Jane Austen: A Linked Index of All PG Editions of Jane Austen

This is not merely a greatest-hits collection. It is the entire surviving literary output of Jane Austen, from her earliest teenage exercises in parody to the unfinished fragments she left behind at thirty-one. Here are the six novels that have enchanted readers for two centuries, but here too are the works she never published in her lifetime: Lady Susan, the wicked early novella about a predatory beauty; The Watsons, abandoned at eighteen; Sanditon, begun weeks before her death. Her juvenile manuscripts, Love and Friendship and Lesley Castle, reveal a young writer already mastering irony and social observation. Every draft, every scrap, every imperfect beginning is included. For the reader who has finished Persuasion and cannot let go, who wants to trace the evolution of Austen's mind from playful adolescence to profound late maturity, this collection offers what no single novel can: the complete architecture of one of English literature's finest intelligences.