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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 · 8,862,083 ratings · 327,735 reviews · 3,857 distinct works • Similar authors
Pride and Prejudice
4.29 avg rating — 4,759,449 ratings — published 1813 — 17417 editions
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Sense and Sensibility
4.09 avg rating — 1,289,118 ratings — published 1811 — 3476 editions
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Emma
4.05 avg rating — 975,858 ratings — published 1815 — 8417 editions
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Persuasion
4.15 avg rating — 771,478 ratings — published 1817 — 99 editions
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Northanger Abbey
3.85 avg rating — 450,827 ratings — published 1817 — 6239 editions
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Mansfield Park
3.86 avg rating — 378,240 ratings — published 1814 — 5169 editions
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Lady Susan
3.66 avg rating — 52,567 ratings — published 1871 — 2626 editions
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The Complete Novels
4.57 avg rating — 33,988 ratings — published 1981 — 97 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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May 2016 Revisit the Shelf Reread

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, 311 pages, 1985
 
  41 votes, 18.6%

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 324 pages, 1960
 
  37 votes, 16.8%

Emma by Jane Austen, 474 pages, 1815
 
  21 votes, 9.5%

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 329 pages, 1856
 
  19 votes, 8.6%

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, 536 pages, 1980
 
  18 votes, 8.2%

 
  17 votes, 7.7%

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, 320 pages, 1719
 
  17 votes, 7.7%

 
  14 votes, 6.4%

The Awakening by Kate Chopin, 195 pages, 1899
 
  14 votes, 6.4%

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, 964 pages, 1878
 
  10 votes, 4.5%

 
  7 votes, 3.2%

 
  5 votes, 2.3%

220 total votes
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