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Jane Austen


Born
in Steventon Rectory, Hampshire, England
December 16, 1775

Died
July 18, 1817

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Genre
Fiction, Romance, Humor and Comedy

Influences
Frances Burney, Mary Brunton, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Mari ...more


Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage for the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works are an implicit critique of the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. Her deft use of social commentary, realism and biting irony have earned her acclaim among critics and scholars.

The anonymously published Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1816), were a modest success but br ...more

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Average rating: 4.18 · 8,862,713 ratings · 327,762 reviews · 3,857 distinct works • Similar authors
Pride and Prejudice
4.29 avg rating — 4,759,807 ratings — published 1813 — 17417 editions
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Sense and Sensibility
4.09 avg rating — 1,289,174 ratings — published 1811 — 2507 editions
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Emma
4.05 avg rating — 975,921 ratings — published 1815 — 34 editions
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Persuasion
4.15 avg rating — 771,528 ratings — published 1817 — 51 editions
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Northanger Abbey
3.85 avg rating — 450,853 ratings — published 1817 — 79 editions
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Mansfield Park
3.86 avg rating — 378,256 ratings — published 1814 — 5169 editions
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Lady Susan
3.66 avg rating — 52,575 ratings — published 1871 — 2626 editions
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The Complete Novels
4.57 avg rating — 33,984 ratings — published 1981 — 258 editions
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Love and Freindship
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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
tags: friendship, love
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“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
tags: books, library, reading
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Which movie adaptation of Jane Austen's PRIDE & PREJUDICE is your favorite? Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

2005 version starring Keira Knightley & Matthew McFayden
 
  224 votes, 51.6%

1995 version starring Colin Firth & Jennifer Ehle
 
  181 votes, 41.7%

Bride & Prejudice (starring Aishwarya Rai & Martin Henderson)
 
  9 votes, 2.1%

Bridget Jones's Diary (starring Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant & Colin Firth)
 
  7 votes, 1.6%

1940 version starring Greer Garson & Laurence Olivier
 
  4 votes, 0.9%

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (starring Lily James)
 
  4 votes, 0.9%

1980 version starring Elizabeth Garvie & David Rintoul
 
  3 votes, 0.7%

1967 version starring Celia Bannerman & Lewis Fiander
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Lost In Austen
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Pride and Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy (2003, starring Kam Heskin and Orlando Seale)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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