The Letters of Jane Austen

A widow with charm, no scruples and a daughter to marry off manipulates everyone within reach. Told entirely in letters, this short novel gives Austen her most enjoyable villain.

Jane Austen

Austen wrote this parody of sentimental romance when she was fourteen, and the jokes still land. A short burlesque in letters from her teenage notebooks.

Jane Austen

A mock history written at sixteen by, in her own words, a partial and prejudiced historian. Short, irreverent and the clearest early sign of the ironist she became.

Jane Austen

Emma Watson returns to a family she barely knows and a marriage market she cannot afford to lose. Austen abandoned the novel unfinished, and it breaks off with the story still opening up.

Jane Austen

Austen's last project, set in a seaside village being talked into fashion by its own speculators. She wrote eleven chapters before illness stopped her, and this is that fragment.

Jane Austen