This edition prints all seven of Jane Austen's complete novels. It also offers Catharine , a key work of her youth; Lady Susan , which was unpublished in her lifetime; and the unfinshed novels The Watsons and Sanditon . Austen's scenes from English life and her diverse heroines - light-hearted, witty, wise, or patient - have delighted generations of readers. Her novels are much more than classics of provincial romance and intrigue, however; they explore the social and moral values of the early nineteenth century with elegantly barbed perception. All demonstrate irony, wit, and skill in charaterization, as well as faultless control, tone and narrative.