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ENGLISH LITERATURE Dover Thrift Editions

FAVORITE JANE AUSTEN NOVELS : Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion (Complete and Unabridged), Jane Austen. Three of

the author’s most popular works — widely admired

for their satiric wit, subtlety, and perfection of style

— brilliantly re-create the provincial world of the

early-19th-century English countryside. 800pp. 5 3/16 x 8 1/4. 0-486-29748-9 $8.00

SANDITON AND THE WATSONS : Austen’s Unfinished Novels, Jane Austen. Two tantaliz-

ing incomplete stories revisit Austen’s customary

milieu of courtship and venture into new territory,

amid guests at a seaside resort. Both are worth

reading for pleasure and study. 112pp. 5 3/8 x 8 1/2. 0-486-45793-1 $5.95

LADY SUSAN , Jane Austen. Edited by R. W. Chapman. A beautiful, flirtatious widow seeks an

advantageous second marriage for herself and

pushes her long-suffering daughter into a dismal

match. A magnificently crafted novel of Regency

manners and mores, filled with wit and elegant

expression. 80pp. 5 3/8 x 8 1/2. 0-486-44407-4 $4.95

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY , Jane Austen. Delicious

comedy of manners concerning two sisters, who

appear to have been deserted by the young men

they had intended to marry. Humor, perception,

incomparable prose. 272pp. 5 3/16 x 8 1/4. 0-486-29049-2 $3.00

EMMA , Jane Austen. In one of Austen’s finest nov-

els, a lively young heiress takes up matchmaking

and creates comic confusion for a social-climbing

parson, a chatterbox spinster, an enigmatic Romeo,

and others in a 19th-century English village. 384pp. 5 3/16 x 8 1/4. 0-486-40648-2 $3.50

MANSFIELD PARK , Jane Austen. Dependent on

the benevolence of her aristocratic relatives, young

Fanny Price develops into the moral center of a

family gone astray. An entertaining study of the

interplay between manners, education, and ethics.

322pp. 5 3/16 x 8 1/4. 0-486-41585-6 $4.50

PERSUASION , Jane Austen. Thwarted romance

between Anne Elliot (Austen’s sweetest, most

appealing heroine) and Captain Frederick

Wentworth. Finely drawn characters, gentle sat-

ire, genteel life in the English countryside. 224pp. 5 3/16 x 8 1/4. 0-486-29555-9 $2.50

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE , Jane Austen. One of the

most universally loved and admired English novels,

an effervescent tale of rural romance transformed

by Jane Austen’s art into a witty, shrewdly observed

satire of English country life. 272pp. 5 3/16 x 8 1/4. 0-486-28473-5 $3.00

NORTHANGER ABBEY , Jane Austen. Spirited com-

edy of manners begins when Catherine Morland

meets and falls in love with a young clergyman and

is invited to be a guest at Northanger Abbey, the

family’s country estate. 192pp. 5 3/8 x 8 1/2. 0-486-41412-4 $3.50

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VIRGINIA WOOLF

JANE AUSTEN

THE VOYAGE OUT , Virginia Woolf. A moving depiction of the

thrills and confusion of youth, Woolf’s acclaimed first novel

traces a shipboard journey to South America for a captivat-

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MONDAY OR TUESDAY : Eight Stories, Virginia Woolf. Features “A Haunted House,” “A Society,” “An Unwritten

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work. 64pp. 5 3/16 x 8 1/4. 0-486-29453-6 $1.50

JACOB’S ROOM , Virginia Woolf. Brief impressions and con-

versations, internal monologues, and letters convey the story

of a lonely young man unable to reconcile his classical ideals

with the reality of World War I society. Sensitive exploration of

character and existence. 144pp. 5 3/16 x 8 1/4. 0-486-40109-X $3.00

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THE HAUNTED HOUSE Charles Dickens

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