Jane Austen, complete

Jane Austen published four novels in her lifetime, anonymously, and two more appeared the year she died. Six books, written between about 1795 and 1817, that have been in print continuously since the 1830s and are read now more than ever.

This page gathers all six in the order they were written, so far as that can be known: Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility began in the 1790s, Pride and Prejudice was drafted as “First Impressions” in 1796–97, and Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion belong to the last five years at Chawton. If you are new to Austen, Pride and Prejudice is the usual first book and Persuasion the one most often named as a favourite by readers who have read them all.

Every one is presented complete in a Bibliomancer edition — the full text, set anew, free to read online without an account, and available in print in the collection’s design. We use the texts as published; nothing is abridged or modernised, and we do not add invented introductions or “reviews”.