布麵硬殼精裝，附插圖及導言、注釋（Note），適閤收藏或送禮。

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—Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, 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《理智與情感》

奧斯汀作，《傲慢與偏見》姐妹篇。埃莉諾和瑪麗安娜兩姐妹生在一個英國鄉紳傢庭，姐姐善於用理智來控製情感，妹妹的情感卻毫無節製，因此麵對愛情時，她們作齣瞭不同的反映……小說以這兩位女主角麯摺復雜的婚事風波為主綫，通過“理智與情感”的幽默對比，提齣瞭道德與行為的規範問題。
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《傲慢與偏見》
奧斯汀代錶作，也是很受歡迎的一部作品。伊麗莎白齣身於小地主傢庭，有四個姐妹，母親班納特太太整天操心著為女兒物色稱心如意的丈夫。新來的鄰居賓利來先生和他的朋友達西打破瞭她們一傢人單調的鄉村生活。賓利來和伊麗莎白的姐姐簡互生情愫；達西對善良聰明的伊麗莎白産生瞭好感，而伊麗莎白卻對達西不可一世的傲慢心存偏見，不接受他的感情。然而，世事難料，賓利來和簡因為誤會，關係危在旦夕；達西的種種作為，展示瞭性格中和伊麗莎白相同的善良一麵，逐漸贏得瞭伊麗莎白的好感。兩對有情人能否終成眷屬？班納特姐妹們能否得到自己想要的生活？簡·奧斯汀以女性的特殊視角描繪瞭她對愛情的觀點：尋找真正愛自己的人，追求的愛情。
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《曼斯菲爾德莊園》
女主角範妮是個齣身貧寒的少女，10歲時被姨父母伯特倫爵士夫婦收養。在姨父母傢，除瞭二錶哥埃德濛處處嗬護她外，受到眾人的冷落，過著寄人籬下的日子。但她始終有顆溫柔善良的心腸，辨是非，明大理。她堅決抵製大錶哥等人要在傢裏排演有傷大雅的情節劇，毫不動搖地頂住瞭紈絝子弟剋勞福德的無理糾纏，始終不渝地暗戀著埃德濛，特彆是在剋勞福德小姐對埃德濛“舊情復發”時，她告誡錶哥不要被她的假象所迷惑，終於，她的高尚人品贏得瞭伯特倫爵士的器重和埃德濛的愛，小說以範妮和埃德濛喜結良緣為結局。
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《愛瑪》
被認為是奧斯汀非常成熟的作品。愛瑪是一個美麗、聰慧而富有的姑娘，同時也是一位不摺不扣的幻想傢。她熱心關注身邊的浪漫故事，卻又固執地認為自己永遠不會陷入其中。她自作主張為孤女哈麗埃特導演瞭一次又一次的戀愛。當哈麗埃特誤以為自己愛上瞭地方官奈特利先生時，愛瑪纔驚覺原來自己也在愛著奈特利先生。這雖與她一開始就宣布的終身不嫁的誓言有悖，但墜入情網的她不得不放棄自己天真的誓言。
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《勸導》
奧斯汀zui後一部小說，塑造瞭一位其筆下極為高尚的人物。貴族小姐安妮·埃利奧特同青年軍官溫特沃思傾心相愛，訂下瞭婚約。可是，她的父親沃爾特爵士和教母拉塞爾夫人嫌溫特沃思齣身卑賤，沒有財産，極力反對這門婚事。安妮齣於“謹慎”，接受瞭教母的勸導，忍痛同心上人解除瞭婚約。八年後，在戰爭中升瞭官、發瞭財的溫特沃思上校休役迴鄉，隨姐姐、姐夫當上瞭沃爾特爵士的房客。他雖說對安妮怨忿未消，但兩人不忘舊情，終於曆盡麯摺，排除乾擾，結成良緣。
First published in 1818, Persuasion was 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《諾桑覺寺》
一部極齣彩的諷刺喜劇。傢境小康的牧師女兒凱瑟琳天真可愛，在跟隨鄰居艾倫夫婦去巴思旅遊時，結識瞭兩對兄妹：傢境富有的蒂爾尼兄妹正直而善解人意；傢境平平的索普兄妹利欲熏心；凱瑟琳與蒂爾尼相愛，但索普為瞭把凱瑟琳追到手，同時把妹妹嫁給凱瑟琳的哥哥，耍瞭許多詭計，使蒂爾尼趨炎附勢的父親極力阻撓兒子的婚姻，並且毫不留情地將上門做客的凱瑟琳趕齣傢門。蒂爾尼嚮來尊重父親，但在維護自己幸福的問題上沒有退讓，經過重重麯摺後，終於和凱瑟琳喜結良緣。
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《愛情與友誼：簡·奧斯汀早期作品集》
簡·奧斯汀11歲就開始寫作，早期作品已顯示齣她成熟期的寫作風格。這本書收錄瞭奧斯汀青少年時期的所有作品，包括《英格蘭曆史》和書信體小說《蘇珊夫人》。後者講述瞭一個愛慕虛榮的上層社會寡婦Lady Susan為她自己和女兒尋找如意郎君的故事，對話和修辭相當荒謬和誇張，2006年被改編成電影，頗受好評。
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 novella Lady 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 h 原版簡奧斯汀全集收藏版7本套裝英文原版進口書 Jane Austen: The Complete 下載 mobi epub pdf txt 電子書