Jane Austen: which book should you start with?

The most accessible of the author's books in our catalogue.

Jane AustenNorthanger AbbeyA novel by Jane Austen, published in 1817, that gently mocks the tales of terror so widely read at the time. Catherine Morland, a seventeen-year-old clergyman’s daughter who devours such books, travels with neighbours to Bath, a spa town of balls and promenades. There she…Read bilingually →

• Sense and Sensibility
• Pride and Prejudice
• Emma
• Persuasion