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Jane Austen (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

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Jane Austen is best known for her six novels about middle-class life in the nineteenth century. Four were published during her lifetime: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1815). Northanger Abbey (1818) and Persuasion (1818) were published posthumously.

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Although she was not widely recognized in her own day, Jane Austen did enjoy the appreciation of discriminating readers whose contemporary esteem has since become the critical...

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