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Written by Jane Austen - Audio book performed by Juliet Stevenson & Teresa Gallagher with classical music of the period - Abridged Fiction - 10 COMPACT DISCS - 12 hours

Publisher, Naxos Audiobooks (September 2000)

The award-winning series of Jane Austen novels on Naxos Audiobooks - in distinctive productions with music of the period - are now available repackaged with new covers and collected into two boxed sets. Volume 1 includes Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, and Jane Austen's Biography. The second will be released in 2001 and will include the unfinished novels Sanditon, Lady Susan and The Watsons.

EMMA

The printed version of this title was selected by The New York Review of Books' "Reader's Catalog" as one of the 40,000+ Best Books in Print!

Arrogant, self-willed and egotistical, Emma is Jane Austen's most unusual heroine. Her interfering ways and inveterate matchmaking are at once shocking and comic. She is handsome, clever and rich and has a disposition to think too well of herself. When she decides to introduce the humble Harriet Smith to the delights of genteel society and to find her a suitable husband, she precipitates herself and her immediate circle into a web of misunderstanding and intrigue, from which no-one emerges unchanged.

MANSFIELD PARK

The printed version of this title was selected by The New York Review of Books' "Reader's Catalog" as one of the 40,000+ Best Books in Print!

At the tender age of ten, Fanny Price is 'adopted' by her rich relations and is removed from the povorty of her home in Portsmouth to the opulence of Mansfield Park. The transplantation is not a happy one. Dependent, neglected and forgotten, Fanny struggles to come to terms with her new life until, tested almost to the limits of endurance, she assumes her rightful role...

NORTHANGER ABBEYThe printed version of this title was selected by The New York Review of Books' "Reader's Catalog" as one of the 40,000+ Best Books in Print!

When Catherine Morland, a country clergyman's daughter, is invited to spend a season in Bath with the fashionable high society, little does she imagine the delights and perils that await her. Captivated and disconcerted by what she finds, and introduced to the joys of "Gothic novels" by her new friend, Isabella, Catherine longs for mystery and romance. When she is invited to stay with the beguiling Henry Tilney and his family at Northanger Abbey, she expects mystery and intrigue at every turn. However, the truth turns out to be even stranger than fiction...