
Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion
By Jane Austen
1996
First Published
603
Number of Pages
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, focusing, respectively, on husband-hunting mothers and daughters, the humbling of proud lovers, and the return of a once-rejected lover.