Jane Austin Boxed Set

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY:Sisters Marianne and Elinor couldn't be more different. Marianne is desperately romantic and longing to meet the man of her dreams, while Elinor takes a far more cautious approach to love.When the two of them move to the country with their family, miles away from London, there is little prospect of them finding anyone at all. But then they meet their new neighbours - including kind Edward Ferrers and the good-looking, dangerous Willoughby - and it seems happiness may be just round the corner after all. Things aren't always as they appear to be, though. Soon, both sisters will need to decide who to trust in their search for love: their family, their new friends, their heads - or their hearts? PERSUASION:Eight years ago, Anne rejected the man she loved because her friendsand family persuaded her that he wasn't rich or important enough. In all that time, she's never found anyone to match Captain Wentworth - and now he's back:successful, sophisticated and still single. Unfortunately for Anne, it's his turn to reject her With her snobbish father and spoiled sister always ready to embarrass her in polite society, and her refusal of Wentworth still fresh in everyone's mind, Anne wonders if she'll ever find the courage to follow her heart again. MANSFIELD PART: Fanny Price has always felt like an outsider. She was adopted by her uncle as a child and now lives in luxury at Mansfield Park, but doesn't fit in somehow. Shyer and much sweeter than the glamorous cousins she has grown up with, she feels she can only stand by and watch from the sidelines, never living her own life.Fanny won't admit - even to herself- who she really loves. Her uncle conducts the search for a husband as if it were a business deal, and when the time for Fanny to marry comes, will she be handed over on a handshake? Or will she have the strength to make her own mistakes - and finally find true happiness? PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: Lizzy's embarrassing mother is determined to pair her off as soon aspossible. But when she's introduced to the highly eligible bachelor Darcy, Lizzy decides he is Far too aloof for her liking. He, for his part, seems totally indifferent to her. Then she discovers that he's been meddling in her family's affairs, and is determined to dislike him more than ever.But what are Darcy's real motives? Is he more interested in Lizzy than he'll care to admit? And could pride stop them both from admitting what they really feel? EMMA:She's beautiful, rich and clever, and has decided she's perfectly happy with the single life. What Emma does love, however, is interfering in other people's business (and she is always convinced she's right). When she ignores the advice of her friend Mr Knightley and insists on matchmaking for her friend Harriet, her carefully laid plans go disastrously wrong.Is Emma so wrapped up in other people's love lives that she fails to spot happiness when it's right under her nose? Perhaps, when it comes to affairs of the heart, she can't control everything after all.