This omnibus edition has Austen’s four famous novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma. Her works can be considered both as romantic comedy and social satire.Austen gives us a deep psychological insight into the English society of those times. Her characters and events are based on people and circumstances which she happened to observe in real life.
In most of her novels, her characters correct theirflaws as a result of some suffering. In Sense and Sensibility, Austen makes the readers realize that sensibility, although wanted in all, should be balanced with good sense and judgment. Pride and Prejudice, her undoubted magnum opus, centers around the Bennet family,and the Bennet daughters’ search for suitable husbands.
This novel displays that reality should precede appearance, and deliberations precede impulse while forming options.Elizabeth relying on her impulses and the appearance of Fitzwilliam Darcy forms a negative opinion of him. During the course of time, delibrsation and reality changes her attitude and both end up getting married.
Mansfield Park introduces us to Fay Price, an intelligent and sensitive girl who comes to live with her aunt, Lady and Sir Bertram, and her cousins. Patronized by three of her cousins, she ultimately finds a friend in Edmund and marries him. The central theme of Emma is self-deception and the heroine, Emma Woodhouse is a total personification of the theme.
This novel describes the transformation of a domineering,self-centered meddler Emma, into a humbled woman ready for marriage, to the aptly named Mr.Knightly.
