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Jane Austen


Born
in Steventon Rectory, Hampshire, England, The United Kingdom
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 British 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: 4.15 · 8,328,415 ratings · 290,970 reviews · 3,229 distinct works • Similar authors
Pride and Prejudice
4.29 avg rating — 4,326,848 ratings — published 1813 — 17139 editions
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Sense and Sensibility
4.08 avg rating — 1,206,964 ratings — published 1811 — 21 editions
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Emma
4.05 avg rating — 898,806 ratings — published 1815 — 7948 editions
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Persuasion
4.15 avg rating — 712,724 ratings — published 1817 — 3530 editions
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Northanger Abbey
3.85 avg rating — 407,546 ratings — published 1817 — 5942 editions
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Mansfield Park
3.86 avg rating — 355,384 ratings — published 1814 — 19 editions
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Lady Susan
3.65 avg rating — 45,975 ratings — published 1871 — 2498 editions
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The Complete Novels
4.57 avg rating — 33,430 ratings — published 1981 — 75 editions
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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
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Jan. 2016 Revisit the Shelf -- Group Reread

1969, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, 215 pages
 
  25 votes, 17.6%

1935, Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier, 320 pages
 
  21 votes, 14.8%

1814, Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, 507 pages
 
  18 votes, 12.7%

1985, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, 311 pages
 
  17 votes, 12.0%

 
  17 votes, 12.0%

 
  12 votes, 8.5%

 
  11 votes, 7.7%

1953, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, 227 pages
 
  9 votes, 6.3%

1929, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, 293 pages
 
  8 votes, 5.6%

1951, The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk, 560 pages
 
  4 votes, 2.8%

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